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Question	Answer
a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody	Descant
The end of a piece or section on chord V	Imperfect Cadence
The end of a piece or section on chord I, usually from chord V	Perfect Cadence
Multiple notes sung per syllable	Melismatic
One note sung per syllable	Syllabic
a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it	Trill
a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously	Arpeggio
A bright tonality	Major
A mellow tonality	Minor
A musical flourish added to the melody	Ornament
Multiple ascending or descending notes played by step	Scale
Time where the beat is not split into 2	Compound time
Time where the beat is split into 2	Simple Time
(of tempo) moderate	Moderato
(music) gradually decreasing in tempo	Ritardando
An upbeat	Anacrusis
a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow	Andante
x + x/2 time length	Dotted Rythms
(music) gradually decreasing in tempo	Rallentando
Slow Tempo	Adagio
a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner	Allegro
Unaccompanied Voice	A Capella
(of instruments in the violin family) to be played with the bow	Arco
strings being plucked	Pizzicato
Very fast repetition of a note on a percussion instrument.	Rolls
a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower	Viola
Slightly muted sound, Brass	French Horn
Middle Female Voice	Mezzo soprano
Middle Male Voice	Baritone
Woodwind, more closed than a clarinet	Oboe
Low woodwind instrument	Bassoon
a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly	Fortissimo
very soft	Pianissimo
Bright sounding brass instrument	Trumpet
a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide	Trombone
Baroque keyboard instrument with plucked strings	Harpsichord
Tuned Drums	Timpani
Wind instrument, less breathy than flute	Recorder
Breathy woodwind instrument	Flute
Quite Loud	Mezzo-forte
Quite quiet	Mezzo-Piano
Normal guitar	Acoustic Guitar
Many voices singing together, usually SATB	Choir
(music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected	Legato
Large group of instruments playing together	Orchestra
Very large keyboard wind instrument	Organ
(music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply	Staccato
Loud	Forte
Soft	Piano
A musical piece with two parts	Binary (AB)
An end section for a piece of music	Coda
Polyphonic	Contrapuntal
A repeating line throughout a piece	Ground Bass
All playing in the same time	Homophonic
having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together	Polyphonic
Musical form - ABACADA...	Rondo
Two identical parts played in different times	Canon
Where one part repeats another part in a different pitch	Imitation
Musical form - ABA	Ternary
With an accompaniment	Accompanied
An instrument by itself	Solo
Playing without an accompaniment	Unaccompanied
Sung/Played at the same pitch or in octave intervals	Unison/Octave
A solo song in an opera	Aria
A group of voices, usually SATB	Chorus
A music period in 17th century Europe	Baroque
a composition for orchestra and a soloist	Concerto