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1
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Chordophone and example

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A stringed instrument, Kora

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Membranphone and example

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drum with a skin stretched over it, Djembe

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Staccato

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Short and detached

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Semibreve

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Whole note, 4 beats

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5
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Minim

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Half note, 2 beats

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1 beat note

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Crochet, quarter note

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Quaver

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eighth note, 1/2 note

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Semiquaver

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Sixteenth note, 1/4 beats

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The top number on the time signature means…

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how many beats in the bar

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10
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The bottom number on the time signature means…

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what type of beat they are

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11
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Does a time signature indicate tempo

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No

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12
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Is 44 faster or slower then 24, Explain

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No, because the time signature only tell us how many beats in the bar

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13
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what is a curved line joining two notes on different pitches?

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Slur

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14
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What is a curved line joining two notes on the same pitch? what does it do?

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Tie, it connects the notes together

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15
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Legato

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Smoothly

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16
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Crescendo

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Gradually getting louder

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17
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Decrescendo

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Gradually getting quieter

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18
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F means

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Forte

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19
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Very loud

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Fortissimo

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20
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What is an incomplete bar at the beginning called

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Anacrusis

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21
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How high or low a note is

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Pitch

22
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sharp

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raises a note by a semitone

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Flat

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lowers a note by a semitone

24
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semitone

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the closest distance between two notes (flat or sharp)

25
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Tone

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raises the note by 2 semitones (1 note)

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Range

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the distance between the lowest and highest note

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Chord

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two or more pitches played at the same time

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Tie

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a curve line that joins two note values together (must be on the same line)

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Slur

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Smoothly connects notes (must be on different lines)

30
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Adagio

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Slowly

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Andante

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at a walking pace

32
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Allegro

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Fast and lively

33
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polyrhythm

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two or more different rhythms playing simutaniously

34
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electronic sounds

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computer generated sounds

35
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acoustic sounds

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natural sound

36
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pianissimo

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pp, very soft

37
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p

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piano, soft

38
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forte

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f, loud

39
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ff

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fortissimo, very loud

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legato

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smoothly and well connected

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staccato

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short and detached`

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accent

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to place emphasis on a note

43
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call and response

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one instrument or group starts a music idea (call) and it is responded to somehow by another instrument or group

44
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Ostinato

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a short repeated pattern

45
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Unity

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anything in a piece of music which is repeated or stays the same

46
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Contrast

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Anything in a piece of music that is different or changes

47
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Introduction

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the beginning section of a piece of music

48
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Coda

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the ending section of a piece of music

49
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Anacrusis

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an incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece

50
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Accidental

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when a flat, sharp or natural is not stated on the key signature

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