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or the refrain of a song  \n• conductor: the person who directs a group of musicians  \n• contralto: a female singer with a low tessitura  \n• couplet: a unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought  \n• crescendo: gradually becoming louder  \n• decrescendo: gradually becoming softer  \n• dialogue: spoken portions of a musical piece  \n• diminuendo: gradually becoming softer  \n• director: the person who directs (stages) an opera or theatre piece  \n• duet: a piece for two performers  \n• duo: two performers  \n• dynamics: varying degrees of loud and soft  \n• eighth note/rest ( /  ): half the length of a quarter note/rest and an eighth the length of a whole note/rest  \n• encore: to repeat a piece or play an additional piece at the end of a performance  \n• ensemble: a group of musicians; the performance of either all instruments of an orchestra or voices in a chorus  \n• fermata: a hold or pause; to hold a tone or rest beyond the written value at the discretion of the performer  \n• finale: the last selection of an opera  \n• fine: the end  \n• form: the design or structure of a musical composition (e.g. ABA, AABA, ABACA)  \n• forte: loud  \n• fortissimo: very loud  \n• haiku: a poem written in the form of 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables  \n• half note/rest (  /  ): twice the length of a quarter note/rest and half of the length of a whole note/rest  \n• harmony: the sounding of two or more tones simultaneously  \n• improvisation: creation of a musical composition while it is being performed, or embellishment of a written piece  \n• instrumentation: the art of writing music for instruments (orchestration); or the actual scoring of a particular composition  \n• key: system of notes or tones based on and named after the key note ; or the levers on a musical instrument which when depressed produce a particular pitch, such as piano keys  \n• key si","cbCaih3QF5FgPE4L","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih3QF5FgPE4L","pdf",115511,"English","# Categories\n## Composition\n## Writing\n## Organizing words and music\n## Organizing time\n## Notation\n## Sounds\n## Dynamics\n## Singing\n## Vocal ranges\n## Voicings\n# Definitions","[{\"question\":\"What does the glossary cover in music composition and performance?\",\"answer\":\"It covers composition elements, writing and narrative terms, musical organization, tempo and rhythm, notation symbols, sound qualities, dynamics, and singing/voice terminology, along with ensemble and performance-related vocabulary.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the meaning of accelerando, allegro, and andante in the glossary?\",\"answer\":\"Accelerando means gradually becoming faster; 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