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- 3. inventor of the solid-body electric guitar, overdubbing, and delay
- 6. the african precursor to the banjo
- 9. amount of quarter notes played in the span of 60 seconds
- 10. the art of balancing multiple melodic lines
- 11. -- Tape Cartridge; the precursor to the compact casette
- 14. texture characterized as 2 or more variations of a melodic line heard at once
- 16. for bowed string instruments, the technique of hitting the strings with the wood of the bow, abbr.
- 17. prefix used to label music predecessing a certain movement or genre
- 18. the harmonic interplay of 2 or more pitches
- 21. genre of urban music from Brazil that heavily draws on the country's traditional styles
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- 1. the band credited with inventing heavy metal
- 2. considered the greatest baroque composer
- 4. the quality of a sound separate from pitch
- 5. repeat
- 7. the most standard anglo-eurocentric tuning system
- 8. a music education method; assigning syllables to notes of a scale
- 12. the technique of prolonging notes and moving them into one another smoothly
- 13. the closing section of a piece
- 15. genre of rhythmic dance music originating in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the '90s
- 19. medieval instrument operayed with a crank
- 20. frequency at which a record fully rotates; e.g. 33, 78