| Definition | Term | Letter |
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| Adjective meaning 'composed through chance procedures' | |
| Written in two keys at once | |
| Literally 'fixed song': a melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition | |
| Adjective referring to 12-tone music | |
| In brass and woodwind playing, the mode of application of the lips to the mouthpiece | |
| Two-word phrase describing a chord where the third is placed in the bass | |
| Acciaccatura or appoggiatura, e.g. | |
| Specific male voice type with power and a wide range, typical of many Wagnerian roles | |
| Mode equivalent to a major scale | |
| '___ intonation': tuning to a single scale, as distinguished from 'equal tempered' tuning | |
| Named for the botanist who first cataloged Mozart's works, one of these is assigned to each of them | |
| Seventh degree of a major scale, which tends to move upwards to the tonic | |
| Traditional Polish dance introduced into concert music by Chopin | |
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| 'Not too much' | |
| Term indicating a usually simplified alternative version of a musical passage | |
| Term applied to a major chord appearing at the end of a minor-key piece | |
| Literally, 'what pleases': a composition made up of popular tunes or fragments thereof | |
| Referring to a decorative musical style, such as that of Couperin | |
| Light soprano taking rather pert roles in opera and operetta | |
| Interval known as 'diabolus in musica' (the devil in music) | |
| Name for 'do' in original system developed by Guido d'Arezzo | |
| Term applied to the 'realistic' school of Italian opera | |
| Brass instrument, similar to a horn, invented for 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' | |
| Hybrid wooden percussion instrument with five-octave range | |
| Spanish operatic form in which music is intermingled with spoken dialogue | |
| This instrument, combined with another | |
| Be more specific | |
| Dominant follwed by sub-mediant | |
| Four-note ornament | |
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