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- Tzigane
![[French]](https://www.flutetunes.com/img/languages/fr.png "French")
Term used for a composition having gypsy influences or flavor. - motive The briefest intelligible and self-contained fragment of a musical theme or subject.
- one hundred and twenty-eighth note A note having the time duration of one hundred twenty-eighth of the time duration of a whole note.
- binary form Two-part structure of music; usually each part is repeated.
- mestizia
![[Italian]](https://www.flutetunes.com/img/languages/it.png "Italian")
Sadness. - veloce Fast.
- voice Either human voice or a melodic layer or part of a polyphonic composition.
- prestissimo Extremely fast tempo marking, usually around 200 BPM.
- style Characteristic manner of presentation of musical elements: melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, form, etc.
- mediant The third note of a diatonic scale.
- opéra comique French comic opera that is not necessarily sung throughout.
- Ausdrucksvoll
![[German]](https://www.flutetunes.com/img/languages/de.png "German")
Expressive. - precisamente Precisely, exactly.
- Gesamtkunstwerk The integration of all of the arts (music, poetry, dance and other visual elements) into a single medium of dramatic expression. This term was used by Richard Wagner to describe the vision of his later operas in the late Romantic era.
- volta “Time”, as in “first time” (prima volta) or “second time” (seconda volta).