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Ayre/air

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Song or simple melody sometimes the title of a movement of a suite

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Anthem

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Short sacred choral piece sung in English. Sometimes sung by a choir unaccompanied and sometimes accompanied by an organ, featuring solo parts

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Ballett

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A type of madrigal in strophic form which was originally danced to. There is a fa-la-la refrain

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Chorale

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A German hymn tune, written in four parts for soprano, alto, tenor and bass

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Contemporary jazz

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Jazz after 1980

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EDM

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You know what this is sam

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Galliard

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A Renaissance court dance with 3 beats in a bar. It often follows a pavan

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Madrigal

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A Renaissance non religious work polyphonic in style using imitation

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Motet

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A sacred choral work with Latin text and polyphonic texture usually sung in a Capella

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Nationalist

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Music which incorporates elements of folk music of the composers country

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Neo-classical

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Return to structures and styles of earlier periods combined with dissonant tonal and even atonal harmonies

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Pavan

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A Renaissance court dance with 2 beats in the bar. Often followed by a galliard

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Renaissance

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Resurgence of interest in music based on ideas of ancient Greeks and Romans

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Serial

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20th century method of musical composition invented by Schoenberg in which the 12 notes of the chromatic scale are organised into a series or tone row/ note row

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