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Binary Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔simplest music form; consists of a question and answer section
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Ternary Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ABA form b b b b b




Rondo Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ABACA form
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Sonata Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ABA; derived from ternary form; used by classical and early romantic
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composers
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exposition - development - recapitulation b b b b




Minuet and trio Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔progression from ternary form. Follows simple ABA form
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with a contrasting middle "trio" section
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Fugue Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a contrapuntal form, beginning with an initial theme/"subject" and is
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successively taken up by other parts
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Strophic Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔AAA; the same music is repeated with every stanza of the poem
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12 Bar Blues - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔I I I I
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IV IV I I
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V IV I I
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,AAB form
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Major Pentatonic Scale - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1 2 3 5 6
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Guitar string order (top to bottom) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔E A D G B E
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Theme and Variation Form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔theme is presented and then altered in some way
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Arch form - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ABCBA; symmetrical structure within which a unit of music progresses
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toward a midpoint and then more or less retraces its steps
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Clave rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a syncopated rhythmic pattern, played on the claves, in rumba, son,
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salsa, etc.
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2-3



Tango rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔4/4 music from Argentina; 3-3-2
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Waltz rhythm - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Music in triple meter 3/4, European style, such as Gershwin
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rubato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔flexibility or stretching of tempo, which works against the idea of structure
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ostinato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a musical pattern that is repeated, providing melodic structure in form,
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rhythm, and melody
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ritenuto - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔immediately slower
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, secondary dominant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔an altered chord having dominant relationship to a chord in a
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key other than the tonic typically preceding a specific chord
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grave - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔slow and solemn
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largo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔slow and broad
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adagio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔slow
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lento - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔slow
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allegretto - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔not as fast as allegro
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andante - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔walking b b b




moderato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔moderate/medium b b b




allegro - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔fast
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vivo/vivace - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔lively and brisk b b b b b




presto - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔very fast
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Ionian mode - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔same as major scale (C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C)
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