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17 Cards in this Set
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Articulation
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The characteristics of attack and ecay of single tones or groups of tones and the means by which these characteristics are produced
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Rubato
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The practise of altering the relationship between written note values and making the established pulse flexible by accelerating and slowing down the temp
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Ritenuto
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Held back, slowed down. Usually a more sudden reduction in tempo than called for by ritardando and rallentando
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Voice Exchange
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the expansion of a functional area in which two voices exchange chord members...ie: 1 moves to 3 in the bass and 3 moves to 1 in the soprano. This skip is often filled in with a passing tone or a passing chord
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overlapping voices
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A voice-leading error in which one voice overlaps into the register of an adjacent voice on an adjacent beat
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cross (false) relation
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the succession of a pitch in one voice by a chromatic alteration of that pitch in another voice.
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Diatonic
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The collection of several pitch classes that, in some rotation, conform to the pattern of whole and half steps in the major scale. (2) made up of pitches belonging to a given diatonic collection.
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Resolution
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A progression from a dissonant tone or harmony to one that is consonant. In classical tonal harmony, every dissonant tone must be resolved, normally by stepwise motion.`
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Figured Bass
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A bass part to which arabic numbers have been added to indicate the accompanying harmonies. The strict realization in four parts of figured basses is a regular feature of instruction in harmony
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Picardy Third
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The raised of major third of the tonic triad as the final chord in a work otherwise in the minor mode.
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Lead Sheet
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In jazz popular music, a shorthand score or part. It may provide melody, chord symbols, accompanimental figures or lyrics.
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Direct (hidden) intervals
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similar motion into a perfect interval. Permitted only in the inner voices if the soprano moves by step.
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Parallel intervals
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The simultaneous statement of the same melodic interval in two otherwise independant parts of a polyphonic complex at the distance of a perfect 5th of 8ve. Motion like this is prohibited in classic tonal harmony and counterpoint.
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Dissonance
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The percieved instability of a complex of two or more sounds. Dissonsant intervals are those regarded as having an instability that requires resolution to a consonance.
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consonance
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The percieved stability of a complex of two or more sounds. In Western tonal music, consonant intervals are those that are treated as stable and do not require resolution
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Similar Motion
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Both parts move in the same direction but by different intervals
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Parallel Motion
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Motion in two parts simultaneously is parallel if the interval between them remains the same.
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