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- Round
- A piece of music in which two or more performers or groups start one after the other.
- Unison
- Everyone performs the same thing at the same time.
- Entry Points
- Points in a round where the next performer may begin.
- Ostinato
- A repeated pattern in music.
- Timbre
- A unique quality or colour made by a voice or instrument.
- Pitch
- The highness or lowness of a sound.
- Beat
- The regular 'heartbeat' or pulse in music.
- Presto
- A very fast tempo.
- Moderato
- At a moderate pace or tempo.
- Andante
- At an easy walking pace or tempo.
- Tempo
- The speed of the beats in a piece of music.
- Metre
- The patterning of loud and soft beats in music.
- Rhythm
- The pattern of longer and shorter sounds made by the words of a song.
- Crotchet
- A note used for a sound that lasts for one beat. Also known as taa.
- Quaver
- A note used for two sounds over a beat. Also known as ti-ti.
- Bar line
- Marks off patterns of loud and soft beats.
- Bar
- Distance between two bar lines.
- Time Signature
- Used at the beginning of a piece of music to show the metre.
- Phrase
- A segment of a song which can be sung in one breath.
- Interval
- The distance between two pitches.
- Step
- Two pitches side by side.
- Skip
- Two pitches which have another in between.
- Rest
- Silence in music.
- zaa
- A silence which lasts for one beat.
- Forte
- Loud
- Crescendo
- Getting Louder
- Piano
- Soft
- Diminuendo
- Getting softer
- Minum
- A sound which lasts for two beats. Also known as Taa ah
- Dotted Minum
- A sound which lasts for three beats.Also known as Taa ah ah.
- Pentatonic Scale
- A special pitch ladder made up of five notes: doh, re, mi, soh and la.
- Anacrusis
- A note or group of notes which come immediately before the first strong beat of a phrase.
- Rondo Form
- The form represented by letters ABACA (etc.)