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SATB

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The four voices used in a choir (soprano, tenor, bass)

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Oratorio

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A religious piece like an opera but not acted on stage.

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Imitation

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Where one part copies another

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Plagal Cadence

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A section which ends with the chords 4 and 1 (subdominant to tonic)

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Basso Continuo

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The cello and organ in baroque times

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Hemiola

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Giving the music a feel of having 2 beats rather than 3

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Sequence

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A pattern moving up or down

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Ostinato

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A constantly repeated pattern

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Homophonic

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A tune with an accompaniment

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Imitative

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When the melodies copy one another

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Symphony

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A piece for an orchestra in 4 movement

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Rubato

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Playing about with the speed of a piece, either slowing it down or speeding up

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Cantable

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the melody is played so that is sings out on the piano and uses a smooth sound

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Sustuento

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Slow and sustained

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Syncopation

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Putting the emphasis on usually weak beats in a piece of music

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Acciacctura

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A crushed notes

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Enharmonic Change

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The same note with a different name e.g Ab to G#

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Smorzando

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Dying away

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Pianissimo

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Very quiet

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Peddle Note

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A repeated note

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Sehr Rasch

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Very fast

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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The tune is passed around the orchestra, between instruments

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Hexachords

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A chord with six notes

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Atonal

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No key

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Fragmented
Broken up
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Hauptstimme
Principle Melody
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Metamorphosis
A basic change in form
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Resultant Melody
A melody made up from notes being played in different instruments parts
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Metrical Displacement
Playing the same thing but at a different time, sounds out of sync
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Polymetre
A combination of different time signatures
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Tritone
An interval of a sharpened 4th.
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Syllabic
One melody note per syllable.
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Octave displacement
Moving notes from the melody into different octaves.
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Tremolo
Very quick notes, gives a shaking effect
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Harmonics
Very high notes
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Strident
Big, bold, confident
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Frontline Instruments
The instruments that play the melody lines
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Rhythmic Section
The instruments that play the background bass and beats
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Head
The melody, and in ALL BLUES is followed by a riff
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Riff
A repeated pattern
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Backbeats
Accenting beats which are not usually accented in MOBY 2&4
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Sub-bass
A very low bass ('thumping rumble')
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Breakdown
One bar of silence
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Panning
Spreading the sound into a new stereo or speaker
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Echo
A sound repeated after it has been heard
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EQ
Changes the frequency of a sound
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Reverb
Amplifying a sound, making it sound like it was recorded in an echoey space
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Cross rhythms
Two different rhythms being played at the same time, the rhythms usually have different time signatures
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Flanging
Sweeping effect produced through slight delay to copied sound
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Distortion
Making the sound tougher and harsher
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Word Painting
When the word mirrors the musical effect being put on the music
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Falsetto
Notes higher than the normal male range
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Sequence
When a melody is repeated a tone higher than it was previously
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Meend
Sliding between notes (when singing)
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Polyrhythmic
Different rhythms played together
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Heterophonic
A type of texture where a more complicated part is added on top of another one
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Unison
Singing or playing together
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Call and response
When a leader plays and the rest of the group repeats
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Pentatonic Scale
Scale using 5 notes
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Vocables
Nonsense syllables
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Strophic
Name for a structure of 2 verse's and 3 inserts
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Diatonic
Using notes in the key
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Fasing
Having two recordings of the same piece of music and playing it at slightly different times so they go apart and come together.
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Retro Grading
Flipping a phrase of music (backwards)

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