Try the Quiz : Music Trivia & Quiz Games : Musical Terms III
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| MUSICAL TERM | MEANING |
| cadence | Cadence is a sequence of notes ending a section of music. |
| cadenza | Cadenza is an elaborate passage in a concerto or aria that featues the skills of a solo vocalist or instrumentalist. |
| cantata | Cantata is a composition written for chorus and orchestra, which is often religious in nature. |
| clef | Clef is a symbol at the beginning of the stave (or staff) in sheet music showing the pitch of notes in that particular stave. |
| coda | Coda is the final part of a movement or musical composition. |
| counterpoint | Counterpoint (or Polyphony) is a technique of combining two or three melodic lines and playing them simultaneously. |
| leitmotif | Leitmotif or Leitmotiv is a recurrent theme given to a particular idea or main character in a musical work. |
| natural | Natural is a sign in sheet music to return a (diminished or augmented) note to its original pitch. |
| nocturne | Nocturne is a short piece of music, which often has a romantic character with nocturnal dreamy associations. |
| rococo | Rococo refers to a musical style in 18th-century Europe characterized as excessive, ornate and old-fashioned. |
| rondo | Rondo is a piece of music where the principal theme is repeated many times. |
| scherzo | Scherzo is a sprightly movement or lively piece of music. It often refers to a fast movement in triple time pertaining to the sonata form. |
| septet | Septet is a musical composition for a set of seven musicians (instruments or voices). |
| sextet | Sextet is a musical composition for a set of six musicians (instruments or voices). |
| slur | Slur is denoted by a curved line and refers to two or more notes are to be executed in a smooth connected way without a break. |
| syncopation | Syncopation is the rhythmic result produced by replacing a regularly accented beat by an unaccented beat and vice versa. |
| vibrato | Vibrato is the slight fluctuation in the pitch of a note by rapidly alternating between notes. |
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