Terms & Concepts

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Online Dictionaries

1. Grove/Oxford {Grove} - *
2. Harvard Dictionary of Music {HD} - *

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Open Access Glossaries

1. Earsense, Fugue Vocabulary {Earsense.org}
2. Edwards, Puzzle Canon Glossary {PuzzleCanon.com}
3. Kerman, Art of Fugue Glossary {Open JSTOR} (Kerman 2015)

Definitions

1. Acrostic {WP}
2. Alteration {HD}
   
3. Analysis {Grove}
4. Cadence {Grove}
5. Cambiata {HD}
   
6. Canon {HD; Grove}
7. Chaconne {Grove}
8. Chorale {Grove}
9. Chorale prelude {Grove}
10. Clefs {WP}
11. Consonance and Dissonance {HD}
    
12. Continuo {Grove}
13. Counterpoint {Grove}
14. Compound melody {GB} (Davidian 2015)
15. Corpus analysis (Giraud et al. 2017)
    
16. Cross relation {HD}
17. Dissonant counterpoint {Grove}
18. Double counterpoint, see Invertible counterpoint
19. Dux/Comes (Latin, 'leader/follower') {Grove}
    • Guida/Consequente
20. Durchführung (Ger., 'leading through') {Grove}
21. Figured bass {Grove}
    
22. Fortspinnung (Ger., 'spinning out') {Grove}
23. Fugue {Grove}
• Exposition {Grove}
  
• Subject {Grove}
• Answer {Grove}
• Countersubject {Grove}
  
• Episode {Grove}
• Stretto {Grove}
• Double fugue {HD; Grove}
  
• Triple fugue {Grove}
  
24. Fundamental bass {Grove}
25. Handexemplar (Ger.) {WP}
    
26. Harmony {Grove}
27. Key signature {HD}
• Modal or partial key signature
28. Ground, ground bass {HD}
    
29. Grundgestalt (German, 'basic shape') {Grove}
30. Imitation {Grove}
31. Invertible counterpoint {Grove; HD}
32. Invention {Grove}
33. Madrigal {Grove}
34. Mass {Grove}
35. Mode {Grove}
36. Motet {Grove}
37. Notation {Grove}
38. Note values: British vs. American {WP}
39. Organum {Grove}
40. Part-writing [voice-leading] {Grove}
41. Partimento [It. - division] {HD}
42. Partita {Grove}
43. Partial (key) signature {HD}
    
44. Passacaglia {Grove}
45. Pitch notation: American Standard (WP); Helmholtz {WP}
    
46. Plainchant {Grove}
47. Presa (It.) {Grove}
    • Signum congruentiae (Lat., 'sign of congruence') {HD}
48. Prima pratica and seconda pratica (It.) {Grove}
49. Ricercare {Grove}
50. Serialism {Grove}
51. Sinfonia {Grove}
    
52. Solmization {Grove}
    • European medieval and Renaissance systems {Grove}
    • Hexachord {HDM}
53. Sonata {Grove}
54. Species counterpoint {Grove}
55. Step progressions {GB} (Davidian 2015)
    
56. Suite {Grove}
57. Texture {Grove}
    1. Monophony {Grove}
    2. Polyphony {Grove}
    3. Homophony {Grove}
• See also: Heterophony {Grove}
58. Thoroughbass, or basso continuo {Grove}
    See also: Figured bass
    
59. Trio sonata {Grove}
60. Toccata {Grove}
61. Tonality {Grove}
62. Triple counterpoint, see Invertible counterpoint
63. Urtext {WP; see also Bärenreiter}
64. Vademecum (Lat.) {WP}
65. Variations {Grove}

References

Davidian, Teresa. 2015. Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician: An Introduction. New York: Rowan & Littlefield. {GB}

Giraud, Mathieu, Richard Groult, Emmanuel Leguy, Florence Levé. 2015. "Computational Fugue Analysis." Computer Music Journal 39/2 (2): 77–96. {JSTOR}

Grove Music Online; Oxford Music Online (Grove/Oxford). 2022. Oxford University Press. Available online at: <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com>.

Kerman, Joseph. 2015/2005. Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750. Berkeley: University of California Press.{Full-text: Luminosa; JSTOR}

Randel, Don Michael, ed. 2003. The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. {HDM}

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Available online at: <https://www.wikipedia.org>.