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15 Cards in this Set
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Escapement
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the rebounding of the hammer form the piano string to allow for the ringing
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Counterpoint
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voices go in opposite directions
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Interval
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the distance between any two notes
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Dynamics
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the relative loudness or softness of a pitch
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Timbre/Tone Color
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the quality of a particular sound
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Harmonic Series
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The collection of Pitches
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Equal Temperament
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divides the octave into 12 equal parts
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Just Temperament
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Opposite from Equal Temperament with Pure Intervals
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Well Temperament
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Circular Temperament
Can Play any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune |
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Chromatic Scale
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Contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale
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Overture
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an instrumental composition used in opera to prepare the audience for the drama to follow
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Recitative
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a vocal stylethat is constructed by imitating natural speech inflections
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Serial Music
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a term oftern used for twelve-tone music in which music is constructed by a specific ordering of the twelve chromatic pitches
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Pitch
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the highness or lowness that we hear in a sound and is determined by the frequency of the vibration
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Solfege
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a way of assigning syllables to names of the musical scale
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