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Accelerando
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Getting faster
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Accent
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The emphasis on a beat resulting in that beat being louder or longer than another in a measure.
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Adagio
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Quite slow
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Agitato
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Agitated or restless
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Alla breve
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A type of duple meter interpreted as 2/2 and indicated as cut time; also called cut time
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Allegro
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Fast, cheerful
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Andante
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Moderately slow or walking pace.
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Appregio
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Broken chord in which the individual tones are sounded one after another instead of simultaneously.
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A tempo
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Return to the previous tempo
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Baritone horn
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Tenor-range brass instrument resembling the tuba. Also called euphonium.
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Bass clarinet
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Woodwind instrument of the clarinet family with the lowest range
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Bass drum
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The bass drum is a large membranophone that is played with a soft headed stick; it produces a low, heavy sound that is heard prominently in this march.
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Basoon
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The basoon is a double-reed instrument made of wood. Its relative, the contrabasoon, heard hear, is the lowest pitch and weightest sounding wood wind instrument.
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Beat
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Regular pulsation; a basic unit of length in a musical time.
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Cadence
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Resting place in a musical in phrase; music punctuation.
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