a musical form made up of two sections sometimes termed A and B
Binary form
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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…
Binary measure
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two beats in a bar or measure
Blue grass
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form of country & western music that developed during the mid 1940's, played by groups that include a double bass, two or mor…
Bolerito
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a triple meter dance but includes only one or two sections or movements as compared with the standard three in a bolero
Bridge
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the device, normally made of wood, that transfers energy from a vibrating string to the belly, table or soundboard; the B sec…
Broken time
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the interposition of short sections (general only a bar or two) in a contrasting time signature; unusual time signatures that…
À deux
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French
for two performers or two instruments