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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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12
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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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14
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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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17
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Atonal

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Has no key

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18
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Fragmented

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Broken up

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19
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Haupstisme

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The principal melody

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20
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Metamorphosis

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A slight/gradual change

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21
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Resultant melody

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A melody made up from notes from different instruments

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22
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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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24
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Pizzicato

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Plucked strings

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25
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Frontline

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The melody instruments

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Rhythmic section

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The background instruments. Base+beats

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27
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Head

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The melody, played by the frontline

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Riff

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A repeating pattern

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29
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Sub-bass

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A very low base
Under 60Hz
Vibrates

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30
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Breakdown

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A bar of silence

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Panning

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Music shifting from from one speaker to another

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Echo

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Sound repeated immediately after being heard

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E.Q

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Change in frequency of sound, highest and lowest frequencies remooved

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Reverb

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Amplifying the sound, sounds echoey

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Cross rhythms

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Different rhythms played at the same time

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Distortion

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A rougher sound

37
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Word painting

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Words that mirror the musical effect

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Falsetto

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Notes that are above the normal vocal range (man singing like a girl)

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Tal

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A rhythmic pattern

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Raga

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The scale used in a rag (CD,FG,B-C-Bb,A,G,F,E,D,C)

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Alap

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Intro of the raga, improvised and doesn’t have a fixed beat

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Drone

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Repeated note(1 or 2) on tambura or shruti box

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Rasa

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The old of the piece

Desh- monsoon, night

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Meend

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Note sliding

mainly voice and sarod

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Gat

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A pre composed instrumental section

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Tan

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Fast scalic patterns/flourishes

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Polyphonic

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Two melodies playing at the same time

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Heterophonic

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Complicated part on top of a simpler one

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Homophonic

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Alike sounds. Melody+accompaniment

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Monophonic

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Unison

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Call and response

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Leader then group

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Vocables

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Nonsense syllables

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Strophic

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2 verses, 2 inserts

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Diatonic

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Notes in the key

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Aria

57
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Syllabic

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A note per syllable

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Multi tracking

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Different layers on top of each other

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Acciacaturas

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Tiny notes squeezed in

60
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Rubato

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Robbing time then giving it back

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Sostenuto

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Sotto voce

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‘Under the voice’ whisper

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Smorzando

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Dying away

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Acciacatura

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Trill, tiny notes squeezed in

65
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Melisma

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Lots of notes to one syllable

66
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Raga

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Piece of North Indian music based on improvisations of the rag

67
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Rag

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Scale used in North Indian music

68
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Rasa

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Type of mood that the rag represents

69
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Jhaptal

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10- 2+3+2+3

70
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Teental

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16- 4+4+4+4

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Kherwa Tal

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8- 2+2+2+2

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Rupak Tal

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Ektal Tal

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12-2+2+2+2+2+2

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Hindustani

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Music from northern India

75
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Gharana

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Teacher pupil tradition, how their music is passed on orally

76
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Chand

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Improvised triplet patterns

77
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Tihai

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A certain rhythm that indicates the beginning of a new section

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