Music Theory Chp. 1/Terms a - allegro
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hyperrocketgrl91 on September 8, 2010
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
a | by |
accelerando | getting faster |
achtel | eighth note |
adagietto | slightly faster than adagio |
adagio | slow, leisurely |
ad libitum | at will |
affetto | emotion, passion |
affettuoso | very expressively |
affretti | hurried |
agitato | agitated |
al | to |
all', alla | to the, at the, in the, in the style of |
allant | stirring, bustling |
allargando | growing broader, slowing down with fuller tone |
allegretto | moderately fast; slower than allegro |
allegro | lively, fast |
meter and rhythym | do not measure time; measure the way notes relate to one another in terms of their length |
corolaries | pulses, beats, and measures |
protonotation | method of writing down meter/rhythym |
pulse | regularly recurring feeling of stress in music; occurs at a point in time and does not have a duration/length |
primary pulse | stronger point of stress in music |
secondary pulse | weaker points of stress in music that intercollate with the primary pulse |
meter | present when music exhibits paterns of primary and secondary pulses |
beat | the duration between two successive pulses; has a duration, unlike a pulse |
measure | the duration between successive primary pulses |
duple meter | meter present where each primary pulse is followed by one secondary pulse (each measure contains two beats) |
rhythym | duration in music |
double bar | indicates when the music stops |
ictus | the point in each beat of a conducting pattern at which the pulse occurs |
downbeat | the 1st beat of a measure |
upbeat | the last beat of a measure |
triple meter | meter with 3 beats per measure |
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