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Plagal cadence

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Chord 4-1

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Oratorio

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A religious piece of music that is sung

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Perfect cadence

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Chord 5-1

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Imperfect cadence

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Interrupted cadence

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Basso continuo

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Cello or organ baseline throughout the piece

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Hemiola

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3 beats that sound like 2

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Sequence

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A pattern of notes that has been moved up or down

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Ostinato

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A constantly repeated pattern

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Symphony

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An orchestral piece in 4 movements

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Rubato

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Changing the speed of the piece

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Cantable

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Melody sings out on piano, smooth sound

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Sostenuto

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Slow and sustained

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Enharmonic change

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The same note called something different: Ab—>G#

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Smorzando

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Dying away

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Peddle note

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Repeated note

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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Melody passed around the orchestra- to hear the different timbre’s

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Hexachord

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A 6 note chord

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Atonal

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Has no key

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Fragmented

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Broken up

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Haupstisme

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The principal melody

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Metamorphosis

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A slight/gradual change

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Resultant melody

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A melody made up from notes from different instruments

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Tritone

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Interval of a sharpened 4th, the devils chord, creates suspense

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Tremolo

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Shaky effect created by quick notes

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Pizzicato
Plucked strings
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Frontline
The melody instruments
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Rhythmic section
The background instruments. Base+beats
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Head
The melody, played by the frontline
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Riff
A repeating pattern
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Sub-bass
A very low base Under 60Hz Vibrates
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Breakdown
A bar of silence
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Panning
Music shifting from from one speaker to another
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Echo
Sound repeated immediately after being heard
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E.Q
Change in frequency of sound, highest and lowest frequencies remooved
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Reverb
Amplifying the sound, sounds echoey
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Cross rhythms
Different rhythms played at the same time
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Distortion
A rougher sound
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Word painting
Words that mirror the musical effect
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Falsetto
Notes that are above the normal vocal range (man singing like a girl)
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Tal
A rhythmic pattern
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Raga
The scale used in a rag (CD,FG,B-C-Bb,A,G,F,E,D,C)
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Alap
Intro of the raga, improvised and doesn't have a fixed beat
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Drone
Repeated note(1 or 2) on tambura or shruti box
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Rasa
The old of the piece | Desh- monsoon, night
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Meend
Note sliding | mainly voice and sarod
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Gat
A pre composed instrumental section
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Tan
Fast scalic patterns/flourishes
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Polyphonic
Two melodies playing at the same time
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Heterophonic
Complicated part on top of a simpler one
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Homophonic
Alike sounds. Melody+accompaniment
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Monophonic
One sound
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Unison
Together
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Call and response
Leader then group
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Vocables
Nonsense syllables
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Strophic
2 verses, 2 inserts
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Diatonic
Notes in the key
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Aria
Solo song
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Syllabic
A note per syllable
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Multi tracking
Different layers on top of each other
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Acciacaturas
Tiny notes squeezed in
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Rubato
Robbing time then giving it back
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Sostenuto
Sustained
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Sotto voce
'Under the voice' whisper
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Smorzando
Dying away
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Acciacatura
Trill, tiny notes squeezed in
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Melisma
Lots of notes to one syllable
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Raga
Piece of North Indian music based on improvisations of the rag
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Rag
Scale used in North Indian music
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Rasa
Type of mood that the rag represents
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Jhaptal
10- 2+3+2+3
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Teental
16- 4+4+4+4
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Kherwa Tal
8- 2+2+2+2
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Rupak Tal
7- 3+2+2
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Ektal Tal
12-2+2+2+2+2+2
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Hindustani
Music from northern India
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Gharana
Teacher pupil tradition, how their music is passed on orally
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Chand
Improvised triplet patterns
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Tihai
A certain rhythm that indicates the beginning of a new section

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