Music key terms

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Accented passing note
A type of on beat dissonance which occurs between two consonant notes a 3rd apart.
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Alberti Bass
Broken chord accompanying pattern consisting of low high middle high.
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Antecedent phrase
The first half of an uneven periodic phrase, usually ending on the dominant chord.
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Appogiatura
An unprepared dissonance
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Arch form
An extended ternary form in which the last two sections are a modified repeat of the first two.
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Atonal
Music that is not in a key.
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augmentation
to make long- in the case of motivic development, to take a motivic idea and use the same melodic shape but with longer rhythmic values.
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Augmented 6th chord
a chromatic chord which has flattened submediant (6th) as its lowst bass note and contains in the chord an interval of an augmented 6th and moves to the dominant.
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Broken chord
Melodic or accompanimental movement in 3rds that outlines a triad with the notes seperated like an arpeggio.
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Cadential 6/4
A second inversion chord
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Chromatic chord
a chord which contains notes from outside of the prevailing key.
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chromatic scale
a scale involving notes from outside of the key with movement in semitones.
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Chromatic
Use of notes outside of the key
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Circle of 5ths
An harmonic sequence of chords/keys involving successive progressions to a chord/key a perfect 5th below. This effectively creates a series of perfect cadences.
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Coda
the final section of movement which, in tonal music, confirms the tonic key.
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Codetta
the final section of the exposition of a sonata form structure.
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Concertino
The name of a small group of soloists in concerto grosso
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Concerto grosso
a genre in which contrasts a group of solois called the concertino who play with a larger, tutti ensemle called the ripieno.
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conjunct
The movement of melodic line by step- tones and semitones.
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Consequent phrase
The second half of an even periodic phrase- usually ending on the tonic chord.
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Counterpoint
Two or more independent melodic lines occuring simultaniously (contrapuntal)
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Development
beginning in the dominant and moving through many keys
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Diatonic
Use of notes within the key
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Diminished 7th
A chroatic chord which when rearranges consists of notes all a minor third apart.
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Disjunct
The moevment of melodic line in leaps- of a 4th or more.
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Dissonance
An interval that requires resolution for example the interval of a 7th.
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episode
The sections in ritornello form that contain musical material that contrasts with the ritornello.
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exposition
with the 1st subject in the tonic and the 2nd subject in the dominant often linked by a transition section.
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Fortepiano
The most likely keyboard instrument that Mozart's piano sonatas would have been performed on. Smaller than a modern day piano, but capable of dynamic contrast.
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Fortspinnung
a compositional term that describes the process in which motifs are constantly developed with a contrapuntal texure.
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functional harmony
Describes harmony that consolidates a sense of key through a variety of techniques including perfect cadences, pedal notes, functional sequences, modulating to related keys and the use of primary triads in root position and first inversion.
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Harmonically charged
A term that describes triadic or scalic melodic lines whose purpose is to outline the chords that harmonise it.
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Hemiola
A rhythmic device in which groups of three are articulated as three groups of two- for example a bar of 6/8 written as three groups of two quavers.
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Homorhythm
An extreme form of Homophony where all parts play the same rhythm.
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Idiomatic
Music written for a specific instrument, expoiting the specific technical capabilities of that instrument.
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Melody dominated homophony
A texture involving melody with accompaniment
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Modulate
To change key
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Monophonic
A single musical line
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Motif
An important fragment of a theme that is continually referred to and developed throughout a work.
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Motto theme
a theme of central importance that recurs within a composition and is subject to development.
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neapolitan 6th chord
a chromatic chord. It is the flattened, major version of chord 2- so D flat major in the key of C in fist inversion. Resolves to the dominant.
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Neoclassical
A 20th century style of composition opular partcularly in the opening decades, where the composer would deliberately copy and satirise (poke fun at) musical features from baroque, classical or romantic period.
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Non-functional
Harmony and tonality that fails to consolidate a key.
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ornamentation
melodic decoration such as a trill
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perfect cadence
chord V-I
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periodic phrasing
even and regular phrasing consisting of two even halves, an antecedant phrase and a consequent phrase.
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Preperation
Occurs within a supsension. the dissonant note is sounded prior to it being dissonant as a consonant note with a different chord.
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sequence
a melodic pattern repeated at a different pitch.
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Broken chord accompanying pattern consisting of low high middle high.

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Alberti Bass

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The first half of an uneven periodic phrase, usually ending on the dominant chord.

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An unprepared dissonance

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An extended ternary form in which the last two sections are a modified repeat of the first two.

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