APPENDIX
to Chapter 18
A Preliminary Inventory of Figurae
Texture
/homorhythm/: fanfare, opera buffa, ombra, march, French overture, fantasia, hymn.
/solo/: cadenza, recitative, fugue and imitative counterpoint.
/concertante/: pastoral style, hunt, Harmonie (noble wind band).
/augmentation/: singing allegro, stylus mixtus, trio sonata.
/diminution/: brilliant style, bravura, stile antico (third species), contredanse.
/stratification/ (three or more levels of uniform motion): stile antico, learned style, aria.
/tutti/: march, French overture, tempesta.
/pedal/: pastoral style, pastorale, siciliano, gavotte.
Rhythm
/displacement/: gavotte, stile antico (fourth species), alla zoppa, sensibility, sarabande,
polonaise, mazurka.
/anacrusis/: bourrée, gavotte, contredanse.
/broken/: recitative, fantasia, ombra, sensibility, cadenza.
/uniform/: stile antico, pastoral style, hymn.
/tactus/ (preponderance of note values corresponding to the notated beat, e.g., an abundance of
quarter notes in 3/4): minuet, march, hymn, stile antico.
Meter
/triple/ (3/2, 3/4): minuet, sarabande.
/2/ (2/2): stile antico, noble march, gavotte.
/8/ (3/8, 6/8, 9/8/, 12/8): gigue, siciliano, pastorale, passepied, ranz des vaches.
Melody
/arpeggio/: fanfare, pastorale, Teutsche, ranz des vaches, hunt, Mannheim rocket.
/conjunct/: aria, hymn, brilliant style.
/disjunct/: opera buffa, bravura, tempesta.
/narrow/: hymn, siciliano.
/ornament/: Turkish, brilliant style, sensibility.
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Harmony
/minor/: tempesta, ombra.
/chromatic/: fantasia, sensibility, ombra, tempesta.
/slow/: pastoral style, pastorale, siciliano, Teutsche.
/elliptical/: fantasia, ombra, sensibility.
Dynamics
/f–p/ (abrupt fluctuation between loud and soft): ombra, fantasia, cadenza.