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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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historic | adj: famous or significant in history, or potentially so | |
occasion | n: a time or event that is suitable or appropriate for something to happen or be done; a particular event or circumstance that requires or allows for something to be done | |
chamber | n: a large room used for a formal, public, or particular purpose; one of the parts of a parliament | |
ensemble | n: a group of people who perform together, especially in music or theater; a coordinated or matching set of something | |
salon | n: a place for social gathering, especially for exchanging ideas and discussing artistic or cultural matters; a place of beauty treatment, such as a hair salon | |
aristocracy | n: a group of persons with high social status | |
mass | n: a large amount of a substance with no definite shape or form; a large number of people or things grouped or crowded together | |
motet | n: a type of choral music that originated in the Middle Ages and is characterized by the use of complex polyphonic texture and elaborate rhythms | |
anthem | n: a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause | |
hymn | n: a song of praise or worship, especially one in a religious service or ceremony | |
incidental | adj: happening or likely to happen in the course of events, without being planned or intended; minor or peripheral | |
opera | n: a drama set to music, in which the words are sung rather than spoken | |
genre | n: a particular type or style of literature, art, music, or film that involves a particular set of characteristics | |
compose | v: to write music, poetry, or formal writing; to constitute or make up a whole, or a specified part of it | |
talent | n: a natural ability to be good at something; someone who has a natural ability to be good at something | |
ballet | n: a type of performance dance that tells a dramatic story or expresses an idea with music but no talking or singing | |
dominant | adj: more important, influential, or easy to notice than anything else of the same type | |
outgrowth | n: a thing that has grown or developed from something else, especially as a result of a particular process or set of circumstances | |
structure | n: the way of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts, or a complex thing constructed of many parts | |
quartet | n: a group of four musicians or vocalists; a composition of music written for such a group | |
trio | n: a group or set of three people or things, especially musicians playing together | |
concerto | n: a composition for one or more solo instruments and an orchestra, typically in three movements | |
concert | n: a musical performance given in public by one or more players or singers | |
instrument | n: an object used to make musical sounds, such as a piano, guitar, or drum; a tool or device used for a specific activity, particularly in specialist or scientific work | |
unison | n: occurring or corresponding together, simultaneously, or exactly; (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves | |
baroque | adj: of or relating to an ornate and elaborate style of art, architecture, and music that flourished in Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries; characterized by a sense of grandeur and drama | |
orchestra | n: a large group of musicians who play classical music together, usually with instruments such as strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion | |
accompanying | adj: being in a position next to or near something or someone | |
solo | adv: without anybody else or anything else; alone | |
composition | n: the different parts of something’s elements or ingredients; the way in which the different components are organized; a piece of music written by someone | |
combination | n: a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | |
poetic | adj: of or relating to poetry (= a piece of writing that emphasizes the expression of feelings and ideas); using language in an imaginative and expressive way | |
libretto | n: the text of an opera or other long vocal work | |
script | n: a written text of a film, play, broadcast, or speech; something written by hand | |
distinct | adj: noticeable from something else of a similar type | |
oratorio | n: a long musical composition for solo voices, choir, and orchestra, typically on a religious theme | |
narrative | n: a story or a description of a series of events or process of telling a story | |
entirely | adv: completely | |
suite | n: a set of rooms designated for a particular purpose or activity, especially a set of rooms in a hotel or private residence used as a living unit; a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected; the group following and attending to some important person | |
movement | n: a group of people working together to achieve a shared goal, especially a political, social, or artistic one; the process of moving or being moved, physically or figuratively | |
incorporate | v: to include something as a part of a larger entity | |
instrumental | adj: of, relating to, or performed on musical instruments; useful or important in achieving a purpose | |
arrange | v: to plan, prepare for, and carry out something | |
programmatic | adj: relating to or characterized by a systematic plan or program, especially one implemented using computers or other methods | |
symphony | n: a long musical composition in Western classical music for orchestra, usually with three or four main parts called movements | |
ripieno | n: a musical term used to describe the full orchestral sound of a Baroque concerto, typically played by the strings and consisting of a repeating bass line with simple harmonies | |
soloist | n: a person who performs a solo, especially a solo musician or singer | |
melodic | adj: having a pleasant or harmonious sound, especially in relation to music | |
horn | n: a hard, pointed, often curved part that grows on the top of the heads of some animals, such as sheep and cows; a noisemaker or musical instrument that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | |
complexity | n: the state or quality of being complicated or intricate and difficult to understand | |
liturgy | n: a form of public worship or religious service, especially in the Christian Church | |
choral | adj: sung or performed by a choir; of or relating to a choir or choral music. | |
entertainment | n: public shows, films, television, or other performances or activities of enjoying people | |
residence | n: the fact or condition of living in a particular place; a home |