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18 Cards in this Set
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Accelerando
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tempo gradually gets faster
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Accidental
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symbols such as sharps or flats and naturals that raise or lower a pitch.
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Adagio
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slow speed (not too slow)
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Allegro
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fast tempo / speed
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Andante
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play the music at a moderately slow speed.
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Bar Line
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a vertical line on the staff to separate measures in a composition.
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Beam
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a straight line connecting two or more notes such as eighth and sixteenth notes.
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Beat
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a musical pulse or unit of time / the steady pulse of music.
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Chord
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a combination of three or more notes sounding at the same time / multiple notes sounding simultaneously (Ex. A C Major chord may consist of the notes C-E-G.)
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Clef |
a symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to indicate names of lines and spaces.
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Conductor
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the director of a group of musicians.
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Crescendo |
gradually get louder
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Decrescendo
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gradually get softer
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Dot |
a small symbol placed to the right of a note that increases the duration of the note by one half.
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Dynamics
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symbols that indicate a change in volume of a song. (The students played the music louder and softer, as indicated by the dynamics written on the music.)
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Enharmonic
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Two notes that sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Fermata
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a pause in the music, indicated by this sign.
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Flat |
a symbol written to the left of a note that lowers the pitch by a half step.
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