9th grade orchestra vocab
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janadsouza on April 12, 2012
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tutti | everybody plays |
| niente | nothing |
| sempre | always |
| tenuto | stretch note |
| allargando | stretch passage |
| morrendo | dying away |
| largo | very slow tempo |
| pesante | heavy, ponderous |
| cadenza | brilliant solo passage |
| glissando | slide between two notes |
| interval | distance between two notes |
| tacet | no one plays |
| major scale | series of consecutive notes that ascends and descends, starts and ends on the same note and follow pattern whole,whole,half,whole,whole,whole,half |
| meno | less |
| moto | motion |
| turn | embellishment that rotates around a primary note |
| grace note | musical ornament that comes before or after the primary note |
| leading tone | seventh scale degree of a major scale |
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