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Music words
Term | Definition |
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Anacrusis | notes before the first bar line of a piece or passage |
Broken Chord | Chords broken up into seperate notes |
Interrupted Cadence | V - vi |
Sustained Note | Pedal’ed notes |
Timpani Roll | hand to hand single stroke rolls - NOT bounce / buzz rolls |
Triplets | playing three notes in the space of two |
Baroque | About 1600 to 1750 |
Classical | About 1750 to 1820 |
Romantic | About 1798 to 1837 |
Melody | The tune of the piece |
Dynamics | The volumes/changes in volumes in the piece |
Brass Instruments | Trumpet Trombone Tuba French horn Cornet Euphonium Flugelhorn Baritone horn Mellophone Bugle Tenor horn Piccolo Helicon Slide trumpet Buccina |
Woodwind Instruments | |
Soprano | |
Alto | |
Tenor | |
Bass | |
Unaccompanied | |
Perfect | V - I |
Imperfect | IV - I |
Major scale | Happy |
Ascending | Notes/pitches increase |
Descending | Notes/pitches decrease |
Structure | |
Double Bass | |
Features of Jazz | |
Syncopation | Offbeat |
Tempo | The beats per minute |
Minor Key | Sad/dramatic 3b, 6b, 7b (dependent on the kind) |
Venue of performance | |
Duet | Two people |
Trio | Three people |
Quartet | Four people |
Quintet | Five people |
Version 2 is different | |
Version 1 is different | |
Time signature | The amount of beats per bar |
Violin | |
Viola | |
Cello | |
Pitch | |
Key Signature | |
Musical characteristic of sadness | |
Type of ensemble | |
Cymbal | |
Glockenspiel | |
Snare Drum | |
Timpani | |
3/4 | 3 crotches per bar - waltz feel |
2/4 | 2 crotches per bar - marching feel |
6/8 | 6 quavers per bar - |
12/ 8 | 12 quavers per bar - |
Chords I V iv i | Pop chord progression (major) |
Strophic | Verse-repeating form (AAAAA) |
32 bar long | |
Verse chorus form | |
Vocal part features | |
Piano features | |
Pop | |
Bhangra | |
Fusion | |
Rock |