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Ripoeno

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Players in the background (baroque)

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Concertino

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Featured soloists (Baroque)

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Cadenza

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When the accompaniment stops for a soloist to show off virtuosity (sometimes improvised)

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A phrase of music

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A musical sentence

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Ornament

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Musical decoration

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Continuo section

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Continuos accompaniment made up of the Double bass, Harpsichord and Cello (Barqoue).

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Ostinato

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A short repeated pattern or rhythm, similar to a riff

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Terraced dynamics

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Dynamics that have no rendition in between change, but suddenly change, no crescendos or diminuendos.

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DR SMITH- meaning

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Dynamics
Rhythm

Structure
Meter/Melody
Instrumentation
Tempo/Texture/Tonality/Timbre
Harmony

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Melisma

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Singing different notes on the same syllable of a word (like the Messiah)

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