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53 Cards in this Set
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Lighting Designer
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Responsible for stage illumination
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Lintrel
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Beam spanding two upright posts
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Liturgical Drama
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Medieval play in a church org. didactic
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Madrigal
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A secular polyphonic composition
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Major
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Tonality of a complication; 7 tone scale
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Mass
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Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church
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Melodrama
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A simplistic sentimental storyline
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Melody
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Serious of 7 tones, arranged horizontally
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Meter
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Rhythymic organization of music
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Mime
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Characters or modes by gestures
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Minaret
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Prayer tower connected to a moslem mosque
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minor
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tonality based on a minor scale
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modern
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recent style associated with the 29th century
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modes
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tones arranged in a scale that forms the basis for a composition
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monophony
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a single line of music
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Montage
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superimposed photoaphic images
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Mosaic
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Images made from stone or glass. Fragments pressed into masonry
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Mosque
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Moslem house of prayer
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Motet
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Polyphonic sacred vocal composition
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Musical Theatre
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American combination of theatre & music
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narrative film
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film that tells a story
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open, free
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no external form is applied to the music
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opera
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music drama/music dominates dialog
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Oratorio
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sacred vocal composation/orchestrated
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Orchestra
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ensemble of winds, strings, brass, percussion
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Ostinato
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persistently repeated rhythmic figure
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overture
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concert piece for orchestra/opening of opera or musical
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Pogada
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buddhist temple with several levels
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Perspective
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Depicting spatial relationships on a flat surface
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piano forte
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literally "soft/loud" on modern piano
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plot
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storyline or plan
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polyphony
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composition with many equal parts
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polyrhythm
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multiple rhythms occuring simultaneous
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post-modern
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electic style using older forms in a contemporary context
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prelude
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composition for keyboard or opening musical theatre
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primitive
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artists who are self taught
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producer
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preson responsible for financing productions
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program music
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textual reference to a piece of music
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protagonist
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leading character in a theatrical production
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ragtime
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jazz style/regular rhythms/syncopation
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raked stage
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stage floor with back higher than front
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recitative & aria
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words recited on pitch with melodic extended air
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relief
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sculpture projecting from backstage beam
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reliquary
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receptable for religous relic
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renaissance
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historical era between 1400 and 1699
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retalbo
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religious altar panel in a church
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rhythm
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movement of uniform or patterned recurrence
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ride-rhythm
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repeated rhythm played by a drum or a cymbal to keep time
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riff
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melodic fragment repeated by a group (usually jazz)
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rising action
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major focus of a plot development
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romantic
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style emphasizing emotion free imagination
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rondo
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musical form with three different sections
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scale
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An arrangement of seven tons systematically from A to G
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