a theme played backwards and upside down
Retrograde inversion motion
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Retrograde motion
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a theme played backwards
Arpeggio
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Italian
played in a "harp like manner". A spread chord played from the bottom up or from the top down (with a downward pointing arrow…
Chord Inversion
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Theory
Inversions rearrange chord tones while keeping chord identity. For triads: root position: root in bass first inversion: third…
Reverse motion
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imitation in contrary motion, that is, the ascending intervals are changed to descending intervals and the descending interva…
Ripieno
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Italian
a term used to distinguish passages played by soloists and those played by the whole orchestra
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
Abanico
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Spanish
a stylized roll played by the timbalero usually to signify a change in the music; a word used to describe the timbales figure…
Arpège
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French
(Italian) a spread chord played from the top down or from the bottom up