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A musical punctuation mark using chord IV - I.
A musical punctuation mark using chord V - VI.
The chord with an added 7th note eg. C,E,G,Bb.
A four note chord, all intervals a minor 3rd eg. C,Eb,Gb,A.
A chord of three notes with both intervals a Major 3rd.
A chord contaning four notes eg. C,E,G,A.
The use of two or more keys at the one time as used by Stravinsky.
Term used for early scales such as Dorian and Aeolian.
The version of the Minor scale used for Harmony.
The version of the Minor scale used for melody.
Crushed dissonant note of the shortest possible duration played before the main note.
A musical ornament : an auxiliary note falling or rising to a harmonized note.
An Ornament: note itself, note above, note itself, note below.
An Ornament: very rapid: Note, note semitone below, the first note again.
An interval of less than a semitone and used frequently in Eastern and Modern music.
An interval of three whole tones or an augmented 4th.
Term used for the set of notes used in a 12 tone composition.
Triplet crotchets in one part against common time crotchets in the other.
Music with three beats in a bar moves to two beats and creates a cross rhythm at a cadence.
Doubling or increasing the note value of a theme.
Reducing the note value of a theme after it has been heard at a slower speed.
Form mainly used for 1st movements.
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Section of music which joins two main parts of a movement together.
The initial statement of a theme or musical idea.
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An extended composition in which the music announced in one voice part, then imitated by other voices in succession.
The main theme of a fugue.
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Section in a Fugue after the subject and at the same time as the answer.
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Entries in a fugue where each part comes in one after the other quickly.
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A less important passage which will link to a major theme.
Listen to and name this Baroque composition for instrumental soloists and orchestra.
The group of the main body of strings in a Concerto Grosso.
The solo group in a Concerto Grosso.
The full orchestra sound in a Concerto Grosso for a section of music which keeps returning.
Used to describe contrasting sections between recurrences of a main theme in a Concerto Grosso and also in Fugues.
Bass line in early compositions up to and including the Baroque period which often used Harpsichord and Cello.
A 20th century method of composition invented by Schoenberg using 12 notes.
A chord or note row turned upside down is in .....
Backwards version of a note row.
Recurring theme symbolizing a character, emotion or object in Wagner Opera for example.
Varese used this term instead of Music to describe his compositions.
Produced on a bowed string instrument by lightly touching the string at certain points.
A group of instruments from the Renaissance/Early Baroque periods.