Question
INTRODUCTION
Answer

Section which opens a piece & establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic elements.

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Other flashcards from AP Music Theory Vocabulary :
CADENCE       CODA       CADENTIAL EXTENSION       CODETTA       COUNTERMELODY       ELISION       FRAGMENT       INTRODUCTION       CONTOUR       BRIDGE       CHORUS       TWELVE BAR BLUES       SONG FORM       TURNAROUND       DIMINUTION       AUGMENTATION       FRAGMENTATION       EXTENDED VERSION/ PHRASE EXTENSION       LITERAL REPETITION       INTERNAL EXPANSION       OCTAVE DISPLACEMENT       RETROGRADE       MELODIC INVERSION       SEQUENCE       SEQUENTIAL REPETITION       SHORTENED VERSION       TRANSPOSITION       TRUNCATION       MOTIVE       PERIOD       ANTECEDENT PHRASE       CONSEQUENT PHRASE       CONTRASTING PERIOD       DOUBLE PERIOD       PARALLEL PERIOD       PHRASE GROUP       REFRAIN       BINARY FORM       ROUNDED BINARY FORM       TERNARY FORM       SOLO; SOLI       STANZA       STROPHIC       THEME       THEMATIC TRANSFORMATION       RHYTHMIC TRANSFORMATION       MOTIVIC TRANSFORMATION       THROUGH-COMPOSED       TUTTI       VARIATIONS       VERSE       CONJUNCT       DISJUNCT       ROMAN NUMERALS       +       o       FIGURED-BASS NUMBERS       INVERTED TRIADS       SEVENTH CHORD SYMBOLS       8-7       9-8       7-6       4-3       2-3       Figured bass with slashed numbers or ...       M       m       PERFECT AUTHENTIC CADENCEPAC       IMPERFECT AUTHENTIC CADENCEIAC       CONCLUSIVE CADENCE       DECEPTIVE CADENCE       HALF CADENCE       PHRYGIAN HALF CADENCE       PLAGAL CADENCE       MAJOR SEVENTH CHORD       DOMINANT SEVENTH CHORD       MAJOR-MINOR SEVENTH       MINOR SEVENTH       HALF-DIMINISHED SEVENTH       FULLY-DIMINISHED SEVENTH       TONIC       SUPERTONIC       MEDIANT       SUBDOMINANT       DOMINANT       SUBMEDIANT       SUBTONIC       LEADING TONE       TONIC FUNCTION       DOMINANT FUNCTION       PREDOMINANT FUNCTION       CIRCLE OF FIFTHS       DECEPTIVE PROGRESSION       HARMONIC RHYTHM       MODULATION       COMMON TONE MODULATION       PHRASE MODULATION       PIVOT CHORD MODULATION       NEIGHBORING CHORD       FIGURED BASS REALIZATION       RETROGRESSION       SECONDARY DOMINANT       SECONDARY LEADING TONE CHORD       TONICIZATION       ARPEGGIATING 64       CADENTIAL 64       NEIGHBORING OR PEDAL 64       PASSING 64       ANTICIPATION       APPOGGIATURA       EMBELLISHMENT       ESCAPE TONE       NEIGHBORING TONE       LOWER NEIGHBOR       UPPER NEIGHBOR       NEIGHBOR GROUP       ORNAMENT       PASSING TONE       PEDAL POINT       PREPARATION       RESOLUTION       RETARDATION       SUSPENSION       SUSPENSION CHAIN       SOPRANO       ALTO       TENOR       BASS       CLOSE POSITION       OPEN POSITION       DOUBLING       FIRST INVERSION       SECOND INVERSION       THIRD INVERSION       INVERSION; INVERSION OF CHORDS       ROOT POSITION       INVERSION       COMMON TONE       CONTRARY MOTION       OBLIQUE MOTION       PARALLEL MOTION       SIMILAR MOTION       CROSS RELATION(false relation)       CROSSED VOICES(voice crossing)       VOICE EXCHANGE       OVERLAPPING VOICES       DIRECT FIFTHS(hidden fifths)       DIRECT OCTAVES(hidden octaves)       PARALLEL INTERVALS       PARALLEL FIFTHS       PARALLEL OCTAVES       TENDANCY TONE       UNRESOLVED LEADING TONE       UNRESOLVED SEVENTH       ARPEGGIO, ARPEGGIATION       CHROMATIC       DIATONIC       COMMON PRACTICE STYLE       CONSONANCE       DISSONANCE       FIGURED BASS       FLATTED FIFTH       LEAD SHEET       PICARDY THIRD       RESOLUTION       COMPOUND INTERVAL       HALF STEP (semitone)       WHOLE STEP       INTERVAL       INVERSION/ INVERSION OF AN INTERVAL       NUMERICAL NAMES       INTERVAL QUALITY       TRITONE       UNISON       ANTIPHONAL       ARTICULATION -- ARCO       ARTICULATION -- PIZZICATO       LEGATO       MARCATO       SLUR       STACCATO       TENUTO       CALL AND RESPONSE       CRESCENDO       DIMINUENDO (DECRESCENDO)       TERRACE DYNAMICS       PIANISSIMO       PIANO       MEZZO FORTE       FORTE       FORTISSIMO       MEZZO PIANO       IMPROVISATION       PHRASING       TEMPO       ADAGIO       ALLEGRO       ANDANTE       ANDANTINO       GRAVE       LARGO       LENTO       MODERATO       PRESTO       VIVACE       ACCELERANDO       RITARDANDO       RITENUTO       RUBATO       ANACRUSIS       AGOGIC ACCENT       DYNAMIC ACCENT       METRICAL ACCENT       ASYMMETRICAL METER       AUGMENTATION       DIMINUTION       BAR LINE       BEAT       BEAT TYPE/ simple       SIMPLE DUPLE TIME       SIMPLE TRIPLE TIME       SIMPLE QUADRUPLE TIME       BEAT TYPE/ compound       COMPOUND DUPLE TIME       COMPOUND TRIPLE TIME       COMPOUND QUADRUPLE TIME       METER (duple)       METER (triple)       METER (quaduple)       CHANGING METER/ multimeter       CROSS RHYTHM       POLYRHYTHM       IRREGULAR METER       DOT; DOUBLE DOT       DOTTED RHYTHM       DURATION       HEMIOLA       NOTE VALUE       PULSE       RHYTHM       SWING RHYTHM       SYNCOPATION       TEMPO       TIE       TIME SIGNATURE       DUPLET       TRIPLET       STRETTO       ACCIDENTAL       DIATONIC       KEY SIGNATURE       MAJOR       NATURAL MINOR       HARMONIC MINOR       MELODIC MINOR       MODES       IONIAN MODE       DORIAN MODE       PHRYGIAN MODE       LYDIAN MODE       MIXOLYDIAN MODE       AEOLIAN MODE       LOCRIAN MODE       PENTATONIC SCALE       WHOLE-TONE SCALE       CHROMATIC SCALE/ CHROMATICISM       MODALITY       TONALITY       PARALLEL KEY       RELATIVE KEY       SCALE DEGREES/ Tonic       SCALE DEGREES/ Supertonic       SCALE DEGREES/ Mediant       SCALE DEGREES/ Subdominant       SCALE DEGREES/ Dominant       SCALE DEGREES/ Submediant       SCALE DEGREES/ Subtonic       SCALE DEGREES/ Leading tone       TETRACHORD       TONAL       TONIC       LYRICS       STANZA       SYLLABIC       MELISMATIC       ALBERTI BASS       CANON       CANONIC IMITATION       CHORDAL ACCOMPANIMENT       CONTRAPUNTAL       COUNTERPOINT       TIMBRE       OSTINATO       REGISTER       WALKING BASS       TESSITURA       COUNTERPOINT: imitative polyphony       COUNTERPOINT: nonimitative polyphony       COUNTERMELODY       FUGAL IMITATION       HETEROPHONY, HETEROPHONIC       HOMOPHONY; HOMOPHONIC       POLYPHONY; POLYPHONIC       MONOPHONY; MONOPHONIC       CHORDAL HOMOPHONY/ HOMORHYTHMIC       MELODY AND ACCOMPANIMENT       MELODY       OBBLIGATO       TUTTI       SOLO; SOLI       ARIA       ART SONG       CONCERTO       FUGUE       GENRE       INTERLUDE       OPERA       PRELUDE       POSTLUDE       SONATA       STRING QUARTET       SYMPHONY       AUGMENTED TRIAD       DIMINISHED TRIAD       MAJOR TRIAD       MINOR TRIAD       BRASS       CONTINUO       PERCUSSION       RHYTHM SECTION       STRINGS       WOODWINDS      
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