a theme played backwards
Retrograde motion
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Retrograde inversion motion
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a theme played backwards and upside down
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…
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…
Ghost note
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a note is implied in a musical phrase, either not played or otherwise played only faintly for effect
Gottuvadhyam
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instrument played in Southern India with six playing strings which pass over the top of the instrument, three drone strings a…