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pentatonic scale
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Five-note pattern used in some African, Far Eastern and Native American musics; can also be found in Western music as an example of exoticism.
aleatory
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Indeterminate music in which certain elements of performance (such as pitch, rhythm or form) are left to choice or chance.
intermezzo
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Short, lyric piece or movement, often for piano. Also a comic interlude performed between acts of an eighteenth century opera seria.
continuous imitation
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Renaissance polyphonic style in which the motives move from line to line within the texture, often overlapping one another.
percussion instrument
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Instrument made of metal, wood, stretched skin or other material that is made to sound by striking, shaking, scraping or plucking. The many varied percussion instruments fall into two basic ...
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