compositions that have no connection with religion
Secular music
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Sextuplet
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a group of six notes of equal value that have the equivalent time value normally of five or seven
Symphony orchestra
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an ensemble of instruments which may have in excess of 100 members
Closed ending
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second of two endings in a secular medieval work, usually cadencing on the final
Collage
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a technique where musical fragments from other compositions are overlapped within a new work
Deploration
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French
compositions of the Medieval and Renaissance eras commonly written in the phrygian mode
Form
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the structure a pieces of music may have, for example, sonata form, rondo, …….
Homorhythmic
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polyphonic lines played together have the same rhythm but independent melodies
Kitsch
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a work that is shallow, pretentious, gaudy, without substance, or calculated to have popular appeal