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Colle Voce

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Follows the voice (Duration)

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Polyphonic

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Different melodies playing at once (Texture)

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Pizzicato

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Plucking (Tone colour)

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Glissando

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a continuous slide upwards or downwards between two notes.

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Vibrato

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a rapid, slight variation in pitch in singing or playing some musical instruments, producing a stronger or richer tone.

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Allegro

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at a brisk speed.

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Dissonance

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Unstable Harmony (Pitch)

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Syncopation

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Off Beats

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Tremolo

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a wavering effect in a musical tone, produced either by rapid reiteration of a note, by rapid repeated slight variation in the pitch of a note, or by sounding two notes of slightly different pitches to produce prominent overtones.

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Adagio

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slow time

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Tessitura

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Singers comfortable range

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Legato

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Smooth

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Monophonic

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having a single melodic line without harmonies or melody in counterpoint.

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Accents

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an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.

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Binary Form

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A B

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Moulation

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Changing Key (Pitch)

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Accelerando

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Speeding up (Duration)

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Staccato

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with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.

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Rubato

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he temporary disregarding of strict tempo to allow an expressive quickening or slackening, usually without altering the overall pace.

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Canon

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piece of music in which two or more voices (or instrumental parts) sing or play the same music starting at different times

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Melisma

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a group of notes sung to one syllable of text.

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Staggered Entry

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When instruments come in at different times throughout a piece of music

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Tonality

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Eg. Minor, Major, Pentatonic scale (Tone Colour)

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Falsetto

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a method of voice production used by male singers, especially tenors, to sing notes higher than their normal range.

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Forte

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loud; strong

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Ostinato

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a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, usually at the same pitch.

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Harmony

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the use of simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords

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Fugue

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contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

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Oblique Motion

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One voice holds one note and another voice sings all the notes around it

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Contrary Motion

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motion in opposite directions

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Similar Motion

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Moving in the same direction

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Crescendo

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a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music.

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Diminuendo

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a decrease in loudness in a piece of music.

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Drone

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make a continuous low humming sound.

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Fortissimo

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very loud or loudly.

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Performing Media

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Instrumental

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Sonata

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a composition for an instrumental soloist, often with a piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.

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Improvisation

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is the creative activity of immediate (“in the moment”) musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Arpeggio

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Goes beyond the octave

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Double stop

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2 notes played at once on the violin

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Block Chords

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a chord or voicing built directly below the melody either on the strong beats or to create a four-part harmonized melody line in “locked-hands” rhythmic unison with the melody, as opposed to broken chords.

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Octave

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a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Double Octave

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Octave above or below

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Unison Octave

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Exact Octaves played together

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Embellishment

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musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or “ornament” that line.

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Piano

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….

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Microtones

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the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, which are also called “microintervals”.

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Tempo

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describe the timing of music, or the speed at which a piece of music is played

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