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Hint
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Answer
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A
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To stress a particular note or notes
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accent
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B
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A composition suggesting a "boat song" of Venietian gondoliers
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barcarolle
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C
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Avant-garde American composer who wrote works for "prepared piano"
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Cage
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D
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The low pipes of a bagpipe
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drone
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E
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Term for how the mouth is used to produce sound on a wind or brass instrument
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embouchure
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F
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A composition which employs imitative counterpoint, mastered by Bach
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fugue
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G
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Romantic Spanish composer Granados' most well-known work, a piano suite
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Goyescas
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H
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Considered by many to have been the 20th century's most outstanding concert pianist, this Russian artist made his American debut in 1928.
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Vladimir Horowitz
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I
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Letters addressed to this unknown woman were found after Beethoven's death.
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Immortal Beloved
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K
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Another name for timpani
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kettle drum
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L
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Italian term indicating to play very slowly
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largo
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M
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A device which clicks regular beats at chosen tempos
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metronome
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N
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A romantic style composition, usually written for piano, with an expressive melody over a broken chord accompaniment
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nocturne
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O
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Term for a melodic phrase which is repeated "obstinately" throughout a composition, often, but not always, in the bass
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ostinato
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P
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Another term for contrapuntal music, meaning 'many voices'
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polyphony
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Q
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General term that can be applied to an opening phrase which ends on a note other than tonic
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question
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R
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To play with some freedom from a strict steady pulse
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rubato
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S
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A "small" sonata
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sonatina
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T
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Rapid alternation of a given note with its diatonic upper neighbor
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trill
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U
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The left foot pedal on a piano, usually called the soft pedal
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una corda
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V
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Full name of Texas pianist who won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1957, during the cold war
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Van Cliburn
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W
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A dance in moderate triple meter
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waltz
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Z
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F.irst name of Czech composer Fibich
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Zdenko
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