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GLOSSARY
4/4 TIME FUSION
A time signature consisting of four quarter- A blend of two or more types of music.
note beats per bar, giving the music a steady
rhythm. It’s known as “common time” as it’s GENRE
the most common time signature. A type of music with a distinct sound
that makes it clearly identifiable—and
AMPLIFY different from other types of music.
To increase the volume of a sound.
GLISSANDO
BAR A rapid slide through a series of notes on
A segment of music corresponding to a an instrument, producing a gliding effect.
repeated pattern of beats. In written
music, a bar is marked using vertical lines. HARMONY
Notes of different pitches that are played
BEAT or sung at the same time to create a
The pulse of the music. A piece of music conventionally pleasing sound.
can be divided into individual beats of the
same length, which are grouped into bars. INCIDENTAL MUSIC
Music, often without a distinct tune, that
DISSONANCE plays during a film or TV scene to convey
A combination of notes that sounds a mood or accompany the action.
strange and conventionally unharmonious.
KEY
DRONE A group of notes used to write a piece
A note or chord that is sustained of music, which form a scale.
continuously throughout a piece of music.
KEY SIGNATURE
DYNAMICS Symbols at the start of a piece of written
How loudly or quietly a note or a group of music telling the musician what key the
notes is played. piece is in.
FRET MELODY
A ridge (usually made of metal) on the A distinctive, often recurring, linear
fingerboard of a stringed instrument pattern of notes—also known as
marking the position of a note. the tune.
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