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The small orchestra with a big sound ~ Bringing fine music to the Carson Valley. Music Director and Conductor :|: Danny Yale |
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The Orchestra wishes to acknowledge and thank those who have made generous donations which keep our concerts free! Please patronize their businesses and events whenever possible. |
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* Martha Williams ~ Antiques Plus in Genoa and Genoa Events * The Carson Valley Inn * * RE/MAX Realty Affiliates (John Fisher and Brad Spires) * The Smallwood Foundation * * The Oakmead Foundation * Douglas County Board of Commissioners * |
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©2004-2008 The Carson Valley Pops Orchestra, a non-profit organization. All Rights Reserved. PO Box 512 ~ Minden, NV 89423 |
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GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS (Page 2 of 2) <<<Back to page 1
K.: The initial of L.A.F. Ritter von Kochel, whose chronological and thematic catalog of the works of Mozart was published in 1862. KEY: The key of music is indicated at the beginning of the staff by the key signature, i.e., the sharps or flats relevant to that key. NOTE: A musical sound of specific pitch and duration. OPUS: This Latin word meaning “work” is often used instead of its English equivalent in reference to a specific composition or of a composer’s entire output. ORCHESTRATION: The art of combining and exploiting the forces of the orchestra without the specific connotation, as to exact understanding of the techniques of the various instruments, implied by instrumentation. OVERTURE: (1) A piece of music preceding an opera or play. (2) A concert piece for orchestra in one movement, preceding nothing in particular except, perhaps, the concert program itself. PART: Any piece of music for an ensemble of players is made up of “parts.” When music is published a full score is printed containing all the parts for the use of the conductor, and separate copies of the individual parts are printed for the players. PITCH: The highness or lowness of a musical note. PIZZACATO: A technique used only by bowed instruments indicating that the strings are to be plucked. PRELUDE: Most simply, a piece of music that leads up to another. PROGRAM MUSIC: Music which is written expressly to give the listener and extra-musical experience or concept. Simply, music which reproduces the sounds of familiar activities such as the hunt, or painted sound pictures of physical events or scenes. Well-known examples are: The Grand Canyon Suite and Pictures at an Exhibition. RHYTHM: One of the basic elements of music, rhythm concerns the organization of sounds in time. S.: The initial letter of the name of Wolfgang Schmieder, a 20th century musicologist whose index of the works of J.S. Bach displaced earlier catalogs. The S. or “Schmieder” number is now regularly used in identifying a work by Bach. SCORE: (1) The written or printed book containing all the parts of a piece of music laid out one above the other (by convention, the strings are at the bottom and the high woodwinds at the top). A full score has all the parts individually written out. (2) As a verb in a phrase such as “scored” (or written) for strings, percussion, etc. SOLO: A part for unaccompanied instrument or for an instrument or voice with the dominant role in a work. SYMPHONIC POEM: A one movement form for orchestra developed by Franz Liszt. SYMPHONY: The major musical form throughout the 19th century, brought to perfection in the late 18th century by Haydn and Mozart. The classical symphony is in four movements. TEMPO: The pace or speed of a piece of music. VIBRATO: An effect, once a musical ornament, but now a standard part of tone production whereby a singer or instrumentalist imparts a throbbing quality to a note by oscillating between it and a pitch slightly below. VIRTUOSO: A musical performer of outstanding technical skill.
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