Musical Terminology

"Aug" means augmented. To augment a note, raise it a half step.

In simple definition, the form is the structure or plan of the music. In most cases, the composer sketches a skeleton of his music. The redundancy of themes and motifs play a major role in music composition. Common forms in music are binary form, ternary form, rondo form, sonata form and theme and variations.

A corresponding rest to a minim note is the minim rest. It is also known as half note rest. The half note rest denotes silence for two beats.

Write the desired note G in the staff. Add two lines as same height as the note in the left side. Do the same from the right side. You have drawn a G as a breve.

its a stick with a clear circle

The place of a minim in a stave is determined by its pitch.

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A grace note looks identical to an ordinary note, but it is written smaller and has a dash across it.

The term duration in music, means,

the sound can be long or the sound can be short.

Basically the lenght of each note.

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There are two types of mordents: upper and lower. For the upper modent, you play a rapid succession of the base note, upper note, then base note. For the lower, you do the same but it will be the base note, lower note, then base note.

Type your answer here... 3 beats per measure

A list of terminological words in music can be found in the related link given below.

The term "Broadly" indicates a slow tempo with full length notes (little or no space between the notes), and with the emphasis given to the entire phrase rather than individual notes or small groups of notes.

The lyrics of an opera are called the "libretto."

Dotted semibreve = 6 Crotchets

1 Crotchet = 2 Quavers

So a dotted semibreve has the same duration as 12 quavers.

decrescendo

The top number indicates the number of beats per measure, and the bottom number indicates what note value gets one beat.

"Pace"

There are 16 semiquavers in a semibreve. A minim is worth two beats and a semibreve is worth four beats. So, a minim should be worth half of what a semibreve is worth.

The answer is 8.

Historically informed performance arose in the 1970s, and many ensembles focusing on this type of presentation are touring today. Some of the well-known ones include Anonymous 4, Boston Camerata, the Consort of Musicke, English Baroque Soloists, Ex Cathedra, Fretwork, Hesperion XXI, the Hilliard Ensemble, the King's Consort, the Parlay of Instruments, Piffaro, The Sixteen, and the Tavener Consort. The biennial Boston Early Music Festival hosts international ensembles and is known for its presentions of Baroque opera; in addition, many primarily contemporary ensembles will strive to include period instruments and performance practice in some of their early music performances.

Harmony is a simultaneous combination of tones, especially when blended into chords pleasing to the ear. Harmony is structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm