Burns Flashcards
Fast tempo
Agitato
Accelerate or go faster
Accelerando
Instrument with strings associated Irish music
Banjo
Line separating measure
Bar line
Sequence of notes/ chords comprising dose of musical phrases
Cadence
Highest part in choral music
Canto
To become quieter
Decrescendo
Separate, used as a direction for orchestral players reading the same musical staff to divide into two or more voice parts
Divisi
Mournful; melancholic poem
Elegy
Group of musicians
Ensemble
High voice; especially for tenor voice higher than vocal range
Falsetto
To hold
Fermata
In a broad or demanding style
Grandioso
Job for musicians
Gig
One key to key right next to it
Half Step
More than one note played at the same time
Harmonics
Distance between 2 notes
Interval
2 or more parts with same or similar phrases but with delays between entrances
Imitation
Irish dance
Jig
Happy, joyous
Jubiloso