Dictionary: R

abbreviation for rhythm and blues

ancient instrument found in Afghanistan and India. a hollowed out body of wood with a membrane stretched over the opening. Combinations of gut and…

Afghan lute with 13 sympathetic strings. The three main gut strings are stretched across a goat skin

anger, rage, Fury

becoming gentler, calming down

becoming gentler, calming down

doubling

to double

checking the speed, slowing

ill tempered

a musical syle of 1890s America, a forerunner of jazz

a mid size Portuguese guitar from the island of Madeira

performing broken chords on the lute

belly dance or Oriental dance

to slow down

abbreviation of rallentando

slow

slowing

to slow

slowed

prompter

Mexican cowboy music usually accompanied by a mariachi band

from the lowest note to the highest note whether in a piece of music, or an instrument

old English dance of the seventeenth century in duple meter and binary form

rhythmic chanting consisting of improvised rhymes performed to rhythmic accompaniment

rapidly

rapidity

rapid

bring closer together

music style from Trinidad and Tobago

rhapsody

quick

quicker

a style of guitar playing in which the strings are strummed

a style of guitar playing in which the strings are strummed

Mexican dance from Veracruz

holding back

to hold back

held back

coarse, rough

murmuring, rustling

quickening

quickened

the return of the opening thematic material

composition to be performed at the end of a church service as the clergy leaves the church

right

right

a musical performance usually involving a small number of performers

a dance of the French Renaissance

meditative

speaking

doubling

doubling

a fast, triple time dance from Bohemia

simplified arrangement of a composition

to arrange

an extra voice in the initial entries or the exposition in a fugue

to arrange

lively Scottish, Irish or Scandinavian dance in 4/4

a chorus or a part of a song that recurs often at the end of each of a number of verses

to strike again

a slow tempo rhythmic style that originated in Jamaica

production

range of an instrument with a characteristic sound

to register

registration

register

pure

a spirited movement found in suites of the baroque period

loosened

musical keys that because of their similarity are easy to move between

keys that share a common key signature, for example, C major and A minor

Relative keys use identical accidentals but center on different tonic notes. Example: C major and A minor share no sharps or flats G major and E mi…

an ability to identify one pitch with reference to another given pitch

religious

religious

with a devotional feeling

religious

to put back

the relationship between keys that have relatively few notes in common, for example, the key of C and the key of F sharp

an era of music between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

a performance

increase

increase

re entry

the repeat sign

sign a sign indicating that a section of a piece of music is to be played a second time. see Repeats,D.S.,D.C....

reiteration of a tone at the same pitch level

see Repeated Notes, Sequences, & Passages

see Repeated Notes, Sequences, & Passages

the frequent repetition of the same sound

compositions prepared for performance

repeat

rehearsal

rehearsal

musical instrument that is a reproduction

repeat

doubled

repetition

repose

to take up again

take up again

repeat, recapitulation, revival; a shortened version of a major composition in a stage production used to reward the audience with a repeat of a po…

musical composition honoring the dead

small guitar used in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico

small 4 string Mexican guitar from the Jarocho region

resolutely

harmonic progression from discord to concord

resolute

firmness, steady rhythm

those parts of instruments which resonate or vibrate, thus enhancing the sound of the instrument, particularly the body of a guitar (an example of…

to make a melody stand out

a musical symbol indicating a period of silence see rest in Note Values See Elements of Standard Notation for Classical Guitar

Rest stroke emphasizes projection and tone weight. It is commonly used for: melodic lines that need stronger presence accented notes scale practice…

remain on a note or string

to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)

suspension in a harmony that resolves upwards rather than downwards; a slowing down of the tempo

to hold back immediately

to hold back immediately

a theme played backwards and upside down

a theme played backwards

re attain

coupled

the military signal announcing the start of the day, wake up call

to return

imitation in contrary motion, that is, the ascending intervals are changed to descending intervals and the descending intervals changed to ascending

dreamy

revised

a three string long necked lute of the Turks in China. The resonator is usually round, covered with python skin or other elements and sometimes the…

recitative

similar to fantasia applied to pieces from the nineteenth century inspired by extroverted romantic notions

the disposition of strong and weak beats in a piece of music

American pop music style popular between the 1940's and 1960's

the performers using percussion instruments; when applied to a jazz band, the rhythm section includes piano, double bass (or electric bass), guitar…

rhythmic

rhythmic

rhythmic

rhythm

a trill in dotted rhythm

the sides of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, violin, …..

an elaborate contrapuntal piece of music

an elaborate contrapuntal piece of music

spiccato

precise, right

a canon in which the composer has left it to the performer to choose at which point and at which pitch the following voice(s) should start

the final chorus of a piece

a reduction, an arrangement, an 18th century entertainment in which audience and musicians would take part

reduction, arrangement

a short music phrase, often repeated, particularly in jazz or blues

a dance in simple duple or quadruple time

a dance in simple duple or quadruple time

See Right hand fingerings in Left & Right Hand Fingerings

strict time

strict time

to slow, slowing, slowed

to slow, slowing, slowed

to slow, slowing, slowed

to slow, slowing, slowed

returning to the original tempo

returning to the original tempo

accenting, accented

repose

repose

repose

religious dance performed by African American slaves

the music of Southern Asia

a loud tonal slide up to a note often ending with a sharp accent

repetition

a term used to distinguish passages played by soloists and those played by the whole orchestra

reposeful

repose

resume original tempo

repeat

livelier

resolutely

bold, resolute

resolution

a type of Italian folk song

quickening

animated

Ritardando; to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)

Ritardando; to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)

to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)

to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)

to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)

the gradual diminishing of speed

Ritenuto; suddenly slower

suddenly slower

rhythmic

rhythm

music played so quickly that each measure is played as a single beat and each group of three bars is a single hypermeasure

an instrumental piece

an instrumental piece

an instrumental piece

return

an instrumental piece

knightly

robust, strongly voiced

a popular music style developed in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1960s

American popular music of the 1950's

a popular music style developed in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1960s

raucous

a florid musical style generally applied to the music of the sons of Bach, early Haydn and Mozart

coarse, rough

a short instrumental piece with the lyrical character of a vocal romance

song without words

a collection of romantic songs

an era of music following the Classical era and ending around 1900

nineteenth century music that is lyrical, harmonically chromatic, emotionally charged and nationalistic

romance

humming

a whole note see Note Values

a flamenco fandango from Ronda

an instrumental form in which the first or main section is repeated between subsidiary sections and to conclude the piece; usually in lively tempo

an Andean string, has five double strings

the fundamental note in a chord

the ornamental rosette set into a hole cut into the soundboard, as in the lute

a method of teaching by imitation

a full tone

rolling

rolling

a short perpetual vocal canon in which all the voices sing at the same pitch or at an octave to it

compositional form with two sections, in which the second ends with a return to material from the first, each section is usually repeated

a passage that can be performed in a reverse order; a sequence of notes starting high and falling

mellow sounding Chinese instrument played with a plectrum and similar to the mandolin

Afghan plucked lute. has a short neck with double chambers and three main playing strings made of animal gut or string. also has several drone and…

a limited freedom of rhythm and tempo when performing a piece of music; the time extension applied to one note is taken from an adjoining note or n…

Rubato should shape phrasing without losing overall pulse. In classical guitar, subtle rubato can support melodic expression and cadence shaping. G…

consideration

roughly

Swedish and Norwegian country dance

a Spanish round dance in quintuple time

peace

the fermata sign

the fermata sign

peaceful

Swedish and Norwegian country dance

Cuban rhythms played at informal celebrations

a style of Cuban rumba differing from other rumbas by having a 6/8 beat

a rumba style from southern Spain

rapid ascending or descending of notes

Swedish round dance

Russian

Russian

in a rustic manner

rhythm

rhythmic