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Augmentation – the note duration of the motive is lengthened.

Cadential extension – a phrase extension that is placed at the end of the phrase.

Coda – a tonic expansion with a strong final cadence that follows the end of the phrase to give a strong feeling of the end.

Compound melody – two musical lines play at the same time to make one melody.

Contour motive – motive in which the shape of the musical idea is preserved.

Diminution – the note duration of the motive is shortened.

Elision – the situation in which the note at the end of the phrase is also the beginning of another phrase creating an overlap.

Extension – expansion of the motive.

Fortspinnung – the constant running of the motive throughout the piece, which was very common in the baroque period.

Fragmentation – a type of extension of the motive when part of the motive is used.

Hypermeter – a grouping and the counting of each measure as 1 beat to establish the direction of the music.

Inversion – the motive is transposed in its inversion.

Lead-in – a small passage preceding the beginning of the next phrase.

Link – same as lead-in.

Metric reinterpretation – a situation in which the hypermetric pattern disrupts because of elision.

Overlap – same as elision.

Phrase rhythm – an analysis of how the phrase and hypermeter interact.

Rhythmic motive – a type of motive in which the rhythm is preserved but not the shape.

Step Progression – compound melody connected by an overall step-wise motion.

Subphrase – a musical idea smaller than a phrase; usually half of the phrase.

Tonal inversion – an inversion of the generic intervals to stay in the key.

Truncate – to cut the motive off before it ends