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42 Cards in this Set
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Prelude
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Composition for keyboard or opening for musical theatre
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Primitive
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Artists who are self taught
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Producer
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Person responsible for financing productions
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Program music
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textual reference to a piece of music
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Protagonist
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Leading character ina theatrical production
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Ragtime
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Jazz style/regular rhythms/syncopation
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Raked stage
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Stage floor w/back higher than front
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Recitative and aria
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words recited on pitch w/melodic extended air
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Relief
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sculpture projecting from backstage beam
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Reliquary
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Receptacle for religious relic
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Renaissance
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Historical era betw 1400 and 1699
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Retalbo
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Religious altar panal in a church
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Rhythm
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Movement of a uniform or patterned recurrence
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Ride-rhythm
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repeated rhythm played by a drum or a cymbal to keep time
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Riff
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Melodic fragment repeated by a group (usually jazz)
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Rising action
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Major focus of a plot development
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Romantic
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style emphasizing emotion free imagination
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Rondo
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Musical form with three diff sections
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Scale
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An arrangement of seven tones systematically from A to G
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Scene designer
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Creator of physical environment for a play
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Sfumato
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a three dimensioned style used by Leonardo
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Simple meter
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meter divisible by 2 (2/4, 2/2, 2/8, etc)
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Sonata allegro
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musical form based on contrasting themes and tonalities
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Stage manager
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monitor of a play/opera in production
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Stele
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Commemorative stone marker
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Stupa
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Shrine in shape of a dome or mountain
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Style
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Particular type, more, or expression
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Sub-dominant
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closely related to key center, 4th scale step
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Swing
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big band jazz marked by smooth flowing beat natalie is a butt head
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Symphony
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orchestra itself or music written for one natalie smells like feet
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Syncopation
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deliberate disturbance of the normal pulse in music natalie is half retarded
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Tap
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Dance style emphasizing rhythm and time natalie eats cereal with a fork
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Tempo
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Speed music natalie velasquez rodriguez
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Theme
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Central idea of a play or music composition natalie velasquez is a cunt
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Timbre
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Unique acoustic quality natalie stop reading this
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Tin pan alley
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Slang for anything connected with popular song composition natalie=drunk
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Tonic
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Key center, first scale step name or chord based on first scale name natalie and paula= lovers
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Tragedy
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A disastrous event carried to an unhappy conclusion
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Triplet
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Three notes performed in the space of two
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Vaudeville
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Late 19th century musical theatre
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Vault
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Ceiling design on the arch principle of construction
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Ziggurat
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Ancient Mesopotamian structure with terraces and sloping sides
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