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Contents
ELEMENTS | 1 |
VOICES AND INSTRUMENTS | 8 |
JMUSIC NOTATION | 35 |
Copyright | |
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1st mvt accompaniment allegro Bach band baroque music Basic sets basso continuo bassoons beat Beethoven brass Brief sets Cassette cellos century Chopin choral chords chorus church clarinet classical composers composition Concerto contrast create crescendo dance dissonant Don Giovanni double basses drum dynamics Example flute French horns fugue Full orchestra G Minor Handel harpsichord Haydn imitated improvisation indefinite pitch instruments jazz legato Listening Outline lyrical main melody major melodic lines minuet mood Mozart Music Guide music is heard musicians notation notes oboes octave opera percussion Percussion instrument performed phrase piano piece pitch pizzicato played polyphonic read while music Renaissance repeated rhythm rhythmic Rite of Spring ritornello rock romantic romantic music scale Schoenberg Schumann second theme sing solo soloists sonata form songs sound staccato Stravinsky style Symphony tempo texture timpani tonality tone color tonic trombones trumpet tune twelve-tone twentieth-century VARIATION violas violins Vocal Music Guide voice woodwinds wrote