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| alternating hands | one hand used after the other, never at the same time |
| bordun | a repeated pattern |
| broken bordun | two notes played with alternating hands in a repeated pattern |
| chord bordun | two notes played at the same time in a repeated pattern |
| time signature | the number of beats in a measure |
| key signature | the number of sharps and flats in a piece of music |
| melody | notes played one after the other, moves up, down or stays the same |
| harmony | two or more notes played at the same time |
| pitch | the highness or lowness of a sound |
| tonic | the key tone or first note of a scale |
| pentatonic | five-tone |
| rhythm | the way the beat moves |
| tone color | the kind of instruments used in a piece of music |
| form | the way music is put together |
| duration | the length of a sound |
| texture | layers of sound from thin to thick |
| dynamics | loudness and softness of music |
| syncopation | beats where you do not normally expect them |
| folk songs | music passed down through generations |
| music | the art or science of producing and arranging combinations of sound |
