Harpsichord - a keyboard instrument which looks like a small grand piano., Ornament - decorates a melody by adding extra notes., Concerto - A piece of music written for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra., Trill - A type of ornament which involves moving quickly and repeatedly between two notes which are a step apart., Canon - After one part starts to play or sing a melody, another part enters shortly afterwards with exactly the same melody., Ground Bass - A theme in the bass which is repeated many times while the upper parts are varied., Soprano - High female voice, Bass - Lowest male voice, Baritone - Medium male voice, Opera - tells the story entirely through song and is often in a foreign language and accompanied by an orchestra., Aria - A solo song within an opera, Chorus - A group of singers who usually play a crowd, family or a large group in the plot., Syllabic - word setting where a singer sings one syllable per note., Melismatic - when a singer sings more than one note over one syllable., Arco - an instrument technique to describe playing with a bow, Pizzicato - An instrument technique to describe plucking the strings, Timpani - The only percussion instrument used in the Baroque period, Strings - A family of instruments and the most prominent family during in the Baroque orchestra, Mezzo piano - A dynamic in music which tells the performer to perform moderately soft., Oboe - A high pitched woodwind instrument that produces a nasal tone quality.,

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