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    Chord of Tonic Is Modal or Minor Key Dynamic Accent: (Crescendo/diminuendo)

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    Chord of Tonic Is Modal or Minor Key Dynamic Accent: (Crescendo/diminuendo)

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    This document defines and explains various musical terms across three categories: intervals and accidentals, musical devices and techniques, and musical forms and genres. It provides definitions for the tritone, hemiola, agogic accent, diatonic, Alberti bass, tessitura, and other terms. It also outlines common musical forms like binary, ternary, and strophic forms as well as genres such as concerto, fugue, sonata, and symphony.

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    This document defines and explains various musical terms across three categories: intervals and accidentals, musical devices and techniques, and musical forms and genres. It provides definitions for the tritone, hemiola, agogic accent, diatonic, Alberti bass, tessitura, and other terms. It also outlines common musical forms like binary, ternary, and strophic forms as well as genres such as concerto, fugue, sonata, and symphony.

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    Chord of Tonic Is Modal or Minor Key Dynamic Accent: (Crescendo/diminuendo)

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    AP Music Theory: Glossary

    th th
    Tritone: augmented 4 (diminished 5 )
    Hemiola: Division of three to a division of two.
    Agogic Accent:

    1. Longer notated note


    2. Extend not without altering
    3. Extend note with temp
    4. Delay onset of a note

    Diatonic: uses notes in scale


    Alberti Bass: Brocken chord/arppeggiated accompaniment

    - (like Mozart—Classical Era, sometimes Romantic)

    Tessitura: texture, where the main body of notes tend to lie


    Ritardando: Decrease speed
    Accelerando: Increase speed
    Rubato: expressive/rhythmic freedom speeding up and then slowing down tempo
    Polyrhythm: sound of 2 or more conflicting Rhythm
    Picardy Third: Harmonic Devise in European Classical Music

    - Major chord of tonic is modal or minor key

    Dynamic Accent: > < (crescendo/Diminuendo)


    Melismatic: Singing single syllable while moving between several different notes in succession
    Ostinato: Repeated (exactly the same)
    RItenuto: decrease tempo
    Cross rhythm: Shift of beats in a metric pattern (not normal position)

    Genres (category of large form in music)

    1. Concerto: Composition of 3 movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an Orchestra


    2. Fugue: composition in 2 or more voice built on a theme that is introduced in the beginning and recurs
    frequently.
    3. Sonata: composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
    - thematical and harmonic organization of tonal materials of exposition
    - elaborate and contrasted in development
    - resolved harmonically in recapitulation
    4. Symphony: Extended musical Composition. A long and complex sonata for orchestra with wind and
    percussion instrument
    5. Blues, 12-bar: most popular chord progressions in popular music based on the I-IV-V chords of a key.

    Form (small sections)

    1. Binary: composed of two piece or parts


    2. Rounded binary: compositional form with 2 sections in which the second ends with a return to material from
    the first.
    3. Ternary: composed of 3 items
    4. Strophic (vocal): elaborating a piece music by repetition of single formal section (AAA)
    5. Through-composed (vocal): non-repetitive, non-sectional. A song is said to be through-composed if it has
    different music for each stanza of the lyrics. This is in contrast to strophic form, in which each stanza is set to
    the same music

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