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The number of times the chords change per bar | |
The main melody of a jazz song generally played at the beginning | |
In triple time this is a harmonic device often used towards a cadence in which notes are grouped in two beat units | |
Two of more parts playing the same melodic line simulatenously with small variations between the parts | |
A group of six notes selected from the twelve available pitches that are used as a musical motif or chord | |
Common music texture where all parts move together | |
A cadence ending on chord five which sounds incomplete usually proceeded by chord i, ii or iv. | |
A style of music that seeks to describe a feeling or experience rather than achieve accurate depiction | |
A sustained (or repeated) note (s) in the middle of a musical texture | |
Chord v followed by chord vi | |
Distance between any two notes | |
A method of developing a series by turning all the intervals upside down so as to create a mirror image of the original series | |
The third section of a raga and the climax of the whole piece. A lively tempo and virtuoso display of improvisatory skills | |
The second section of a raga, a medium tempo with improvisation | |
Literally 'tone colour melody'. A word used to describe how timbre contributes to melody in addition to pitch and rhythm | |
The text/words of a music works such as an opera or oratorio | |
A section of a piece of music which is edited so that it can be repeated seamlessly by electronic means | |
Western tonal music in a bright sounding key | |
Individual beats in a rhythmic cycle | |
The sliding effect between notes in Indian music | |
Category of instruments that have a drum skin | |
Western tonal music in solomn sounding keys | |
A jazz-style in which the soloist base their solos in modes instead of the chord changes | |
The precursors of modern scales | |
When the music changes key | |
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