12 Terms
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General music
organum
Music; General music
Earliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from the custom of adding voices above a plainchant; they first ran parallel to it at the interval of a fifth or fourth and later moved more freely.
harpsichord
Music; General music
Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano. Also clavecin.
waltz
Music; General music
Ballroom dance type in triple meter; in the Romantic era, a short, stylized piano piece.
