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Orchestra Terms(H-I)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Habanera | A Cuban dance from Havana, later introduced to Spain. example is found in Bizet's Spanish opera Carmen |
| Harmony | Describes the simultaneous sounding of two or more notes and the technique governing the construction of such chords and their arrangement in a succession |
| Harpsichord | (or cembalo) is a keyboard instrument with strings running from front to back of its wing-shaped horizontal box and soundboard. |
| Hornpipe | Is a rapid British dance that exists in various metres-triple duple and quadruple. In its earlier English form it is found in the keyboard suites and stage music of the English composer Henry Purcell, and in keyboard and orchestral movements by Handel |
| Humoresque | Schumann was the first composer to use the title Humoreske for a relatively long work for piano, the humour of the title used rather in the sense of a 'mood', of one sort or another. |
| Hymn | Is a song of praise, whether to a god, saint or hero. The plainchant __ has a place in the Divine Office. In Protestant Christian worship, where the ___ assumed considerable importance, after the chorales or Martin Luther and his followers |
| Impressionism | A term at first used mockingly to describe the work of the French Painter Monet and his circle; they later made use of the word themselves. It was similarly used to describe an element of vaguenessand imprecision coupled with a perceived excess to color |
| Impromptu | Was first used as a title for a musical composition in 1822 by the Bohemian composer Vorisek, who applied it to six piano pieces; this was imitated by Schubert's publisher in naming a set of our piano pieces |
| Improvisation | Was once a normal part of a performer's stock-in-trade. ___ of a keyboard part from a given series of chords, was a necessary musical accomplishment, while the improvisatory element in the addition of ornaments to a melodic part remained normal in opera |
| Instrumentation | Is generally used to mean orchestration, the art if writing music for instruments, or , alternatively, the actual scoring of a particular compostion |
| Interlude | In stage works (= French: entr' acte; German: Zwischenspiel) is an orchestral passage or more elaborate entertainment between acts scene, sometimes for dramatic purposes and sometimes designed to allow time for scene changes in a work that is continuous. |
| Intermezzo | The Italian __ replaced the intermedio in 18th-century opera as an entertainment between the acts of an opera or play, relevant or irrelevant in plot to the work that framed it. It was often in the form of a comic opera, providing, therefore, comic relief |
| Interval | In music an ___ is the distance in pitch between two notes, counted from the lower note upwards, with the lower notes as the first of the__. Violin is tuned in fifths, the double bass in fourths. Harmonic __ occur simultaneously, Melodic ____ |
| Intonation | Is the exactness of pitch or lack of it in playing or singing. Collective ______ is that of a group of instruments, where slight individual variations in pitch can be lost in a generally more favourable effect |
| Invention | The two-part '______' of Johann Sebastian Bach are contrapuntal two-voice keyboard compositions, and the word is often understood in this sense, although it had a less precise meaning in earlier music |
| L'istesso tempo | The same speed, is found as an instruction to the player to return to the previous speed of the music |
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