Random Terminology Flashcards
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Ripoeno
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Players in the background (baroque)
2
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Concertino
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Featured soloists (Baroque)
3
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Cadenza
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When the accompaniment stops for a soloist to show off virtuosity (sometimes improvised)
4
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A phrase of music
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A musical sentence
5
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Ornament
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Musical decoration
6
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Continuo section
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Continuos accompaniment made up of the Double bass, Harpsichord and Cello (Barqoue).
7
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Ostinato
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A short repeated pattern or rhythm, similar to a riff
8
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Terraced dynamics
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Dynamics that have no rendition in between change, but suddenly change, no crescendos or diminuendos.
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DR SMITH- meaning
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Dynamics
Rhythm
Structure
Meter/Melody
Instrumentation
Tempo/Texture/Tonality/Timbre
Harmony