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| 6673365765 | Cadence | a sequence of notes or chords comprising the close of a musical phrase | 0 | |
| 6673380442 | Cadential extension | the prolongation (post-cadential extension) or delay (pre-cadential extension) of a cadence by the addition of material beyond (i.e. before or after) the point at which the cadence is expected. | 1 | |
| 6673392855 | Coda | the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure. | 2 | |
| 6673421785 | Codetta | A codetta ("little coda") is a brief conclusion, a dominant-tonic cadence at the end of the exposition that may be repeated several times for emphasis. | 3 | |
| 6673440854 | Contour | Contour typically applies to melody, meaning what is the general shape of the melody--does it ascend, descend, etc. | 4 | |
| 6673462155 | Countermelody | a subordinate melody accompanying a principal one. | 5 | |
| 6673472859 | (Phrase) Elision | when the last note of one phrase serves as the first note of another phrase. | 6 | |
| 6673493743 | Fragmented Motive | breaking up motive into smaller fragments, any of which can be used for further development | 7 | |
| 6673512579 | Augmentation | a compositional device where a melody, theme or motif is presented in longer note-values than were previously used. | 8 | |
| 6673515826 | Conjunct | a step, or conjunct motion, is the difference in pitch between two consecutive notes of a musical scale. In other words, it is the interval between two consecutive scale degrees. A conjunct motion consists of mainly stepwise motion | 9 | |
| 6673529056 | Diminution | the restatement of a melody in which the note values are shortened, usually by half. | 10 | |
| 6673543194 | Disjunct | Progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second. Opposite of conjunct movement. | 11 | |
| 6673563073 | Phrase Extension | when a motive from the final phrase member is repeated before the phrase reaches its conclusive cadence., or when a phrase's cadence is repeated | 12 | |
| 6673579863 | Fragmentation | the use of fragments or the "division of a musical idea (gesture, motive, theme, etc.) into segments. | 13 | |
| 6673587496 | Internal Expansion | motivic repetition within the basic idea: a motive or other small melodic figure is repeated, either exactly or with simple embellishment, causing the overall length of the sub-phrase to be larger than the expected. | 14 | |
| 6673612307 | Melodic Inversion | Where the original melody goes up by an interval, the inverted melody goes down by the same interval- upward motion becomes downward motion and visa versa. | 15 | |
| 6673621670 | Literal Repetition | sequences are repeated, indicated by repeat sign, capo or segno. | 16 | |
| 6673638601 | Motivic Transformation | changing the theme by using permutation (transposition or modulation, inversion, and retrograde), augmentation, diminution, and fragmentation. | 17 | |
| 6673679327 | Octave Displacement | placing notes in different octaves. | 18 | |
| 6673683464 | Retrograde | literally means "backwards and upside down": "The inverse of the series is sounded in reverse order." Retrograde reverses the order of the motive's pitches: what was the first pitch becomes the last, and vice versa. | 19 | |
| 6673727582 | Sequence | the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice. It is one of the most common and simple methods of elaborating a melody | 20 | |
| 6673744676 | Sequential Repetition | the repetition of one motif or idea in which each successive repetition of the pattern is a transposition of the original | 21 | |
| 6673758074 | Transposition | the process, or operation, of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval (ex. changing key) | 22 | |
| 6673770617 | Truncation | Shortening of a musical phrase. | 23 | |
| 6727388930 | Strophic Form | Strophic form (also called "verse-repeating" or chorus form) is the term applied to songs in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music. | 24 | |
| 6727394621 | Through-composed | The opposite of strophic form, with new music written for every stanza. | 25 | |
| 6727403065 | Tutti | a term for the whole orchestra as opposed to the soloist. It is applied similarly to choral music, where the whole section or choir is called to sing. | 26 | |
| 6727427103 | Authentic Cadence | A progression from V to I. In a perfect authentic cadence, all chords are in root position and the soprano voice ends on scale degree 1. In an imperfect authentic cadence, the chords may be inverted and the soprano voice can end on pitches other than do. | 27 | |
| 6727449807 | Deceptive Cadence | A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by a chord other than the tonic chord (most commonly: V to vi) | 28 | |
| 6727462036 | Half Cadence | ends the phrase on a dominant chord (V) | 29 | |
| 6727471659 | Phrygian Half Cadence | In minor, when the first inversion of the 4/subdominant chord is followed by the dominant chord (iv6-V) | 30 | |
| 6727487190 | Plagal Cadence | IV to I | 31 | |
| 6745794472 | Anacrusis | one or more unstressed syllables before the first bar line of a piece or passage | 32 |
