| Style |
Melody/Harmony |
Rhythm/Tempo |
Texture/Structure/Form |
Timbre |
| Ayre/Air |
Appoggiatura |
Hemiola |
Answer |
Consort |
| Anthem |
Augmented triad |
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Antiphonal |
Countertenor |
| Ballett |
Chords I, IV, V, VI in major and minor keys |
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Bridge |
Piano trio |
| Chorale |
Chord II and 1st inversion (major key only) |
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Countersubject |
Sprechgesang |
| Contemporary jazz |
Polytonality / Bitonality |
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Fugue |
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| Electronic dance music |
Suspension |
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Inversion |
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| Galliard |
Tone row / Note row |
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Leitmotiv |
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| Madrigal |
Tritone |
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Retrograde |
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| Motet |
Turn |
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Song cycle |
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| Nationalist |
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Stretto |
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| Neo-classical |
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Subject |
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| Pavan |
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| Renaissance |
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| Serial |
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