Prizes given by the American Academy of Film each year for outstanding work in films.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBacademyB
Educational institution, such as a school or college.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBaltoB
In music alto refers to a range that is a range below soprano and above tenor. For example, the female voice that sings alto would be singing below soprano. The viola plays the alto range.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBariaB
A musical vocal for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass found in operas, cantatas, passions, and oratories.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBBaroqueB
The name describing a period of music, art, and literature, approximately 1600-1750. Things described as baroque are highly ornamented, decorated, and have an energetic feel. Famous Baroque composers include Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Scarlatti, Purcell, and Monteverdi. Ec[000000]f[16]LFBaroque music is mostly based on religious themes.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBbassB
In music bass refers to a range that is below tenor. The bass voice is below baritone. Male vocal ranges are baritone (between tenor and bass), bass, or basso profundo, the very deepest, most resonant sound. A Russian male chorus always has a Basso profundo. Instrumentally, the Ec[000000]f[16]LFcontrabass is the bass-instrument section of an orchestra.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBbass clefB
Sign written on music paper designating the staff of music as the location of the tenor and bass parts.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBbrush woodB
Small pieces of wood generally, used as kindling to start fires.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcantataB
Cantata is Italian for "a sung piece." It is an extended choral work, with or without solo voices, and usually with orchestral accompaniment. It was used often within a religious service, rather than a special concert performance.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcantorB
Person who leads a church choir and/or congregation in singing songs or repeated responses.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcapriccioB
A lighthearted musical work with a free style.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBchamber musicB
Music for the home (la chamber or salle) or smaller concert hall. It can be played by string quartet, trios, duets, small orchestra, or chorus. The piano trios of Haydn are an example.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBchapelB
Small religious hall or room.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBchoirB
Singing group, frequently associated with a school or church.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBchorusB
A group of singers usually singing in three or four parts, soprano, alto, tenor, bass. A chorus may be very large and some sing in more than four parts creating an even more complex vocal sound. The word chorus may also refer to choral speaking, commenting on the action of a drama--as Ec[000000]f[16]LFin Greek Tragedy. In a song, a chorus is distinguished from a verse, such as "Polly Wally Doodle": Verse: "I Went Down South...." Chorus: "Fare Thee Well...."
Ec[000000]f[16]LBchristenedB
Bapatized into the Christian church.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBClassicalB
The name describing a period of music, approximately 1750-1825. Classical music is very balanced and symmetrical, following the musical rules that had been established by that time. Classical music is mostly secular and spotlights the newly invented piano and a much larger Ec[000000]f[16]LFinstrumental group (compared to the chamber groups of the Baroque): the symphony orchestra. Principal Classical era musicians include Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert. (Beethoven's work also extends into the next era, the Romantic period.)
Ec[000000]f[16]LBclavierB
A keyboard instrument, forerunner of the piano.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcommunistsB
Persons who believe and practice the ideals of communism; state ownership of the means of production and the general sharing, supervised by the government, of all profits made in business.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcomposerB
A person who creates original music. A person who is able to take a new musical idea or ideas and compose them into a longer piece that has form and content, and that has not existed before. A composer must have vision, technique, and great discipline to bring his/her ideas Ec[000000]f[16]LFand emotions to the written page for the performance of his/her work by others.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcompositionsB
In music, a composition is the result of putting together various parts of music in the creation of a whole.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBconcertoB
A musical work for instrumental soloists with orchestral accompaniment. An example is Bach's IBrandenberg ConcertosI.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBconservatoryB
School devoted to the education of musicians or dramatic artists.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcords of woodB
Stacks of fire wood measuring 4' x 4' x 8'. This unit is used for sale and delivery of measured quantities of fire wood.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcounterpointB
Single musical lines that play off each other; each part is equally important.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBcountessB
Woman who is married to a Count; a title of nobility common to Europe and England.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBduetB
A musical work for two musicians sometimes with accompaniment.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBFerde GrofeB
Twentieth-century American composer of the IGrand Canyon Suite.I
Ec[000000]f[16]LBFreidrich WieckB
Father of famed pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, teacher of Robert Schumann, and eventually his father-in-law.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBfugueB
A complex musical form; the theme re-enters at a higher or lower pitch after the first statement of the theme. This normally occurs in four parts. The themes are restated in different keys; the result is a tapestry of sound built on themes, counter themes, retrograde (reverse) themes, and Ec[000000]f[16]LFstretto (stress) created by bringing in themes much closer together. Bach's organ and keyboard works include some of the greatest fugues ever composed.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBGlinkaB
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was a Russian Composer who lived from 1804 to 1857. His early use of folk themes in his music inspired the nationalism in such Romantic Russian composers as Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBIGrand Canyon SuiteBI
Music written by Ferde Grofe celebrated the beauty and majesty of the Grand Canyon.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBgrievedB
Very sad.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBhalf stepB
The distance between two musical pitches that on a keyboard are played exactly next to each other, whether black or white. For instance, on a keyboard play from C to C-sharp, or E to F.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBHans Christian AndersonB
Danish story and fairy tale writer who lived from 1805 to 1875.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBharmoniousB
In music, two or more notes that, when played together, sound compatible and comfortable to the ear.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBharpsichordB
Keyboard instrument that produces sound when a key is struck and it, in turn, triggers the plucking of a string by a quill.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBHeidelbergB
Beautiful German city with an ancient castle overlooking the city from a hillside. The city is known as the home to a fine university and as the city in which many famous musicians studied and performed.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBHeineB
Heinrich Heine, a Romantic/Nationalist German poet and social essayist who lived from 1797 to 1856.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBinventionB
A musical idea. Bach wrote two- and three-part inventions for keyboard. An invention is used to create a counterpuntal work, which is based on counterpoint.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBjuvenileB
Having to do with young children.
Ec[000000]f[16]LBkeyB
Is the scale on which a piece is based. This may be C Major, (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C) or G Minor (G, A, B flat, C, D, E flat, F sharp, G) in the harmonic form--or many other scales. The key signature at the beginning of the written music tells you what sharps and flats you are to play or Ec[000000]f[16]LFsing. Fr
