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| Diegetic Music | Music that is heard by both the characters in the film and the audience watching the film. |
| Underscore | Music that is heard quietly under spoken dialogue in a film. |
| Leitmotif | A recurring theme or musical idea that is used to represent a character or place in the film. |
| Fanfare | A grand opening to a piece usually performed by a Brass section. |
| Quartal Harmony | Harmony created when chords are built using fourths one on top of each other instead of traditional thirds. |
| Inverted Pedal | Similar to a pedal (or pedal note) but heard above the main melodic line instead of below. |
| Neopolitan Sixth | A major chord built on the flattened second (supertonic). |
| Compound Interval | An interval bigger than an octave eg a ninth, eleventh etc. |
| Glissando | A continuous slide upwards, or downwards between two notes. |
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| Acoustic Guitar | Non-Electric classical or steel strung guitar |
| Riff | A repeated musical pattern, can be pitched or non-pitched. |
| Bossa-Nova | A genre of Brazilian Music. |
| Solo | When one performer improvises a solo. |
| Turnaround | A given chord (often a V7) that brings you back to the main 'head' or main melody. |
| Extended Chords | Chords with a 7th, 9th, 11th or 13th added. |
| Altered Chord | A chord where one note has been raised or lowered by a semi-tone. |
| Enharmonic Equivalent | All notes have two names eg A sharp or B flat. |
| Counterpoint | The relationship between voices who are harmonically independent (Polyphony). |
| Overdubbed | To record, or play, over an existing recording. |