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A cappella - ✔✔Unaccompanied singing
Agogo bells - ✔✔Struck clapperless bells found in African and Latin-
American music
Alto - ✔✔A high male or low female voice
Antiphony - ✔✔Music in which two or more groups of performers alternate
each other
Arpeggio - ✔✔A chord played as successful rather than simultaneous
notes
Atonal music - ✔✔Music that is unrelated to a tonic note and so has mo
sense of key
Bar - ✔✔A metric unit represented in print by all of the notes and rests
between vertical lines called barlines
Baroque - ✔✔The period C1600-1700 and it's music
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, Bass - ✔✔A low male voice.
The lowest sounding part of a composition whether for voices or
instruments.
Beat - ✔✔The underlying pulse of metrical music
Bhangra - ✔✔An amalgamation of western pop styles and traditional
Punjabi styles of music
Binary form - ✔✔A musical structure in two sections
Blues scale - ✔✔A scale in which some pitches (blue notes) are performed
slightly flatter than their counterparts in a major scale. The most commonly
altered pitches are the third and seventh degrees.
Bpm - ✔✔Abbreviation of beats per minute
Cadence - ✔✔A point of repose at the end of a phrase, sometimes
harmonised with two cadence chords
Call and response - ✔✔A technique whereby a soloist sings or plays a
phrase to which a larger group responds with an answering phrase
Canon - ✔✔A compositional device in which a melody in one part is later
repeated note for note in another part while the melody in the first part
continues to unfold
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A cappella - ✔✔Unaccompanied singing
Agogo bells - ✔✔Struck clapperless bells found in African and Latin-
American music
Alto - ✔✔A high male or low female voice
Antiphony - ✔✔Music in which two or more groups of performers alternate
each other
Arpeggio - ✔✔A chord played as successful rather than simultaneous
notes
Atonal music - ✔✔Music that is unrelated to a tonic note and so has mo
sense of key
Bar - ✔✔A metric unit represented in print by all of the notes and rests
between vertical lines called barlines
Baroque - ✔✔The period C1600-1700 and it's music
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, Bass - ✔✔A low male voice.
The lowest sounding part of a composition whether for voices or
instruments.
Beat - ✔✔The underlying pulse of metrical music
Bhangra - ✔✔An amalgamation of western pop styles and traditional
Punjabi styles of music
Binary form - ✔✔A musical structure in two sections
Blues scale - ✔✔A scale in which some pitches (blue notes) are performed
slightly flatter than their counterparts in a major scale. The most commonly
altered pitches are the third and seventh degrees.
Bpm - ✔✔Abbreviation of beats per minute
Cadence - ✔✔A point of repose at the end of a phrase, sometimes
harmonised with two cadence chords
Call and response - ✔✔A technique whereby a soloist sings or plays a
phrase to which a larger group responds with an answering phrase
Canon - ✔✔A compositional device in which a melody in one part is later
repeated note for note in another part while the melody in the first part
continues to unfold
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