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Antecedent

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the subject of a fugue or canon; the first phrase of a musical period; the first of a pair of musical statements, termed ante…

Interpolation

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the lengthening of the repetition of a phrase by the insertion of material not heard in the original phrase

Antiphonal

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a musical form where one section of performers answers another

Antithesis

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in a fugue, the answer

Appoggiatura

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Italian

a note preparatory to another or to a chord acting as an unprepared suspension See appoggiatura in Note Symbols

An

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German

on, by, to, at phrase

Anacruses

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up beats or pickup notes, unstressed syllables at the beginning of a phrase

Anacrustic

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a phrase that starts and ends in the middle of a bar