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| stress or define a certain note |
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A cappella
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| performance with no piano accompaniment |
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| raises or lowers pitch by half step |
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Arranger
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| Person who arranges melody and lyrics of a song |
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Articulation
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| speaking with the tounge, teeth, lips |
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| back to the original tempo |
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| divides music into measures |
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Bass Clef
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| Lower part on the grand staff, or f clef |
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| a steady succesion of rhythym |
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| symbol that tells where to breathe |
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| extended section of music within a song |
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Composer
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Cued notes
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| optional harmony written in tiny notes |
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| Duple meter in which the half note is the unit of time |
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| Back to the top or beginning |
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| Sing the beginning again until fine |
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Descant
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| optional line of singing above the melody |
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| End of a line/ tells where to stop |
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| two vowels or sounds put together |
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| stressed beat of a measure |
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| softness and loudness of music |
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Endings- 1st/2nd
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| endings sung after a repeat or for the second time |
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| extend the lengh of a note or chord |
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| lowers a note bya half step |
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Grand Staff
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| lines and spaces on which to put notes, contains g clef and f clef |
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| the distance between two notes |
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| Singing the correct notes; being in tune |
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| combination of flats or sharps that change the tonic note |
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| extended lines and spaces for notes above or below the staff |
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| divisions of a line of music |
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| time signature that indicates which note gets the beat and how may beats per measure |
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| number of beats per note per minute |
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Pick-Up
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| incomplete measure at beginning of music |
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| highness or lowness of a note |
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| repeat a segment of music |
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| longness or shortness of a note |
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| raises a pitch by a half step |
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Soprano
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| highest female voice part |
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| lines and spaces on which to write notes |
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| hold a note across many measures |
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| indicates the type of beat and the number of beats per measure |
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| Treble Clef (choral technique) |
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| Symbol for gclef or upper part of grand staff |
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| Unison (choral technique) |
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| all voice parts on the same melody |
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| Three or more pitches sounding at the same time |
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| The melodic or harmonic ending of a phrase, section, movement, or complete composition |
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| Moving up or down using only half steps, often outside the key; chromatic scale: all twelve half steps within an octave |
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| Step by step movement within a regular scale (any key); a combination of seven whole and half steps(of different pitch name) within a key |
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| two notes that sound the same, but are written differently; ex F# and Gb |
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the smallest distance (or interval) b/w two notes on a keyboard |
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| two or more musical tones sounding simultaneously |
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| the organization of tonality around pitch |
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| Key-Note or Tonic (pitch) |
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| The pitch that is the tonal center of the key; the first tone or "1" or the scale |
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| singing an interval larger than a skip |
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| long groups of notes sung on one line of text; ex Gloooooooooooooooooooria |
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| An inventory or collection of pitches; the word scale means ladder |
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a specific arrangement of whole steps and half steps in the following order: wwhwwwh |
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| a specific arrangement of whole and half steps; natural, harmonic, and melodic minor |
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| The arrangement of a group of vocal and instrumental staffs which all sound at the same time |
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| Singing from line-to-next space or space-to-next line; melodic movement from one note to the next higher or lower scale degree |
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| Singing and interval from line-to-line or space-to-space on the staff (M3) |
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| A musical sound of definete pitch and quality |
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| The pitch that is the tonal center of the key; the first note or "1" of a scale |
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| The combination of two successive half steps |
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| Broadening, becoming slower |
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| a medium or "walking tempo" |
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| becoming faster; a gradual increase in tempo |
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| to appraoch a note from underneath the designated pitch and "slide up to the correct pitch |
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| a slight stress on the indicated note; the note is held for its full value |
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