form of country & western music that developed during the mid 1940’s, played by groups that include a double bass, two or more guitars, mandolins, fiddles, steel or Hawaiian guitars, dobros and five-string banjo
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Binary form
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a musical form made up of two sections sometimes termed A and B
Bass fiddle
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double bass
Basso ostinato
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ground bass, a pattern repeated several times over in the bass line to accompany one or more ever varying upper parts
Chaconne
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a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, play…
Chacony
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(Old Eng.) a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple…
Chord
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a group of notes, normally two or more, played simultaneously
Chord Inversion
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Theory
Inversions rearrange chord tones while keeping chord identity. For triads: root position: root in bass first inversion: third…
Ciacona
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Italian
slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, played…