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The space that music appears to carve out for itself.
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"felt" time
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The "Waltz King" composer.
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Johann Strauss
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A dance music created by Texas-Mexicans.
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Conjunto
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In normal time, or a return to the preceding rate of speed.
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A tempo
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A popular musical style mixing African and Caribbean rhythms created by Jamaican musicians.
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Reggae
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A Russian-born composer who lived in the United States and wrote ballets.
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Igor Stravinsky
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A dance in triple meter.
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Waltz
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Spontaneous muscial invention.
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Improvisation
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Groups or Sets of beats.
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Measures
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A rather slow and charming old French dance in triple meter.
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Minuet
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A style of classical dance that emerged in France during the sixteenth century.
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Ballet
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An American composer who developed his conducting career.
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Leonard Bernstein
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Gradually growing faster.
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Accelerando
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A set of instrumental pieces each in the character of a dance.
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Suite
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The emphasis placed on a beat.
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accent
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A Latin-American dance performed at a moderately slow walklike tempo in 4/4 meter.
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Tango
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The pace with which the music moves.
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Tempo
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Number of Indian tribes in North America.
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More than 300.
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Gradually growing slower.
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Ritardando
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American Ragtime Composer of "The Entertainer" (1868-1917).
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Scott Joplin
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The way music paces itself and moves through time.
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Rhythm
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The aural aspect of music in which a certain number of beats are grouped together.
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Meter
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An Afro-Brazilian dance that is faster and jazzier than the tango.
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Samba
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Deliberate shifts of the accent so that it conflicts with the steady beat and tries to upset the steady pulse.
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Syncopation
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A fixed number of beats in a series that repeats itself over and over.
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Rhythm Cycle
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Another name for the Lakota tribe.
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Sioux
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A dance form that first appeared in the nineteenth century and became popular during the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Ragtime
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