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    The document defines various musical terms including: fugue, riff, sequence, auxiliary note, note of anticipation, heliola, appoggiatura, canon, cadential 6/4, fugato, ostinato, round, harmony, passing note, imitation, diatonic, periodic phrasing, and pedal note. It provides short definitions or descriptions of each term in one sentence.

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    The document defines various musical terms including: fugue, riff, sequence, auxiliary note, note of anticipation, heliola, appoggiatura, canon, cadential 6/4, fugato, ostinato, round, harmony, passing note, imitation, diatonic, periodic phrasing, and pedal note. It provides short definitions or descriptions of each term in one sentence.

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    The document defines various musical terms including: fugue, riff, sequence, auxiliary note, note of anticipation, heliola, appoggiatura, canon, cadential 6/4, fugato, ostinato, round, harmony, passing note, imitation, diatonic, periodic phrasing, and pedal note. It provides short definitions or descriptions of each term in one sentence.

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    Musical Terms A Level Music

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    Fugue: a contrapuntal composition where a melody is introduced by one part and then played by others and made into

    interweaving parts.

    Riff: a short repeated phrase, often in pop/jazz music.

    Sequence: the repetition of a motif passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice.

    Auxiliary: a nonharmonic note between harmonic notes

    Note of Anticipation: usually found before a cadence, it is a note that anticipates a note from the next chord.

    Heliola: a rhythmic device where the metre feels like it changes between triple and duple metre: usually found where 2 measures of 3 beats feel like 3 measures of 2 beats.

    Appoggiatura: a grace note which delays the next note, taking half (or more) of its written time value

    Canon: a melody which is played or sung the same but starting at different times.

    Cadential 6/4: use of the second inversion of triads. It is a second inversion tonic triad, followed by a root position dominant chord, which then usually resolves forming a cadence.

    Fugato: in the style of a fugue, but not strictly in fugal form.

    Ostinato: a repeated musical phrase/rhythm.

    Round: the same melody sung beginning at different times by different voices, which fits harmoniously together and can continue to go round over and over again.

    Harmony: the use of simultaneous pitches or chords. How music is made up of chords; their constructions, progressions and how they connect.

    Passing note: a note not belonging to the harmony that connects pitches usually by a stepwise motion and normally on the weak beat of the bar.

    Imitation: repetition of a phrase or melody often in variations in key, rhythm and voice.

    Diatonic: music that involves notes only in the key without chromatic alteration.

    Periodic phrasing:

    Pedal note: a note sustained in one part (often the bass) through successive harmonies.

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