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music terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accent | An emphasis at the beginning of a musical sound. |
| Adagio | Meaning a slow tempo or slow speed |
| Chord | When two or more notes or pitches are sounded to make a cord |
| Crescendo | Meaning growing, as in a gettig of sound, or becoming louder |
| Half-step | equivalent to 1⁄12 of an octave |
| Key | A group of pitches based on a particular tonic |
| Melody | An identifiable succession of musical sounds. |
| Octave | The interval between two musical notes, the upper one of which has twice the pitch of the lower one |
| Piano | Gently, soft |
| Solo | be played alone. |
| Tempo | The rate of speed of a musical work |
| minor | having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees |
| major | having an interval of a semitone between the third and fourth degrees |
| chromatic | relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written |