When you see a da capo mark in a piece of music, it means that you have to go back to the beginning and play from there again.
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When you see a da capo mark in a piece of music, it means that you have to go back to the beginning and play from there again.
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A double-headed cylindrical drum of Japan.
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A single-head drum with a goblet shaped body used mostly in the Middle East and Northern Africa
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Italian for “growing softer.”
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A kind of music scale made of five whole steps and two half steps (steps are the spaces between notes).
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Play softer.
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A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds, or a combination of sounds that creates a feeling of tension needing to be resolved.
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A piece for instruments with several movements, much like a suite. This term was used in the second half of the 18th century.
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A song made up of pieces and arrangements of other well-known songs.
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A rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.
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Italian for “sweet.”
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The biggest instrument with strings. It plays very low notes and a person pulls a bow across its strings to make sound.
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When the conductor moves his baton down to show which notes to accent.
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Percussion instrument on which sound is made by hitting a skin pulled across a hollow space on a round frame with a stick (called a drumstick). There are lots of kinds of drums, and they all sound different depending on their size and shape.
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A composition for two performers.
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An instrument with strings pulled tight over a hollow piece of wood. The strings are hit with a hammer to make sound.
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An hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow the player to change the pitch of the drum by squeezing the cords b
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Two singers or musicians.
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Music that is felt in groups of two beats.
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How loudly or softly to play a piece of music.
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