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Reel |
Moderately quick dance in duple meter danced throughout the British Isles: the most popular Irish traditional dance type. |
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Refrain |
Text or music that is repeated within a larger form |
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Regal |
Small medieval reed organ |
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Reggae |
Jamaican popular music style characterized by offbeat rhythms and chanted vocals over a strong bass part; often associated with the religious movement Rastafarianism |
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Register |
Specific area in the range of an insturment or voice |
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Registration |
Selection or combination of stops in a work for organ or harpsichord |
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Relative Key |
The major and minor key that share the same key signature For example D minor is the relative minor of F major both having one flat.
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Repeat Sign |
Musical symbols that indicates repetition of a passage in a composition |
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Requiem Mass |
Roman Catholic Mass for the dead |
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Resolution |
Conclusion of musical idea as in the progression from an active chord to a rest chord |
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Response |
Short choral answer to a solo verse; an element of liturgical dialogue |
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Responsorial singing |
Singing, especially in Gregorian chant, in which a soloist or a group of soloists alternates with the choir. (call-and-response) |
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Restatement |
(Recapitulation) Third selection of sonata-allergo in which the thematic material of the exposition is restated generally in the tonic. |
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Retrograde |
Backwards statement of the melody |
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Retrograde Inversion |
Mirror image and backward statement of the melody |
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Rhythm |
The controlled movement of music in time |
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Rhythm and blues |
Popular African-American music style in 1940's through the 1960's featuring a solo singer accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble (piano, guitar, double bass, drums, tenor sax) driving rhythms and blues and pop song forms. |
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Rhythmic modes |
Fixed rhythmic patterns of long and short nodes popular in the thirteenth century |
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Rhythmic variation |
The procedure in which note lengths meter, or tempo is altered. Often used in theme and variations form |
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Riff |
In jazz, a short melodic ostinatio over changing harmonies |
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Ring shout |
Religious dance performed by African-American slaves, performed with hand clapping and a shuffle step to spirituals |
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Ripieno |
The larger of the two ensembles in the Baroque concerto grosso. also tutti
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Ritardando |
Holding back, getting slower |
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Ritornello |
Short, recurring instrumental passage found in both the aria and Baroque concerto |
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Rock |
A style of popular music with roots in rock and roll but differing in lyric content,recording technique, song length, and the range of sounds. The term was first used in the 1960's to distinguish groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones from earlier artists. |
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Rockabilly |
An early style of rock and roll, fusing elements of blues, rhythm and blues, and country-western music. |
