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  1. minuet
    a stately court dance from the 17th century
  2. piccolo
    a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
  3. arpeggio
    a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession
  4. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  5. staccato
    (music) separating the notes
  6. etude
    a short, technical composition for a solo instrument
  7. crescendo
    a gradual increase in loudness
  8. highfalutin
    pretentious or excessively fancy
  9. bassoon
    a double-reed woodwind instrument that makes a low sound
  10. soprano
    the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty
  11. hemidemisemiquaver
    a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
  12. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
  13. andante
    at a moderately slow tempo
  14. clarion
    loud and clear
  15. discotheque
    a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
  16. legato
    connecting the notes
  17. bagatelle
    something of little value or significance
  18. vivace
    lively, in music
  19. rockabilly
    a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
  20. allegretto
    in a moderately quick tempo
  21. dolce
    gently and sweetly
  22. fortissimo
    to be played very loudly
  23. nocturne
    a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
  24. tambourine
    a shallow drum with metallic disks in the sides
  25. zydeco
    music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues
Created on Fri Nov 29 15:43:55 EST 2013 (updated Thu Mar 13 07:48:54 EDT 2014)

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