MUSIC CLASSES CANBERRA

Alla breve.

From the sign.

Decreasing in loudness; gradually getting softer.

One of the eight consecutive tones in a major or minor diatonic scale, counted upward from the keynote.

Delicately; in a delicate, refined style.

The working out, evolution or elaboration of a theme by presenting it in varied melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic treatment.

Of the scale; by, through, with, within, or embracing the tones of the standard major or minor scale.

Growing softer, dying away.

Diminishing in loudness.

Distinctly.

Sweet, soft.

Very sweetly, softly.

In a style expressive of pain or grief.

The fifth tone in the major or minor scale.

The church mode that corresponds to the scale from D to D played on the white keys of the piano; the order of intervals is: tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone, tone.

The two vertical lines drawn through the staff to indicate the end of a section, movement or piece.

A group of two equal notes to be executed in the time of three of the same kind of notes in the established rhythm.

The varying and contrasting degrees of intensity of loudness in musical tones; volume.