MUSIC CLASSES CANBERRA

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.