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| A backboard of stressed and unstressed beats in a repeating pattern |
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| Each occurrence of a grouping of meter |
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| Number of beats in a measure |
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| Terms placed above the top staff, sometimes at the beginning of a piece on when there is a tempo change |
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| Set of seven pitches represented bu the white notes on the piano |
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| Organized series of pitches, easy to recognize |
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| No accompaniment. Single, male, baritone voice. In Latin, no meter |
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| Earliest genre of medieval polyphonic music, Gregorian chant inside polyphonic tune |
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| The main secular voice genre from the Renaissance |
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| Bass line in music plus harmony, cello harpsichord with functional harmony |
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| Has set direction, not random |
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| Group of stylized dance pieces, everyone dances the same |
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| Half singing, half reciting of presenting words in opera. Conversation in music dialogue |
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| A vocal number for singer and orchestra, generally in an opera |
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| The orchestral material at the beginning of a concerto grosso, which always returns later in the piece |
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| Brass, stringed, percussion, and woodwinds |
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| One soloist playing with a larger group |
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| Baroque solo concerto grosso |
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| Group of soloists with whole orchestra |
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| When there is more than one melody happening at the same time |
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| Specific melody with accompaniment |
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