Description

a person who writes, especially as a professional occupation
a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string,woodwind, brass and percussion sections and playing classical music
a person who plays a musical instrument
relating to or having the form or character of a symphony
a work of music, literature, or art
the principal part in harmonized music
one of the names for notes of musical scale in solmization
singing in unison, texts in a free rhytm
a group singing in unison
a composition written for two vocalists or instrumentalist
a piece written and sung for two people
pleasing combinations of tone played together
the unit measure where the beats on the lines of the staff are divided up into two,three and four beats to a measure
the study of forms, history,science,and methods of music
a repeated phrase
a composition based on previous work
the frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds
a solo concert with or without accompaniment
the principal note of a traid
successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending
a symbol indicating the note is to be raised be one semitone
the highest female voice
three notes chords consisting of a root, third, and fifth
the raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument
a period in the history of music
the regular rhythmic pattern of the music
music written for chorus and orchestra
the keyboard of a stringed instrument
the first violin in an orchestra
lowest female singing
a direction to play expressively
a symbol indicating that the note is to be diminished by one semitone
sliding between note
vocal compsition written written for three or more solo parts
a type of rim shot use in latin music
music that is easy to listen to/understand
music produced by instruments
musical produced by instruments
slowly and seriously
closing section of movement
painfully distressed
continuing sound
pronunciation of a sentence

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