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Flashcards by Rosa Brookes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rosa Brookes
about 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Trill |
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| Mordent | |
| Turn | |
| Grace note (acciacc atura/ appoggi atura) | |
| Pizzicato | plucking the strings of a violin or other stringed instrument with one's finger. |
| Arco | played on a violin or other stringed instrument using the bow. |
| Legato | in a smooth flowing manner, without breaks between notes. |
| Unison | coincidence in pitch of sounds or notes. |
| Staccato | with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others. |
| Reverb | Short for reverberation. Reverb is an effect used to alter music so that it sounds as if it was recorded in an reverberant, echoey space. |
| Wah wah pedal | Played on an electric guitar and common in disco music. |
| Looping/loop | Looping is a digital effect that involves taking a short segment of music (a loop) and repeating it a number of times in succession. |
| Drum machine | An electronic device that replicates the sounds of various percussion instruments. |
| Amplifier | an electronic device for increasing the amplitude of electrical signals, used chiefly in sound reproduction. |
| BVox | Backing vocalists |
| FX | Effects |
| Microphone | an instrument for converting sound waves into electrical energy variations which may then be made louder, transmitted, or recorded. |
| Mixing desk | a console where sound signals come from and are mixed during recording or broadcasting. |
| Programme note | A written commentary on a piece of music, which can supply background about how the piece was composed and information about its musical features. |
| Bridge | aka middle 8 |
| cadenza | section of concerto |
| MIDI | musical instrument digital interface. one musician can control several electronic instruments easily and cheaply |
| multitracking | using tape containing 2 or more tracks |
| panning | positioning of sound in stereo field. stay fixed or give the impression that sound is moving from side to side. |
| reverb | (short for reverberation) used to alter music so its sounds s if it was recorded in n echoey, reverberant space. most commonly used studio effect. |
| sampler (sampling) | taking a sound and processing it ad playing back to make a sample (song chorus, sound of breaking glass, anything) |
| scat | using nonsense syllables instead of words. used in jazz. |
| sequencer/sequencing (NOT A 'SEQUNCE') | designed for inputting, editing, storing and playing back data from musical performance. |
| synthesiser | generates sounds electronicaly |
| timbre | different sorts of sounds (violin has different sound to piano) |
| quantizing | approximate (continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude is restricted to prescribed set of values |
| overlay | put music over the top of other music |
| vocoder | a synthesiser that produces sounds from an analysis of speech input |
| distortion | change in form of an electronic signal/sound wave during processing |
| mixing | combine two or more signals or soundtracks into one |
| improvised | or without preparation. |
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