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Rhythm and Metre
Cards in this deck (16)
- 1TempoSpeed of the beat
- 2LargoSlowly and broadly
- 3AndanteSlowish, at walking pace
- 4ModeratoModerate
- 5AllegroFast
- 6VicaceLively
- 7PrestoVery quick
- 8AccelerandoGradually speeding up
- 9RallentandoGradually slowing down
- 10RitenutoImmediately slow
- 11AllargandoGetting slower and broadeing
- 12RubatoFree rhythms
- 13Dotted Rhythma dotted crotchet lasts for one and a half crotchets
a dotted quaver lasts for one and a half quavers - 14SyncopationSyncopation is when notes are held over beats, not only off-beats.
- 15Cross RhythmCross rhythm is the effect produced when two conflicting rhythms are heard together.
- 16PolyrhythmPolyrhythm is when two or more rhythms with different pulses are heard together, eg where one is playing in triple time and another is playing in quadruple time, three against four.
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- GCSE Music Flashcards on Rhythm and Metre , created by Imogen Marlowe on 22/12/2016.
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- Imogen Marlowe · Dec 2016
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- Dec 23, 2016
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