the adjustment of volume and timbre between instruments or voices so that, when required, each is clearly heard through the general texture
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Imitation
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Imitation is common in polyphonic writing and helps create coherence between voices. In classical guitar arrangements, imitat…
Part crossing
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when two voices cross over each other
Terraced dynamics
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expressive style typical of some early music in which volume levels shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual…
Bas instruments
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soft instruments suitable for chamber music
Borrowed division
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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…
Arrange
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to set a work originally written for one instrument (or set of instruments) for another instrument or set of instruments
Antecedent
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the subject of a fugue or canon; the first phrase of a musical period; the first of a pair of musical statements, termed ante…
Combination note
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third note heard when two notes are played simultaneously, resultant tone