Music Keywords

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  • Created on: 17-04-16 10:20
Unaccompanied singing
A capella
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Getting faster
Accelerando
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Emphasis on a particular beat
Accent
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Note not in the key (Sharp or Flat)
Accidental
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Slow
Adagio
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Quickly
Allegro
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Not too fast
Andante
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Where musicians are places in various areas around a room to create a surround sound effect
Antiphonal
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A ornament consisting of notes descending by step
Appoggiatura
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With the bow
Arco
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Broken chord
Arpeggio
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No sense of key
Atonal
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A piece of music in 2 sections - AB form
Binary Form
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Often a solo singer in answered by the chorus
Call and Response
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A short concluding section to a piece of music
Coda
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Getting Louder
Crescendo
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Getting quieter
Diminuendo
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A long held note
Pedal
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Volume - How loud or soft the music is
Dynamics
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Loud
Forte
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Very Loud
Fortissimo
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A slide between two notes
Glissando
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A repeated bass line
Ground Bass
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Chords accompanying a melody
Homophonic
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Smoothly
Legato
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Moderatley Loud
Mezzo Forte
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Moderatley Soft
Mezzo Piano
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Moderatley Soft
Moderato
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When the music changes key
Modulation
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A distance of 8 notes
Octave
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The decoration of melody notes
Ornaments
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Chinese Scale
Pentatonic
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Very Soft
Pianissimo
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Soft
Piano
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When strings are plucked
Pizzicato
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When two melodies weave in and out
Polyphonic
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Very Quick
Presto
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Get Slower
Ritardando
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When notes are played in a short crisp manner
Staccato
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Throwing the stress from the beat to the off-beat
Syncopation
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An electronic instrument which manufactures electronically generated sound
Synthesiser
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A short musical flourish that is typically played by trumpets or other brass instruments
Fanfare
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A repeated musical pattern
Ostinato
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When a group of singer or musicians play or sing the same thing
Unison
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7 note scale (Medieval Scale)
Modal
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A short melodic or harmonic pattern
Riff
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

Getting faster

Back

Accelerando

Card 3

Front

Emphasis on a particular beat

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Note not in the key (Sharp or Flat)

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Slow

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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