Burns Flashcards

(52 cards)

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Fast tempo

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Agitato

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Accelerate or go faster

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Accelerando

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Instrument with strings associated Irish music

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Banjo

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3
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Line separating measure

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Bar line

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4
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Sequence of notes/ chords comprising dose of musical phrases

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Cadence

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5
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Highest part in choral music

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Canto

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6
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To become quieter

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Decrescendo

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Separate, used as a direction for orchestral players reading the same musical staff to divide into two or more voice parts

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Divisi

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8
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Mournful; melancholic poem

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Elegy

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9
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Group of musicians

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Ensemble

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High voice; especially for tenor voice higher than vocal range

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Falsetto

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11
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To hold

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Fermata

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12
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In a broad or demanding style

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Grandioso

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13
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Job for musicians

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Gig

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14
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One key to key right next to it

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Half Step

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15
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More than one note played at the same time

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Harmonics

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16
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Distance between 2 notes

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Interval

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17
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2 or more parts with same or similar phrases but with delays between entrances

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Imitation

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18
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Irish dance

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Jig

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19
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Happy, joyous

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Jubiloso

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20
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First note of musical scale

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Sharps and flats following clef sign

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Key signature

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Very slow tempo

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7th note in a scale

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Musical term to play a certain passage in a majestic or dignified way
Maestoso
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Accented
Marcato
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Cancels flat or sharp
Natural
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Sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches
Neumes
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8 notes of entire key
Octave
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Art form where singers perform dramatic text combining script and singing
Opera
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To play a piece softly
Piano
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Note
Pitch
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Dance performed by four couple
Quadrille
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4 person group
Quartet
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"Chorus" or repeated part of a song
Refrain
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Free-form piece that takes different tunes and strings them together
Rhapsody
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Theatre script
Score
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Group of six
Sextet
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Second lowest voice; classical male soprano voice
Tenor
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Melodic figure of phrase that is basis for comparison/ section of song
Theme
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Mixed voice parts
Unequal voices
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Last beat in a measure; weak beat
Upbeat
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Fluctuation of a note
Vibrato
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To play in a vigorous manner
Vigoroso
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Dance in 3/4 time
Waltz
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Stream of forced air
Whistle
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Musical instrument from percussion made from wood hit with mallets
Xylophone
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Form of singing which has repeated changes of pitch during single note ( low to high fast )
Yodel
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Hand held instrument
Zither
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Two
Zwei
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Order of Sharps
G, D, A, E, B, F sharp, C sharp
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Order of Flats
F, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat