| Definition | Term | Example Pieces |
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| A form with repeated verses. | |
| A person whose job it is to 'hold' notes for a long period of time, hence the name. | |
| The beginning of homophonic texture being used. Its two pioneers were Dufay and Dunstable | |
| A style of playing that demonstrates a performer's skill. | |
| Unaccompanied singing, perhaps in a chapel. | |
| A group of instruments, one that plays chords, another that plays melody. | |
| A theatrical genre where everything is sung. | |
| A group of instruments that play together that came about in the baroque style period | |
| Music where each part is played by only one instrument. This was prominent in households. | |
| The language of a particular area, aka not latin. | |
| When the music does what the words say | |
| A group of instruments that are usually all the same instrument but of different sizes. | |
| A genre in which a soloist performs virtuostically alongside an orchestra. | |
| A musical form in which an original phrase of music is subtly changed many times over the course of the piece | |
| An instrumental accompaniment that plays one note throughout the piece. | |
| A composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time. | |
| The notes or chords ending a section of music with a feeling of conclusiveness. | |
| A relatively short composition to Latin words made up of short sections in homophony and imitative polyphony. Sometimes an addition to the mass | |
| A secular composition set to a one-stanza poem. | |
| A single line of music. | |
| A musical TEXTURE where one line starts a bit after another. | |
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