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What is 12 Bar Blues?

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A chord sequence used in Blues and Rock & Roll

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What are 7th Chords?

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A chord that has the seventh added to it

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What does AAB refer to?

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A phrase structure used in the chorus of Blues and Rock & Roll

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What is ABA in music?

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Ternary Form

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What does Accelerando mean?

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Gradually getting faster

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What is an Accent in music?

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A note which is played louder than those played around it

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What does Allegro mean?

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Fast

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What is an Alto voice?

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A low female voice

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What is a Backbeat?

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An Accented snare on beats 2 and 4

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What is a Bass voice?

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A low male voice

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What is Bass Ostinato?

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A low short repeated pattern

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What does BPM stand for?

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Beats per minute

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What is Brass in an orchestra?

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A section including instruments such as the trumpet and trombone

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What is Call and Response?

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Where one musician plays and another ‘answers’ the first player

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What is a Chord Sequence?

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The order the chords are played in

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What is a Chorus in music?

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A repeated section of a song where the words and music are repeated usually the most important

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What is Compound time?

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3 weak beats in every strong beat

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What is a Crash cymbal?

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Part of the drum kit, a type of cymbal

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What does Crescendo mean?

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Gradually getting louder

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What is a Crotchet?

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Worth 1 count - quarter note

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What does Diminuendo mean?

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Gradually getting quieter

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What is a Drone in music?

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A sustained note which is usually low

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What is a Drum Fill?

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A pattern a drummer plays to warn of a new section about to start

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What is Duration in music?

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Length of individual notes

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What are Dynamics?
Volume
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What is an Enharmonic equivalent?
Two different names for the same pitch
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What is an Ensemble?
A group of instrumentalists
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What is a Flat in music?
An accidental that makes the pitch lower
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What does Forte mean?
Loud
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What is a Hi-hat?
Part of the drum kit - two cymbals are brought together by means of a foot pedal.
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What are Hits in music?
Sudden unexpected accented notes
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What are the primary Triads?
I, IV, V
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What does Idiomatic mean?
Playable
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What is Improvisation?
Making it up as you go along
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What is an Intro in music?
Section at the start of a song before the singing starts
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What is a Kick in music?
Part of the drum kit, another term for bass drum
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What does Legato mean?
Playing notes smoothly like they are joined together.
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What is a Leitmotif?
A melody that depicts a character or place
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What are Lyrics?
The words to a song
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What is Melody?
A tune
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What is a Minim?
Worth two counts
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What does monophonic mean?
All layers playing the same thing
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What is an Outro?
The end section of a song
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What is Percussion?
A section of the orchestra including instruments such as the snare drum and xylophone
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What is a Phrase in music?
A musical sentence (part of a melody)
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What is Phrase Structure?
How the sections of a melody are put together
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What does Piano mean?
Quiet
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What is Pitch?
Low or High
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What is Pizzicato?
Plucking strings
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What is a Scale?
Notes played in order from lowest to highest
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What is a Semitone?
The very nearest pitch
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What is Simple time?
2 weak beats for every strong beat
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What is a Snare?
Part of the drum kit, played on beats 2 and 4 in a backbeat
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What is a Solo?
Someone singing or playing on their own
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What is a Soprano voice?
A high female voice
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What does Staccato mean?
Short, detached notes
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What are Strings in an orchestra?
A section including instruments such as the trumpet and trombone
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What is Structure in music?
How music is split into sections
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What is Shuffle time?
A type of metre used in Blues and Rock & Roll
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What is Tempo?
Speed of the regular pulse
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What is a Tenor voice?
A high male voice
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What is Ternary Form?
A piece with the structure ABA
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What is Texture in music?
Number of different musical layers
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What is Timbre?
The sound quality of an instrument or instruments uses
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What is a Time signature?
The way of showing how many beats in a bar and what type of beat
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What is Tonality?
Major or Minor
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What is a Tone?
2 semitones
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What is a Triad?
A chord made up of three notes three letter names apart
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What is a Triplet?
3 beats in the space of 2
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What is a Verse in music?
A section of a song where the words change each time but music stays the same
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What is a Walking Bass?
A Triadic bassline used in Blues and Rock & Roll
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What is Woodwind in an orchestra?
A section including instruments such as the trumpet and trombone
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What is Baroque?
A musical time period 1600-1750
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What is a Cadence?
Two chords at the end of a phrase that have a specific function
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What is an Imperfect Cadence?
Two chords at the end of the phrase that sound incomplete
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Who is J. S. Bach?
A composer of Baroque Music
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What is a Minuet?
A stately dance in three time
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What is an Oboe?
A Double reeded Woodwind instrument
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What is a Perfect Cadence?
Two chords at the end of the phrase that sound complete using the chords V-I
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What is a Melodic Hook?
A catchy melody in a pop song
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What is a Caixa?
A drum used in samba that has a snare
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What is a Repenique?
The mestre's drum used in Samba
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What is an Agogo?
Two bells joined together used in samba
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What is a Chocolo?
A shaker used in samba
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What is an Apito?
A whistle used in samba
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What is a Ganza?
A shaker used in samba
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What is a Surdo?
A bass drum used in samba to keep the beat
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What is a Mestre?
The leader in samba music
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What is a Break in samba music?
A part of samba music when everyone plays the same rhythm
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What is a Groove in samba music?
A section where all parts play different layers on top of each other
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What is a Riff?
A short repeated phrase in popular music or Jazz
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What is a Clean Electric Guitar?
An electric guitar playing with no effects used
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What is Ground bass?
A repeating bass line sometimes used in baroque music
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What is Balanced phrasing?
Even phrase lengths
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What are Terraced Dynamics?
No crescendos or diminuendos
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What is a Harpsichord?
A keyboard instrument that makes its sound by plucking the strings
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What is an Imperfect cadence?
An incomplete sounding cadence, using chords I-V
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What is a Sharp in music?
Something that makes the note a semitone higher
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What is a Bouzouki?
A Greek stringed instrument which is used to play melodies
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What is a Syrtos?
A rhythm pattern used in Greek music with the beats split 3-3-2
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What is Kalamatianos?
Greek rhythm pattern in 7/8 time; the quaver beats divided into a 3-2-2 pattern
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What is Zeibekiko?
A Greek rhythm pattern in 9/8 time; quaver beats divided 2-2-2-3
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What is Melody and accompaniment?
A texture in which one part plays a melody, the other accompanies
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What is a Trill?
A rapid alternation between two adjacent notes
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What is Zeibekiko?
A Greek rhythm pattern in 9/8 time; quaver beats divided 2-2-2-3
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What is melody and accompaniment?
A texture in which one part plays a melody, the other accompanies
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What is a trill?
A rapid alternation between two adjacent notes

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