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ADULT MUSIC EDUCATION
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Specialising in
ADULT MUSIC EDUCATION
Small group classes at
Ainslie Arts Centre
ADULT MUSIC EDUCATION
Small group classes
Ainslie Arts Centre & Online
GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS:
S - T
Without.
Any set of musical notes ordered in pitch by defined intervals.
A joke, jest.
Fast, quick, rapid.
Sparkling, brilliant.
Fluent, flowing, gliding.
The interval between two conjunct degrees.
A short division of a composition.
A sign. Al segno, to the sign; dal segno, from the sign.
Follows.
Following.
Very.
A whole note.
A sixteenth note.
A half tone.
In a simple, natural, unaffected style.
Always, continually; throughout.
Audible; sensitive, as in able to be sensed.
Without.
The ordering of pitch classes or other elements.
A chord composed of a root, third, fifth and seventh.
Strictly, with rigid observance of tempo and expression marks.
A direction to perform the tone of chord with special stress, or marked and sudden emphasis; usually written sfz.
Very lightly, like a vanishing smoke-wreath.
Silence.
In the same direction; parts progress in similar motion when both moves up or down simutaneously or, in piano music, when hands move either right or left together.
Similarly; a direction to perform the following bars or passages in the same way.
Not compound or complex; undeveloped, not varied.
First inversion of a triad.
The interval containing six diatonic degrees.
Gradually decreasing in tempo
A curved line under or over two or more notes, signifying that they are to be played legato.
Dying away.
Dreaming, dreamily.
Solemn, solemnly, with solemnity, in a lofty style.
Dark, veiled, obscure.
An instrumental composition in three or four extended movements contrasted in theme, tempo and mood.
Sonorously, resoundingly, resonantly.
With a veiled, muffled tone.
Sustained, prolonged.
Below, under.
Held or sustained.
Steady, firm.
Detached, separated.
A set of parallel lines and spaces, most commonly 5 lines and 4 spaces, used in notation.
Delaying, dragging.
The same.
Dyinf away.
Extravagant, fantastic.
In a noisy, boisterous, impetuous style.
Strident; rough, harsh.
Hastening, accelerating, usually suddenly and rapidlyn with a crescendo.
An étude, a teaching piece.
Suddenly.
The third scale tone below the tonic; the sixth degree.
The scale tone below the tonic.
The second degree of a diatonic scale.
In a whispering, murmurous tone.
Silent.
Rate of speed.
A word or phrase indicating the rate of speed at a which a piece should be performed.
Tenderly; delicatlely, softly.
Held; means generally that a tone so marked is to be sustained for its full time value.
The musical basis or bases upon which composition is built.
The interval containing three successive degrees.
The major ending of a piece in a minor key.
Tone colour or quality.
A steady periodic sound; a note.
The keynote of a scale.
Swift, bold; soon.
Tranquilly, quietly, calmly.
Notation or performance of a composition in a different key from the one in which it was originally written.
A three note chord composed of a given tone, the root, with its third and fifth.
A group of three equal notes to be executed in the time of two of the same kind of notes in the established rhythm.
Meter containing three units, as in 3/4 or 3/8.