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Mambo

Music; General music

Dance of Afro-Cuban origin with a characteristic quadruple-meter rhythmic pattern.

Terraced dynamics

Music; General music

Expressive style typical of Baroque music in which volume levels shift based on the playing forces used.

Dissonance

Music; General music

Combination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable, in need of resolution.

Programme music

Music; General music

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century.

Mandolin

Music; General music

Plucked-string instrument with a rounded body and fingerboard; used in some folk musics and in country-western music.

Tertian harmony

Music; General music

Harmony based on the interval of the third, particularly predominant from the Baroque through the nineteenth century.

Divertimento

Music; General music

Classical instrumental genre for chamber ensemble or soloist, often performed as light entertainment. Related to serenade and cassation.

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