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| Medieval French Dance, characterized by paired couplets. |
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| A non melodic or harmonic tone; a steady note that provides a base. |
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| An unaccompanied melodic line |
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| A melodic line accompanied by chords. |
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| Non imitative counterpoint |
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| Two melodies that serve each other and are equal and independent. |
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| Two melodies that start at different times and go back and forth |
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| Two or more instrumentive groups that are homophonic of themselves going against each other. |
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1. Most popular late renaissance secular vocal genre.
2. Composer set poem to music as vividly as possible.
3. Great variety of musical textures.
4. Italian, but later popular in England. |
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| Voices without any instrumental accompaniment. |
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| Using musical techniques to emphasize a point in the text of music. |
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| Vocal, but may/not have an instrumental accompaniment. Secular, light, popular style. Strophic poem usually about love. |
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| Droning, Medieval guitar instrument that is strummed. |
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| A bass melody that is repeated over and over with melodic stuff over it. |
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| ABACA; always returning back to the A. |
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| Goes with consequent phrase: ends on half cadence, usually follows with consequent phrase. |
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| Strong ending: usually goes with antecedent phrase. |
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| A piece used to solve a technical difficulty. |
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| A 1 instrument piece used to depict a certain mood. Used heavily by Romantics. |
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| A keyboard like instrument that strikes bells. Modern, adds a surreal effect. Used by Bartok. |
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| Eerie dissonances providing backdrop to melodies. Bartoks favorite. Scary night. Uses hungarian scales and rhythms. Arch form. |
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| DruG ClaP TTT. First jazz combo. Theme is established, everyone takes a solo, theme comes back. First jazz group. Organized into upper melody and backup melodie groups. |
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| The sounding of a melody and it's variants simultaneously. Jazz. |
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| Two gourds connected by long neck. Allows for heavy syncopation and improvisation found in Ragas. Usually takes lead instrument. Played by a guru that takes on an apprentice. |
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| Lute like thing held upright. 4 strings tuned to 1 and 4/5 and their octaves. Apprentice plays drone. Not a lead instrument. |
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| 2 tuned drums, a larage and small. Skilled musicians duel with sitar or jaltarang. Rhythms based of tala. Pitch determined by moving fingers up and down drum. |
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| Set of porcelain bowls tuned by amount of water in them. In semicircle around musician and struck with bamboo sticks. Musician improvises off Raga main tones to start and eventually keeps steady melody. |
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| Melodic framework of Indian music. 1st beat not necessarily emphasized, but all performers arrive at it to show harmony of universe. |
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| Indonesian pentatonic scale where all tones are equally apart through the use of microphones. |
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| Indonesian scale with 7 + octave tones. Space between 3+4 and 7+1. Dissonances. |
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| Produces sound by vibrating strings. |
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| Produces sound through vibrating column of air. |
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| Produces sound through stretched membrane. |
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| The material of itself vibrates. Struck, rubbed, shaken, etc. Bongos table etc. Made of all kinds of crazy substances. |
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| Idiophones made of metal. |
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| Indonesian orchestra that varies in size. Each instrument is handcrafted for the gamelan. Includes gender, saron, gongs, drums, suling and rebab. |
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| Creepy as fuck sounding instrument; out of tune xylophone that usually plays the lead. Plays the music in traditional puppet shows, also scary as fuck. Struck with water buffalo mallets. Can play backup or lead. |
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| Lower sounding gender, usually plays slower sounding melodies. |
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| Violin like instrument with strings suspended in midair. Easy to bend pitches. Originally a solo instrument, but bigger ones allow for concertos. |
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| Lute like Chinese instrument. 4 strings. Frets of bamboo and ivory. Plucked with fingernails or plectra. Can solo or duet. |
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| 5 note per octave scale, made popular in Asian music. |
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| Dying phoenix instrument. Organ thing you play like a harmonica. Produces simultaneous pitches. 1st organ. Resembles bird with folded wings. |
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| Melody, followed by improvisation on melody. |
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| Recorder like Ghanan instrument that has limited range. |
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| Drums, cylindrical, allow for advanced syncopation. |
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