front 1 A Capella | back 1 Vocal music performed without an instrumental accompaniment. |
front 2 Absolute Music | back 2 Abstract music, the opposite to programme music. It is not composed to represent or illustrate anything else. |
front 3 Accent | back 3 Extra stress given to a note in a piece of music. |
front 4 Accompaniment | back 4 A musical part (vocal or instrumental) which supports or provides the harmony for the main tune. |
front 5 Aria | back 5 Italian word for "air" or tune. A song for a solo voice with or without accompaniment. |
front 6 Arpeggio | back 6 A type of broken chords. The notes are played one by one in ascending or descending order. |
front 7 Ascending | back 7 Music which moves from lower to higher notes. |
front 8 Barbershop | back 8 A style of a cappella singing that typically uses four-part close harmony. |
front 9 Baroque | back 9 Musical era from 1600 to 1750. |
front 10 Basso Continuo | back 10 An accompaniment made up of a continuous base line over which chords are improvised. |
front 11 Block Chord | back 11 A chord which notes are played simultaniously. |
front 12 Body Percussion | back 12 Sounds made using parts of the body. |
front 13 Broken Chord | back 13 A chord whose notes are played in succession or in sequence. |
front 14 Cadence | back 14 A short chord progression used at the end of a musical phrase to create a resting point in the music. |
front 15 Call and Response | back 15 A compostitional technique in which a first musical phrase sounds as though it is answered by a second phrase performed by a different voice or group. |