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a term applied to describe a melodic line that first rises before falling to a cadence

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a term applied in music to describe a rising melodic line, that is one rising in pitch

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Plagal Cadence. A chord progression where the subdominant chord is followed by the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, an…

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Plagal Cadence. A chord progression where the subdominant chord is followed by the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, an…

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a melodic line steadily falling in pitch

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Half Cadence. A chord progression where the dominant chord is the final chord of the cadence and is preceded by the tonic cho…

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the first line, or first few works, of a work, often used to identify it

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Deceptive Cadence. A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by a chord other than the tonic chord In the tona…

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A chord progression where the subdominant chord (in first inversion) is followed by the dominant chord. The root of the final…

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