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- 1. The word bass describes the lower register and lower sonorities in music
- 3. originated in new Orleans and is very original type of music
- 4. styles of music
- 6. Relating to music produced by instruments, as opposed to electric or electronic means
- 10. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three persons
- 11. One or more vocalists performing without an accompaniment.
- 13. A measurement of time in music that contains a specific number of pulses defined by a time signature, and that is contained within bar lines.
- 14. A rhythmic succession of musical tones, a melody for instruments and voices.
- 15. Instruments stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings
- 17. The piece of cane in wind instruments. The players cause vibrations by blowing through it in order to produce sound.
- 18. A composition written for eight instruments.
- 20. A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater
- 21. Group of singers in a chorus.
- 23. The unit of measure where the beats on the lines of the staff are divided up into two, three, four beats to a measure.
- 24. One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark, melancholic mood.
- 26. musical instrument that has an arm that extends
- 27. compacted form of digital music
- 28. A symbol indicating to play loud.
- 30. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
- 31. A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers
- 32. Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously.
- 34. A composition based on previous work. A common technique used in Medieval and Renaissance music.
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- 2. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
- 5. The element of music pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
- 7. A large group of instrumentalists playing together.
- 8. The unit of musical rhythm.
- 9. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
- 12. A piece of music written for two vocalists or instrumentalists.
- 16. plays music
- 19. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony.
- 21. A group singing in unison.
- 22. something you listen to
- 24. One of the two modes of the tonal system. Music written in major keys have a positive affirming character.
- 25. instrument Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments
- 27. An identifiable succession of musical sounds.
- 29. The organization of all the tones and harmonies of a piece of music in relation to a tonic.
- 31. System of notes or tones based on and named after the key note.
- 33. instrument A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips
- 34. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.