Ambience

Ambiance

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sounds in the background arising from the environment

Ambient noise

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sounds in the background arising from the environment

Behind the beat

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when a performer deliberately sounds the notes slightly after the beat set by the ensemble

Breathing

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a term applied to the performance of music on all instruments indicating all silences between sounds

Chace

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French

fourteenth century French term for 'canon', two and three voice canons that imitated bird calls or the sounds of instruments,…

Clos

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a cadence in which the last note sounds conclusive; that note, termed the 'final', which is the central note of the melody; t…

Comping

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the practice of supplying background music comprised of chords while a soloist is improvising

Kwaito

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an urban South African genre developed in the 1990s, a fusion of various musical sounds that were popular in the 1990s, inclu…