Latin American rattles made from gourds or other materials
What are maracas?
A stately Polish processional dance in triple meter.
What is a Polonaise?
A single chord comprised of several chords. Common in 20thC music
What is a polychord?
A device used to indicate the tempo by sounding regular beats at adjustable speeds.
What is a metronome?
Soft
What is Piano (p)?
To sound the strings of an instrument using fingers or a plectrum or pick
What is to pluck?
A stately Renaissance court dance in duple meter.
What is a Pavane?
Two or more streams of harmony played against each other, common in 20th C music
What is polyharmony?
The organization of rhythm in time; the grouping of beats into larger, regular patterns, notated as measures.
What is meter?
Very fast
A medieval three-holed end-blown flute
What is a pipe?
A French Baroque court dance type, a faster version of the minuet.
What is a Passepied?
The simultaneous use of several meters (or rhythmic patterns), common in 20th C music and certain African musics
What is polymeter?
or
What is polyrhythm?
An early 20thC movement in the arts and literature that explored innovative, nontraditional forms of expression
What is modernism?
Majestic
What is maestoso?
What is a metallophone?
A dance of Afro-Cuban origin with a highly syncopated quadruple-meter rhythmic pattern.
What is mambo?
Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture, as distinct from monophonic.
What is polyphonic?
A succession of single pitches perceived by the ear as a unity
What is a melody?
Moderately loud
What is mezzo forte (mf)?
A percussion instrument, a mellower version of the xylophone, of African origin.
What is a marimba?
English genre of aristocratic entertainment that combined vocal and instrumental music with poetry and dance, developed during the 16th and 17th Centuries
What is a masque?
The simultaneous use of two or more keys, common in 20thC music
What is polytonality?
The original name for the piano
What is pianoforte?
Very soft
What is piannisimo (pp)?