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17 Cards in this Set
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Accent
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When you play a certain note louder or with more force than the rest.
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Agogic accent
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slightly elongating the length of a note.
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Dynamic accent
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When the note is played louder than the rest.
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Metrical accent
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Accenting a note that is on a downbeat.
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Anacrusis
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Notes played before the standard timing of the piece begins.
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Asymmetrical meter
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meter that is not symmetric, or does not have an even number of beats.
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Augmentation
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Repetition of a part of music but all the beats are twice as long.
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Bar Line
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the vertical line that separates measures.
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Beat
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Basic unit of time/counting in music.
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Compound beat
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A beat that is based off of two's or four's
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Simple beat
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A beat that is based off of three's
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Multimeter
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when there is more than one type of meter in one piece of music.
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Cross rhythm
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playing two different rhythms at the same time.
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Diminution
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Repetition of a part of music with all the rhythms being cut in half.
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Dot, double dot
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adding half the value of a not to it, or adding 3/4 of its value to it.
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Dotted rhythm
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When a note is folowed by a dot.
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Duplet
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when only two notes of a triplet are played.
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