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| brief musical ideas merge to create a blurred outline |
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| Dialogue between two voices or instruments. Think iPod headphones. |
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| When a musical shape is mirrored. For example, played on an ascending scale, then on a descending scale. |
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| Usually a passage from the bible set to music. |
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| trumpets, sound important. |
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| bowed string instruments being bowed more than one string at a time. |
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| for smaller orchestras. Dissonant tonal and atonal harmonies. |
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| Religious, sounds ‘massive’. Words can be heard such as Gloria Kyrio, etc. |
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| Continuous bassline. Harpsichords, etc. |
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| One line of music plays quavers whilst the other plays triplets. Think ‘nice cup of tea’ |
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| When the second voice in a fugue has different intervals from the subject |
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| When the second voice in a fugue has the same intervals as the subject |
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| crushed note before the main note. Like a grace note. |
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| English secular text. Sounds ‘mad’. |
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| Ornament. Sounds the main note, note above and the note below. |
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| Increases the length of notes. music will sound slower when imitated or repeated. |
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| notes of a chord played out one after the other |
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| two chords at the end of a phrase |
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| a passage at the end of a piece which rounds it off perfectly |
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| Set of dances that is part of a larger scale work |
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