improvisations where one player performs a melodic riff and other members in the band take up the theme, often adding additional phrases, each trying to outplay the others
Chase
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Click track
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technique for reinforcing the live sound of a musical or band with recorded sound from one track of a tape. The other track o…
Continuous imitation
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Renaissance polyphonic style where subjects move between the lines or voices, often overlapping one another
Broken chord
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an arpeggiated chord where the notes are played one after the other
Anacrusis
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Notation
An anacrusis is a pickup that leads into the first complete bar. In notation, the opening and final measures often complement…
Augmentation
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the lengthening of note values when recapitulating a fugal theme adding to it's dignity and weight; to increase a perfect or…
Augmented
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the lengthening of note values when recapitulating a fugal theme adding to it's dignity and weight; to increase a perfect or…
String quartet
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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist
Voice leading
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Theory
Voice leading focuses on how each line moves, not only on the chord labels. Good voice leading often favors: small interval m…