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SATB

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The four voices used in a choir (soprano, tenor, bass)

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Oratorio

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A religious piece like an opera but not acted on stage.

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Imitation

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Where one part copies another

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Plagal Cadence

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A section which ends with the chords 4 and 1 (subdominant to tonic)

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Basso Continuo

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The cello and organ in baroque times

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Hemiola

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Giving the music a feel of having 2 beats rather than 3

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Sequence

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A pattern moving up or down

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Ostinato

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A constantly repeated pattern

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Homophonic

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A tune with an accompaniment

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Imitative

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When the melodies copy one another

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Symphony

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A piece for an orchestra in 4 movement

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Rubato

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Playing about with the speed of a piece, either slowing it down or speeding up

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Cantable

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the melody is played so that is sings out on the piano and uses a smooth sound

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Sustuento

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Slow and sustained

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Syncopation

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Putting the emphasis on usually weak beats in a piece of music

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Acciacctura

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A crushed notes

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Enharmonic Change

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The same note with a different name e.g Ab to G#

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Smorzando

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Dying away

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Pianissimo

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Very quiet

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Peddle Note

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A repeated note

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Sehr Rasch

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Very fast

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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The tune is passed around the orchestra, between instruments

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Hexachords

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A chord with six notes

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Atonal

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No key

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Fragmented

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Broken up

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Hauptstimme

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Principle Melody

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Metamorphosis

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A basic change in form

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Resultant Melody

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A melody made up from notes being played in different instruments parts

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Metrical Displacement

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Playing the same thing but at a different time, sounds out of sync

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Polymetre

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A combination of different time signatures

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Tritone

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An interval of a sharpened 4th.

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Syllabic

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One melody note per syllable.

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Octave displacement

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Moving notes from the melody into different octaves.

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Tremolo

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Very quick notes, gives a shaking effect

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Harmonics

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Very high notes

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Strident

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Big, bold, confident

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Frontline Instruments

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The instruments that play the melody lines

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Rhythmic Section

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The instruments that play the background bass and beats

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Head

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The melody, and in ALL BLUES is followed by a riff

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Riff

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A repeated pattern

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Backbeats

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Accenting beats which are not usually accented in MOBY 2&4

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Sub-bass

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A very low bass (‘thumping rumble’)

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Breakdown

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One bar of silence

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Panning

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Spreading the sound into a new stereo or speaker

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Echo

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A sound repeated after it has been heard

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EQ

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Changes the frequency of a sound

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Reverb

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Amplifying a sound, making it sound like it was recorded in an echoey space

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Cross rhythms

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Two different rhythms being played at the same time, the rhythms usually have different time signatures

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Flanging

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Sweeping effect produced through slight delay to copied sound

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Distortion

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Making the sound tougher and harsher

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Word Painting

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When the word mirrors the musical effect being put on the music

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Falsetto

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Notes higher than the normal male range

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Sequence

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When a melody is repeated a tone higher than it was previously

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Meend

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Sliding between notes (when singing)

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Polyrhythmic

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Different rhythms played together

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Heterophonic

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A type of texture where a more complicated part is added on top of another one

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Unison

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Singing or playing together

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Call and response

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When a leader plays and the rest of the group repeats

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Pentatonic Scale

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Scale using 5 notes

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Vocables

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Nonsense syllables

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Strophic

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Name for a structure of 2 verse’s and 3 inserts

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Diatonic

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Using notes in the key

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Fasing

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Having two recordings of the same piece of music and playing it at slightly different times so they go apart and come together.

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Retro Grading

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Flipping a phrase of music (backwards)

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