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accompaniment aria audience Bach band Baroque Baroque music bass basso continuo bassoon Beatles Beethoven blue suede shoes blues Brahms brass cadence cello century chords chorus clarinet classical music composers concertos contrast crescendo culture dance Date of composition dissonant drum Duration Faculty CD flute gamelan genres guitar half step harmony Haydn horns imitation instruments jazz LISTENING GUIDE Liszt lively loud lyrical Major mbira melody meter minor minuet movement Mozart musicians notes oboe opera orchestra pattern performance phrase pianist piano piece pitch plainchant played polyphony popular music Renaissance repeated rhythm rhythmic Ritornello rock rock music Romantic Schoenberg Schumann shakuhachi singers singing slow solo soloists sonata form songs sound Stravinsky string quartet Student cassette Student CD style Symphony Tchaikovsky tempo texture theme timpani tion tonality tonic track trio trombones trumpet Variation viola violin vocal voice Wagner whole step woodwinds Wozzeck written wrote