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214 Cards in this Set
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Atonal
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20th century weird sounding music whch does not belong to any key
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Blues Scale
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A scale used in blues music
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Grace Note
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A note which is "crushed" on to the beginning of another note
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Interval
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The distance in pitch between two notes
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Melismatic
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In singing where a syllable is stretched over many notes
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Modulating
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Changing key
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Relative major
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A major key which has the same key signature as a minor key
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Relative minor
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A minor key which has the same key signature as a major key
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Syllabic
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In singing where one syllable is sung per note
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Tonal
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Music belonging to a major or minor key
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Trill
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Rapid repetition of two notes
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Whole Tone Scale
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A scale made uf of tones- dreamy sounding
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Word Painting
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Using music to create a picture in the mind of the listener
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Word Setting
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Setting words to music
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Chords I,IV,V,VI in major or minor keys
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Chords most commonly used in a piece of music
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Discord/Dissonance
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When notes which are played at the same time "clash"
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Imperfect cadence
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A cadence which makes a piece of music sound unfinished. Eg. The music ends on chord V
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Modal
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Music which is based on a early form of scale
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Modulation to relative major or minor
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Changing key to either the major or minor key with the same key signature
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Passing note
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A discordant link between notes of a chord
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Perfect cadence
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A cadence which makes a piece of music sound finished. Eg. Chord V to chord I
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Suspension
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A chord which sounds dissonant against the rest of a chord and then resolves
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Tierce de Picardie
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A piece of music in the minor key which ends on a major chord
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Cross rhythms
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When two parts are played at the same time with a different pattern of accents or different time signatures
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Groupings in compound time
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Notes which are grouped in 3s per beat
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Groupings in simple time
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Notes which are grouped in 2s or 4s per beat
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Alberti bass
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Broken chords on the piano played in the classical period
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Cadenza
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At the end of a piece to allow the soloist to show off
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Coda
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A section added to the end of a song or instrument to round off
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Counter melody
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A melody played along side another melody which harmonises with it
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Ground bass
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A bass part which is constantly repeated whilst upper parts proceed
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Homophony
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Melody and accompaniment
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Inverted Pedal
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A pedal note played up high instead of down low
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Obbligato
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An extra accompaniment or counter melody
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Pedal
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A note, usually in the bass, which is held on or repeated
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Polyphony
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Music that has many different melodies all combined
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Strophic
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Verse and chorus
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Through composed
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A song which has different music for each verse and no chorus
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A Capella
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Unaccompanied choral music
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Arco
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Playing a string insrument with a bow
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Baritone
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The male voice between tenor and bass
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Col Legno
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Playing a string instrument witht the wooden side if the bow
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Muted
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Play with a mute
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Counter tenor
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Male voice wich reaches higher notes than the tenor voice
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Flutter Tongue
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Rolling an "rrr" while blowing through a wind instrument at the same time
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Fretless bass guitar
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A bass guitar with no fret markings, making it easy to slide
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Glissando
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Sliding from one note to another
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Mezzo soprano
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Female voice which ranges half way between soprano and alto
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Pizzicato
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Playing a string instrument by plucking rather than bowing
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Register
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Distance from the highest note an instrument can play down to the lowest note
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Sitar
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A guitar-like instrument from India
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Slide guitar
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Thr guitarist uses a metal tube or bottleneck around his finger and slides it across the frets to change pitch.
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12 string guitar
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A guitar which has 12 strings instead of 6
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Tremolando/tremolo
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A trembling effect achieved on a string instrument by rapid repetition of a single note
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Tabla
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Drum-like instrument from India
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Vibrato
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A very slight wavering in the pitch of a not which creates a warm tone.
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Aleatoric
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Chance music
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Aria
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Song in an opera for a solo singer
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Boogie Woogie
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Blues style for piano, left hand plays an ostinato and the right hand imporvises
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Cantata
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A religious opera with scenery and costumes
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Chorale/hymn tune
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a hymn sung in German
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Chorus
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A number of singers singing together
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Classical
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Period stretching from 1750-1810, time of Mozart and Haydn
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Country
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American style of popular music which features fiddle, banjo, piano, guitar and drums.
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Dixeland
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New Orleans jazz music, popular for ensemble improvisations and instrumental solos. Performend by a small group of players
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Imperssionist
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Dreamy sounding music from the 20th Century
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Indian
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Music originating from India
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Minimalist
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20th Century music featuring constantly repeated notes with very slight changes.
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Oratorio
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A religious Opera
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Passion
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The story of easter
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Piborch
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Highland bagpipe music
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Recitative
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Part of an opera that is half spoken and half sung bu a solo singer, very often accompanied. Written to mimic speech patterns, with varying speed and pitch
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Scherzo
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A joky, fast piece of music.
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Soul
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Afro-American popular music including elements of blues and gospel; conveys very stron emotions.
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Answer
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The phrase following the opening phrase of a tune
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Ascending
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Going Upwards
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Broken Chords
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Notes of a chord played separately one after the other
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Chromatic
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A tune or scale with black notes in it
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Descending
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Going Down
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Imitation
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Instruments copying one another
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Leaping
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Music jumps around leaving gaps in between
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Major
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Happy sound
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Minor
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Sad sound
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Pentatnoic
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Music using a 5 note scale
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Phrase
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A musical sentence
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Question
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The opening phrase of a tune
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Repetiton
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Repeated music
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Semitone
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The distance from a white note to the black note beside it
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Sequence
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Pattern of notes repeated higher or lower
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Stepwise
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Moving to the nearest note
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Theme
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An important tune
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Tone
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A distance of two semitones
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Variation
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When the theme is changed slightly
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Ornament
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Decoration
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Accelerando
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Getting Faster
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Accent
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Notes at the beginning of a phrase before the strong beat.
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Anacrusis
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Notes at the beginning of a phrase before the strong beat.
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Beat/pulse
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Way of measuring time
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Compound
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Music with dotted notes E.g. 6/8, 9/8
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Down beat
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The first beat in the bar
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Drum fill
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Fancy drum rhythm played round the kit
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Off the beat
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Music played after the beat, giving it a boucy feel
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On the beat
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Music played strictly on the beats of the bar
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Pattern
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A repeated rhythm or phrase
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Pause
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A note held longer than written
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Rallentando
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Getting slower
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Scotch Snap
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Short note followed by a longer note, used in a strathspey
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Simple
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Music with a time signature like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
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Syncopation
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off beat music with a bouncy feel
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Up-beat
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the note before the first beat of the bar
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rubato
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playing about with speed. alternating fast/slow
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a tempo
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return to original speed
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baroque
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music from the 17th and 18th century
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blues
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a slow jazz song which is often sad
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boogie woogie
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an energetic piano style
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bothy balads
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scottish folk song about work sung by a funny wee man
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fanfare
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flourish of notes for trumpets to announce the arrival of someone important
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gaelic psalm
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unacommpanied hymn in gaelic
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ghanian
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african drum esemble
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indonesian gamelan
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an indonesian orchestra made up of tuned gongs, drums, metallophones and other purcussion instruments
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jazz
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syncopated in which inprovisation is often an important part
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jig
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a fast dance in compound time (jag-a jig).
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latin American
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music based on dance rythme from south america
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march
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music for marching to, often eith four beats in the bar
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mouth music
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sung to nonsence words
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opera/musical
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a play set to music
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ragtime
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early form of jazz, usually for piano. E.G the entertainer
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reel
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a fast scottish dance with four beats in the bar
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rock/pop
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a type of popular music
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romantic
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music of the 19th century in which the composer is seeking an emotional effect on the listener
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samba
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latin american massed percussion, particulary associated with the annual carnival in rio de janeiro, brazil
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salsa
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fast, latin american dance from cuba
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scat singing
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improvised jazz singing, e.g. ba da doo de
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scottish
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music eith certain characteristics originated in scottish
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scots ballad
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scottish song sung in english
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slow air
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a slow scottish song
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strathspey
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a slow scottish dance with 4 beats in the bar and scotch snaps
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swing
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a style of music used by the big bands of the 1930s and 1940s
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vamp
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a simple piano accompaniment, "oom cha".
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waltz
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a dance with three beats in the bar
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waulking song
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scottish song sung yb woman processing tweed. a thumping soudn can be clearly heard in the back groung
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accompanied
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instruments in the background
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binary
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music in two section; ab
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canon
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a mrlody is played before it is finished another instruments starts playing the smae melody from the start this can happen a gain and again with other instruments joinig in. this results in ther same melody being played at different times.
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chord
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2 or more notes played at the same time
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cluster
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notes which are very close together. played et the same time. it si very un pleasant sounding
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concerto
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music for solo instrument accompanied by the orchestra
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descant
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fancy melody for voices sung above the main melody
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esemble
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a group of players or singers
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fanfare
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flourish of notes for trumpet
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harmony
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notes which combine with the melody to produce to a pleasant sound
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improvisation
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music which is made up on the spot. very poopular in jazz music
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minuet and trio
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dance in 3/4 time
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octave
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the distance of 8 notes.e.g. from c to high c
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ostinato
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a group of notes or rythwhich are repeated over and overme
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programme music
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music which has been composed to set a scene or tell a story
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riff
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a short tune repeated in jazz or rock
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rondo
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music in the form ABACABAD
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Solo
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Alone
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Symphony
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Music written for a large orchestra
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Ternary
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Music in 3 sections; ABA
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Theme and Variation
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A piece of music where the main theme is slighty changed each time it is played
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Unison
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All singing, playing the same thing
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Round
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A song is sung. Before the singer has finished another singer starts singing thee same from the start. Eg Frere Jacque
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Walking bass
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Bass line which moves up by step. Used in jazz and rock n roll
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Contrary Motion
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2 melodies going on opposite directions
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Coda
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An extra ending
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Acoustic
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Instrument which produce their sound with electricity
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Alto
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Low female voice
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Backing vocals
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Additional voices in the background
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Bass
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Lowest male voice
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Blowing
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Blowing air through a musical instrument to produce a a sound
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Delay
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An effect where their is a time delay between playing a note and actually hearing it
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Distortion
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Effect often used on a guitar which changes the tone of a note
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Electronic
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Instrument whose sounds is produced or amplified by the use of electricity
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Electronic drums
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A drumkit which uses electricity to make its sounds
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Fiddle
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The scottish name for a violin
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Folk group
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Group of musicians playing or singing using traditional instruments
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Gamelan
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Set of various tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments which originated in Indonesia
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Ghanian Drum Ensemble
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A drum group from Western Africa
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Guitar, Acoustic
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Non electric guitar
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Guitar, Bass
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Electric guitar whch plays low notes
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Clarsach
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A scottish harp
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Jazz group
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Group of musicians playing jazz music. Each musicians ,ust be able to improvise. Instruments include piano, saxaphone, clarinet, double bass, trumpet, drums and singer
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Latin Percussion Ensemble
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A group of instruments from South America which includes agogo bells,bongos, congas etc
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Lead Vocals
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The main voices in a song
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Legato
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Notes played smoothly
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Military Band
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Marching band with woodwind, brass and percussion
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Orchestra
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A gropu of musicians playing instruments from the four families of the orchestra- strings. Woodwind, brass and percussion
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Organ
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A keyboard instrument which cand be found in the church
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Panpipes
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Different lenghts of tubes tied together. Blow through the tubes to make a sound- the shorter tubes make higher sounds and the longer tubes make the lower sounds
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Pipe band
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Bagpipes and drums
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Pop group
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A group who sing and play popular music. The instrumets they normally use are keyboards, guitars and a drum kit
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Plucking
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Getting a sound from a string instrument by pulling the strings with your fingers
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Reverb
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An echo effect
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Rock band
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A group who sings and plays rock music. They play on keyboards, electric guitars and drum kit
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Slapping
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Style of bass guitar playing where the thumb slaps the strings
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Scottich dance band
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Band for accompanying Scottish dancing with 1 or 2 accordians, violin (fiddle), piano, double bass and drums
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Silence
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No sound
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Soprano
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The highest sounding female
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Staccato
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Notes that are very short and crisp
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Steel band
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Group who plays drums made from oil drums which have their tops dented so that they can produce different notes
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Sustained
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Notes that are held on
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Synthesiser
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Electronic keyboard that produces sounds or changes given sounds
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Tenor
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High male voice
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Wind band
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A group of musicians playing woodwind, brass and persussion- NO STRINGS
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Chord change
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Changing from one chord to the next in a tune
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Consonance
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Notes played at the same time which sounds good together
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Dissonance
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Notes which are played at the same time which are harsh sounding
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Modulation
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Changing key
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Vamp
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Chordal accompaniant "omm-cha" style
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Drone
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Low, held on note, often used in bagpipes
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Crescendo
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Getting louder
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Diminuendo
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Gettin softer
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