music class vocabulary
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| motive (motif) | short melodic and/or rhythmic figure that RECURS throughout a composition or a section of a unifying element.
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| sequence | the immediate restatement of a melodic motive or longer figure in the same instrumental or vocal part at a higher or lower pitch.
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| sequence segment | each separate unit of a sequence.
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| retrograde | backwards.
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| sequence rule 1 | Sequence requires at least two segments.
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| sequence rule 2 | Most sequences have no more than four segments.
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| sequence rule 3 | Sequences usually have only one direction.
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| sequence rule 4 | Sequence segments usually continue by the same interval distance.
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| EXAMPLE for sequence rule 4 | If first segment starts on C, second segment starts on E, then remainder of segments will continue in thirds.
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| real sequence | contains continuing segments that are an exact transposition of the first segment. (It usually has accidentals; it has the exact same numeric pattern as the first segment).
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| tonal sequence | accommodates diatonic scale, so only diatonic notes of the scale are used. Transposition of the segments may not be exact.
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| augmentation (of a sequence) | longer note lengths (length=value)
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| diminution (of a sequence) | shorter note lengths
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| inversion | if the original (or first segment) is ascending, then the inverted descends (and vice-versa).
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