5 Music Terms For The Day

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Ritardando, rit - Gradually slower. Synonymous with rallentando.

Sequence - The repetition of a melodic pattern on a higher or lower pitch level. 

Ti - In solmization, the seventh degree of the major scale. Also called the leading tone.

Alla breve - Cut time; meter in which there are two beats in each measure and a half note receives one beat. 

Chromatic scale - A scale composed of 12 half steps.