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Handclaps

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backbeatnoun(music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.
synthsnoun(slang) A musical synthesizer.
harmoniesnounAgreement or accord.
melodynounA sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
falsettosnouna sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn.
vocalsnoun(music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist.
outronoun(informal) The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game, etc.
riffsnounthe twenty-sixth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in November 2003.
polyrhythmsnoun(uncountable, music) Music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously.
drumbeatsnounThe sound of a beating drum.
chorusesnounA group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
glissandosnoun(music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
jazzynounFlashy or showy.
dancynounA surname.
dirgenounA mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.
tremolosnoun(music) A rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes. It can also be intended to mean a rapid and repetitive variation in pitch for the duration of a note. It is notated by a strong diagonal bar across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless notes).
syncopationnoun(music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.
ostinatonoun(music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
melismanoun(music, countable) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text.
torchynoun(music) Having the character of a torch song.

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