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66 Cards in this Set
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Gregorian plainchant
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Vocal music - sung by the monks
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British folk music
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Early emotional music mainly sung by miners, farmers, sailors and villagers
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Serialism
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20th Century innovation using 12-tone note rows - sounds atonal
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Blues
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Music that developed from slavery
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Mode
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Early form of scale - mainly used in plainchant
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Pentatonic
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Scale used in British folk music
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Tone-row
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A series of 12 notes in order consisting of a mixture of sharps and flats
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Whole-tone
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The difference between these notes is always 1, there is a black note in between each note.
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Blue-note
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Extra notes added that are enharmonic within a selected key
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Q+A phrase
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Instruments suggest a musical idea and other players answer
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Anacrusis
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Is the upbeat to a piece of music - like jumping into a swimming pool
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Answering phrase
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Instruments would finish the phrase with some form of musical close
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Perfect cadence
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Chord V-I - a closed finished
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Plagal cadence
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IV-I "arh men"
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Interrupted cadence
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Chord V followed by a suprise chord
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Imperfect cadence
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The piece stops, but suggests that it will continue
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Modulation
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Change of key
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Tonic
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Gin and tonic - home key
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Dominant
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5th of the home key (+5)
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Relative minor
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Sounds sad (-3) from the tonic key
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Relative major
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Sound happy (+3) from the minor key
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Binary form
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2 sections - AB
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Ternary form
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3 sections - ABA
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Rondo
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Recurring sections - ABACAD
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Theme & variations
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Simple theme that is developed e.g. Frere Jacques
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da capo
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Repeat from the beginning
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Coda
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Ending of a piece of music
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Verse
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Section of a song that falls before a chorus
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Chorus
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The main part of a song that falls after a verse
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Intervals
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The difference between notes in a piece of music
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2nd
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e.g. C-D
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3rd
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e.g. C-E
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4th
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e.g. C-F
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5th
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e.g. C-G
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6th
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e.g. C-A
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7th
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e.g. C-B
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Octave
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e.g. from a low C to a high C (up 8 notes)
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Unison
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Parts moving together
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Tone
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e.g. from C to D - there is another note inbetween we call this a tone
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Semi-tone
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e.g. from C to C# - there is no other note inbetween we calle this a semi-tone
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Repetition
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repeating a musical idea or melody
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Inversion
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Rearranging the notes of a chord
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Ascending
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musical ideas going up
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Descending
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musical ideas going down
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Sequence
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Short pattern that ascends or descends
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Motive
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Short melodic or rhythmic idea
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Retrograde
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Playing an idea/tone-row backwards
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Imitation
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Copying another instrument/melody line
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Ornamentation
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How melody lines are decorated mainly in Renaissance and Baroque music
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Passing-note
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A note that falls between to other notes (normally outside of the key)
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Trill
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Fast oscillation between 2 notes (normally above the melody note)
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Turn
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Like a rollercoaster (you play a series of notes that surrounds the main note)
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Grace-note/appoggiatura
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Like a frog jumping acorss a lily pad - this note is a quick note that proceeds the main note
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Soprano
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High female voice
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Alto
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Low female voice
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Tenor
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High male voice
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Bass
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Low male voice
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Baroque orchestra
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Relatively small in size mainly strings led
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Classical orchestral
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Bigger than the Baroque orchestra
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String quartet
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4 string instruments normally violin, viola, cello and doublebass
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Continuo
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Mainly played by the harpsichord - plays chords/moving bass lines
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Choir
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A group of singers (can be mixed)
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Major scale
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Series of notes TT ST TTT ST
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Minor scale
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Series of notes TST TTST TT
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Pentatonic scale
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5 tones/notes
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Raga`
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Series of ordered notes using a mixture of white and black creates an eastern flavour
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