Burns Flashcards

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Fast tempo

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Agitato

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Accelerate or go faster

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Accelerando

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2
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Instrument with strings associated Irish music

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Banjo

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3
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Line separating measure

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Bar line

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4
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Sequence of notes/ chords comprising dose of musical phrases

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Cadence

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5
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Highest part in choral music

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Canto

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6
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To become quieter

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Decrescendo

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7
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Separate, used as a direction for orchestral players reading the same musical staff to divide into two or more voice parts

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Divisi

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8
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Mournful; melancholic poem

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Elegy

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9
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Group of musicians

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Ensemble

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10
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High voice; especially for tenor voice higher than vocal range

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Falsetto

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11
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To hold

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Fermata

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12
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In a broad or demanding style

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Grandioso

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13
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Job for musicians

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Gig

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14
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One key to key right next to it

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Half Step

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15
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More than one note played at the same time

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Harmonics

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16
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Distance between 2 notes

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Interval

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17
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2 or more parts with same or similar phrases but with delays between entrances

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Imitation

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18
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Irish dance

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Jig

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19
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Happy, joyous

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Jubiloso

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20
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First note of musical scale

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Keynote

21
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Sharps and flats following clef sign

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Key signature

22
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Very slow tempo

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Largo

23
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7th note in a scale

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Leading tone

24
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Musical term to play a certain passage in a majestic or dignified way

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Maestoso

25
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Accented

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Marcato

26
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Cancels flat or sharp

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Natural

27
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Sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches

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Neumes

28
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8 notes of entire key

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Octave

29
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Art form where singers perform dramatic text combining script and singing

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Opera

30
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To play a piece softly

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Piano

31
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Note

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Pitch

32
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Dance performed by four couple

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Quadrille

33
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4 person group

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Quartet

34
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“Chorus” or repeated part of a song

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Refrain

35
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Free-form piece that takes different tunes and strings them together

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Rhapsody

36
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Theatre script

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Score

37
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Group of six

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Sextet

38
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Second lowest voice; classical male soprano voice

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Tenor

39
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Melodic figure of phrase that is basis for comparison/ section of song

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Theme

40
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Mixed voice parts

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Unequal voices

41
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Last beat in a measure; weak beat

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Upbeat

42
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Fluctuation of a note

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Vibrato

43
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To play in a vigorous manner

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Vigoroso

44
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Dance in 3/4 time

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Waltz

45
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Stream of forced air

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Whistle

46
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Musical instrument from percussion made from wood hit with mallets

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Xylophone

47
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Form of singing which has repeated changes of pitch during single note ( low to high fast )

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Yodel

48
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Hand held instrument

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Zither

49
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Two

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Zwei

50
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Order of Sharps

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G, D, A, E, B, F sharp, C sharp

51
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Order of Flats

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F, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat