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- 2. Widely use keyboard instrument of great range and versatility, whose sound is produced by felt covered hammer, striking against steel strings
- 4. The highness or lowness of a sound
- 6. Fast
- 8. Tone combination that is unstable and tense
- 13. In Baroque music, an instrumental composition in several movements for one to eights players. In music after the baroque period, an instrumental composition usually in several movements for one or two players.
- 14. A sequence of notes that form a musical idea
- 15. Very Slow and very soft throughout
- 16. A sequence of chords that brings a phrase to a close
- 17. Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than that of the mass; one of the two main forms of sacred Renaissance Music
- 18. note or scale the music is organized with
- 19. The pattern of sounds and silences in music
- 23. a repeated section of music usually played by the full orchestra, or tutti, in baroque compositions
- 26. The interval between one note and another with double its frequency
- 27. Series of pitches, arranged in order from low to high or high to low
- 28. Period of silence/break
- 29. Text of an opera
- 32. motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch, used in music of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to stabilize a group of pitches
- 34. sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously
- 36. A gradual increase in loudness
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- 1. The speed at which a piece of music is played
- 3. MOderately fast
- 4. Very fast
- 5. Combination of three or more tones sounded at once
- 6. Becoming faster
- 7. Becoming slower
- 9. a dynamic marking meaning loud
- 10. Musical style using 12 notes western style using sharps and flats then using notes of a diatonic scale
- 11. Very slow, solemn
- 12. tempo that is going "walking pace"
- 14. Single melodic line without accompaniment
- 17. organization of beats into regular groups
- 20. The combination of different notes played or sung together
- 21. Very loud
- 22. symbol placed at beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes placed on each line or space
- 24. Lively
- 25. Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time
- 30. "Distance" in pitch between any two tones
- 31. The unique tone color or quality of a sound
- 33. Regular recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
- 35. how high and low notes can go in musical rage
