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| A meaningful succession of pitches. |
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| The highness or lowness of a sound. |
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| The interval of an eighth. |
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| A stepwise rising or ascending pattern of pitches within the range of an octave. |
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| The meaningful combination of two or more different tones. |
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| A meaningful combination of three or more tones. |
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| The name of the tonic upon which a tonal piece is based; also called tonality. |
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| Musical sounds that imply tension, drive, or activity. |
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| Musical sounds that seem to be passive or at rest. |
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| A characteristic manner of composition or performance. |
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| The arrangement of time in music. |
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| The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument. |
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| The organization of rhythm into patterns of strong and weak beats. |
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| The rate of speed at which music is performed. |
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| The occurrence of accents in unexpected places. |
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| The organization or formal design of a musical composition. |
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| A section of a complete work that has its own formal design and a degree of independence but is conceived as a part of the whole; usually seperated from other movements by a pause. |
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| The most common song form. Two or more stanzas are set to the same melody. |
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| A solo voice alternating with a chorus of singers. The effect may be applied to instrumental music as well. |
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| A polyphonic composition in which all of the voices perform the same melody, beginning at different times. |
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| An instrumental form in which a theme or melody recurs to provide unity, but in altered guises for variety. |
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| A song form containing new music throughout, as opposed to setting new text to the repetition of music as in strophic form. |
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| Neutral syllables, sometimes called consonant-vowel clusters. |
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| A song in two sections, the first homophonic and the second polyphonic in texture. |
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| A folk song, strophic in form, that tells a story. |
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| A religious verse set to music suitable for congregational singing. |
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| An emotional vocal phase, sung as a long, loud call, developed by blacks as a kind of communication with fellow workers. |
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| The manner in which melodic lines are used. |
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| The musical texture consisting of one melodic line. |
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| The simultaneous sounding of two or more different versions of the same melody. |
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| The musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are simultaneously combined. |
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| The texture in which a melodic line is accompanied by chordal harmony. |
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| The simultaneous invention and performance of music. |
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| Long, flexible tones derived from African slaves. |
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| A collection of the psalms in metered and rhymed verse, suitable for setting to simple tunes. |
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| The first book printed in America, a psalter that first appeared in 1640. |
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| Instrumental music that describes a story, scene, idea, or event. |
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| Concert setting of a poem, usually by a well-known poet, to music. |
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| A method that assigns a shape to the notated pitches of fa, sol, la, and mi, placing them on the staff in a normal position. |
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| A popular nineteenth-century collection of hymns and spiritual songs. |
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| A folk-like religious song with a simple tune. |
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| An entertainment in which (originally) white men performed music and comedy in imitation of stereotypical African Americans. |
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| An instrumental ensemble including brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. |
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| Emotional, subjective approach to art. Romantic was the period from about 1825 to 1900 and it is referred to as the Romantic period of music. |
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| A nineteenth-century movement in which artists of may nationalities sought to express the particular characteristics of their own cultures. |
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| A performer who possesses dazzling technical brilliance. |
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| A relatively short piano piece, often in ternary form, in a characteristic style or mood. |
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| A polyphonic composition, originally for keyboard instruments, in which the imitative entrances of the voices alternate between tonic and dominant. |
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| An even pulse that divides the passing of time into equal units rhythmic notation (notes/rests). |
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| Perceived quality of a sound; dependent upon medium. |
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| Defined, enclosed section of a large-scale work such as a sonata or symphony. |
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| A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage. |
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| With gradually diminishing force or loudness. |
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