Orchestra TTT P

partita

suite

passsacaglia

baroque dance with recurrent bass pattern

pastorale

musical expression; idealization of the rural

pavan

duple-metre dance

pentatonic

5-note scale; two whole tones, a minor third, and a whole tone

philharmonic

adopted by orchestras

phrase

recognizable musical unit; forming a sentence

piano

soft

piu

more

pizzicato

plucked

poco

little

polacca

polish

polka

bohemian dance

polonaise

polish dance in triple metre

ployphony

writing of music in many parts with reference to contrapuntal practices

postlude

played at the end of a piece and indicates additional piano phrases

prelude

movement that comes before another movement; short

presto

fast

programme music

music that has a narrative extra-musical content

psalms

texts from the Book of Psalms that are sung