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48 Cards in this Set
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Cadences
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Pair of chords used to finish a phrase
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Chromatic
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Notes that don't belong to a certain key. Scale uses all notes with an octave.
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A time that doesn't have a regular beat.
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Complex time.
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Compound time
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Tume signature where each main beat is split into 3 little ones.
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Sonata
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Piece of music in 3 or 4 movements for a soloist or duet
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The duration of notes played n a certain pattern
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Rhythm
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The type of sound an instrument makes
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Timbre
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The way chords and melody are woven together
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texture
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Syncopation
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The accents are shifted from the main beat to a weaker beat to avoid regular rhythm
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Play in a trembly nervous sounding way
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Tremolo
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Word Painting
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Where the music matches the words or or action
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Tone poem
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A type of programme music. Also called a symphonic poem
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Sitar
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A large, long-necked string instrument ised in Indian Classical music with between 4 and 7 strings. Up to 5 strings are plucked for the melody and the other 2 create drone notes.
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Tabla
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Drums used in Indian Classical Music
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Tambura
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Similar in shape to the sitar, but wiuth only four metal strings. Used as a backing instrument in Indian classical music.
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Tag
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2 or 4 extra steps addes to a basic to make it fit to the music in American Line Dancing
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Serialism
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A twentieth centurycomposng system in which all 12 chormatic notes are used
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Ragtime
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A type of music popular in early 20th century America with syncopated rhythms. Jazz came from ragtime music.
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Quantising
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Adjusting rhythms with a computer to get perfect timing
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montuno
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The chorus in a salsa tune
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Mixing
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When different records are mixed together to create continuous club dance music.
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Milonga
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A style of music from Argentina and Uruguay influencing the tango.
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Mbube
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A type of African a capella singing with high pitched lead vocals. It's loud and powerful.
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Mambo
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A break between choruses in salsa
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Jhor
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The second phase of a typical raga performance. Faster than the alap.
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Jhala
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The third phase of a typical raga performance. faster than the alap and the jhor.
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Isicathamiya
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A type of african a capella singing with dance moves. It's soft and gentle and uses call and responses.
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Gongan
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The rhythmic cycle in Gamelan music.
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Gong ageng
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The biggest hanging gong used in Gamelan music. It plays on the last beat of the cycle.
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Gender
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A percussion instrument with the narrow bronze keys over bamboo pipes in Gamelan music.
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Gat
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A song that forms the final phase of a raga performance, played n instruments rather than sung. Known as bandish if it's sung.
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Gambang
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A xylophone with wooden bars in Gamelan music.
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Dixieland jazz
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Music that was a mix of brass band marches, ragtime and blues that came from New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Concerto Grosso
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A baroque for a small group of soloists and orchestra.
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Bonang
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Instruments with two rows of gongs on a wooden frame, used in Gamelan music
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Bodhran
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An irish framed drum
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Basso continuo
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A continuous bass part in Baroque music often played on the harpsichord.
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Bandoneon
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A type of accordion used in Tango music.
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Balungan
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The main melody of Gamelan. This is its Javanese name - in Bali it's called the pokok.
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Ambient
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Slow, chilled club dance music that sounds out of this world
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Alap
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The first phase of a rage performance
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Hemiola
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A musical figure in which, typically, two groups of three beats are replaced by three groups of two beats.
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Heterophony
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Music that is made up of lots of different versions of the same tune (like Gamelan)
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Antiphony
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Another term for call and response. A short melody (the call) followed by an answering phrase (the response)
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Rondo
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A away of structuring music so you start with one tune, go on to a new one, go back to the first one, on to another new one, back to the first one...as many times as you like.
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Leitmotif
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A theme that keeps popping up in a film or an opera. I could represent a character or a place.
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Consequent
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The second phrase in a musical period, in a fugue, the answer.
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Antecedent
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Within a period of a melodic line, the antecedent phrase usually ends on a pitch other than the tonic and the consequent phrase usually ends on the tonic note
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