Usually means: Alternate tuning for string instruments.
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  1. scordatura: Merriam-Webster
  2. scordatura: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scordatura: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scordatura: Wordnik
  5. scordatura: Wiktionary
  6. scordatura: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. scordatura: Dictionary.com
  8. Scordatura: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scordatura)

▸ noun:  (music) cross-tuning

Similar:
cross-tuning, cambiata, cross-phrasing, augmented unison, polychord, false harmonic, dissonance, neighbor tone, paraphone, passing tone, more...

Opposite:
tuning, standard tuning

Types:
Kirnberger III, Werkmeister III, Valotti, Pythagorean, just intonation, more...

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Similar:
cross-tuning, cambiata, cross-phrasing, augmented unison, polychord, false harmonic, dissonance, neighbor tone, paraphone, passing tone, more...

Opposite:
tuning, standard tuning

Types:
Kirnberger III, Werkmeister III, Valotti, Pythagorean, just intonation, more...



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