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| 4098952690 | Anacrusis | Pickup note(s) | 0 | |
| 4098952691 | Allegro | A fast tempo | 1 | |
| 4100730786 | Cadence | A stylized close which divides the music into periods or brings it to a full conclusion. | 2 | |
| 4100730960 | 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. Codetta. | 3 | |
| 4100730961 | Coda | The concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure. |  | 4 |
| 4100731343 | Codetta | ("little coda") A brief conclusion, a dominant-tonic cadence at the end of the exposition that may be repeated several times for emphasis. | 5 | |
| 4100731344 | Contour | The pitch contour of a sound is a function or curve that tracks the perceived pitch of the sound over time. | 6 | |
| 4100732558 | Countermelody | A subordinate melody accompanying a principal one | 7 | |
| 4100732559 | Elision | The process where the last note of one phrase serves as the first note of the next. | 8 | |
| 4100733118 | Fragment (fragmented motive) | The use of fragments or the division of a musical idea into segments. | 9 | |
| 4123436064 | Diminution | A Renaissance and Baroque ornamentation which consists of the restatement of a melody in which the note values are shortened, usually by half. | 10 | |
| 4123454705 | Disjunct | A melodic line that moves by leaps and skips rather than in steps. | 11 | |
| 4123456502 | Truncation | Shortening of a musical phrase. | 12 | |
| 4123473987 | Motive | A short tune or musical figure that characterizes and unifies a composition. | 13 | |
| 4123477712 | Turnaround | In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. | 14 | |
| 4123545635 | Conclusive cadences | Authentic and plagal cadences. | 15 | |
| 4123548310 | Deceptive cadence (DC) | A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by a chord other than the tonic chord usually the sixth chord or superdominant chord or submediant chord (V-VI), but sometimes something else. | 16 | |
| 4123555146 | Half cadence (HC) | A very common type of unstable or "progressive" cadence. The HC ends with the V chord, which can be preceded by any other chord. | 17 | |
| 4123555829 | Phrygian half cadence | A special name given to the iv6 - V HC in minor. | 18 | |
| 4123557266 | Inconclusive cadence | A cadence that makes a phrase sound incomplete, as though the music needs to continue further. Generally, either the soprano or the bass ends on a scale degree other than 1. | 19 | |
| 4123557267 | Plagal cadence | A IV-I cadence often also called an amen, or church cadence. | 20 | |
| 4123620848 | Arpeggiating 6/4 | These are chords where the bass is arpeggiating the SAME triad. | 21 | |
| 4123643526 | Cadential 6/4 | This type of 6/4 chord behaves like an appogiatura - it falls on a stronger beat than the chord of resolution, and upper voices resolve downwards by step. It may be approached by a leap but is often approached by step in the bass. The cadential 6/4 chord is always a tonic six-four, and the resolution chord is always V or V7. | 22 | |
| 4123645491 | Neighboring or pedal 6/4 | In this type of 6/4 chord, the bass note sustains like a pedal tone, or conversely you might say that two of the upper voices behave like neighbor tones. With a pedal six-four, the bass stays on the same note for three chords in a row - the six-four chord is the middle chord of the three. The bass note is doubled in all three chords. | 23 | |
| 4123648037 | Passing 6/4 | This type of 6/4 chord is used much like the non-chord tone called a passing tone. The bass note of this six-four chord behaves just like a passing tone - in other words, this bass note, the note before it, and the note after it will make a three note stepwise line, either ascending or descending. | 24 | |
| 4123655410 | Adagio | A slow tempo. | 25 | |
| 4123663452 | Allegro | A fast tempo. | 26 | |
| 4123667232 | Andante | A moderate, walking tempo. | 27 | |
| 4123670006 | Andantino | A moderate tempo, slightly faster than andante. | 28 |
