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Music (Harder)
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- 1A quarter note, often equivalent to one beat.Crotchet
- 2Music written using both the black notes of the piano; a scale which moves up by by a smeitone of the notes of a diatonic scale.Chromatic
- 3A rounding-off section.Coda/codetta
- 4Time signatures based on a dotted crochet beat, divided into three quavers. E.g. 6/8, 3/4.Compound time
- 5Time signatures based on a dotted crochet beat, divided into three quavers. E.g. 6/8, 3/4.Con arco
- 6Music for a featured solo instrument/s and an orchestra.Concerto
- 7Melodic movement by stepConjunct
- 8A bass part written in the baroque period, consisting of a bass line with, sometimes, the addition of figures indicating the harmonies to be played - a fingured bass. Normally played by a keyboard instrument, e.g. the harpsichord.Continuo
- 9Gradually getting louder.Crescendo
- 10A quarter note, often equivalent to one beat.Crotchet
- 11A composition where the theme recurs, possibly in different styles, throughout the work.Cyclic
- 12Used to describe a chord in a simple manner, usually letters e.g. c, GmChord symbol
- 13A composition where the theme recurs, possibly in different styles, throughout the work.Cyclic
- 14A solo song in ternary form I.E. the music has three sections where the first an last are similar but the middle is modulated to a relative key.Da capo aria
- 15Music written using the major or minor scale/key.Diatonic
- 16Gradually getting quieter.Diminuendo
- 17A note that is one semitone less than a perfect fourth, perfect fifth or minor seventh.Diminished
- 18The shortening of note values in a melody (usually by halving them) or reducing the intervals within a melody.Diminution
- 19Melodic movement by leap.Disjunct
- 20Sounds which clash when played togetherDissonant
- 21A note that is worth one and a half times the original value.Dotted notes
- 22An altered or flattened note found in blues music. This is usually the third, fifth or seventh note of the scale being flattened.Blue note
- 23Also reffered to as a crushed note, an acciacatura is a note of decoration played in as short a time as possible.Acciacatura
- 24This is when you add a further note to a triad that is seven notes above the root.Added seventh
- 25An accompaniment played in the left hand of a keyboard part using broken chords to produce a regular rhythmic pattern.Alberti Bass
- 26A note of decoration that takes its value away from the following note, it is accented but not harmonised.Appoggiatura
- 27Music in at least five sections in the form A B C B AArch shape, arch form
- 28Playing the notes of a chord by spreading them out (most commonly from the bottom). This technique is usually found on pianos, guitars and harps.Arpeggio
- 29The doubling of note values or the widening of an interval.Augmentation
- 30A small unbit of music; the number of beats in each bar is shown in the time signature.Bar
- 31Music in two sections which are similar. There is usually a repetition of each part.Binary form
- 32The use of two different rhythms being played at the same time.Bi-rhythm
- 33A type of articulation where a particular note needs to be stressedAccent
- 34Beats Per MinuteBMP
- 35A type of accompaniment where the notes of a chord are spread out.Broken chords
- 36A progression of two chords at the end of a musical phrase.Cadence
- 37A solo, vocal or instrumnetal passage using improvisation based on the previous music.Cadenza
- 38A phrase of music which is then changed slightly to sound completed by another musician.Call and response
- 39Imitation where perforers enter with the same tune before the previous entry has finished, producing an overlapping effect.Canonic
- 40Small group of players or singers for example of a string quartet.Chamber group
- 41Music written for a small group of players or singers.Chamber music
- 42Two or more notes sounded together.Chord
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