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| Improvisation | Music that is made up on the spot, usually according to stylistic guidelines |
| Strophic | A song in which several verses of words are sung to the same melody |
| Ballad | An English narrative song told in simple verses; a story song |
| Spiritual | A form of African American religious folk music sung by a group |
| Folk Blues | The most important type of solo secular folk music among African Americans |
| Pentatonic | Five-note scale pattern similar to the arrangements of whole and half steps on the black keys of the piano |
| Ornamentation | Melodic decoration and embellishment either improvised or indicated by signs in the music |
| Call-and-Response | Form found in African music in which phrases of music are exchanged between leader and group |
