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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