Music Vocab Quiz 5

A series of notes into which the octave is divided according to a specific system. The major and minor scales are modes.

An Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness and purity of tone.

A stylized close in music which divides the music into periods or bring it to full conclusion.

Strict counterpoint in which each voice exactly imitates the previous voice at a fixed distance.

Singing or performing in a melodious and graceful style, full of expression.

Italian-- to sing, celebrate or praise

Break or interruption in music, notated by two diagonal lines of referred to as railroad tracks.

French polyphonic song of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.

The sounding of two or more notes simultaneously.

Music that proceeds in half steps.