thirteenth-, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century formes fixes, a strophic piece, each stanza having an initial repeated section followed by a second section played only once, and a final refrain; a dramatic heroic piano piece often inspired by poetry; a setting of a poem to music
Ballade
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Attacca
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Italian
at once, attack, immediately; used at the end of a section, the term means go on immediately to the next section without a pa…
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…
Repeat
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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....
Ritmo di tre battute
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music played so quickly that each measure is played as a single beat and each group of three bars is a single hypermeasure
Rounded binary
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compositional form with two sections, in which the second ends with a return to material from the first, each section is usua…
Ternary form
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a three section form in which the first section A is repeated, often with some changes, after a middle section B, thus the fo…
Trio
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a piece played by three players; a piece of music to be play such a group; a contrasted section between two performances of a…
Walking bass
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a bass line that moves steadily in a rhythm contrasting to that of the upper parts; in jazz, a walking bass usually moves by…