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(music, uncountable) Pressure sensitivity on an electronic synthesizer, allowing the musician to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck.
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(music, of the notes of a chord) To represent separately on a score.
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(music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
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(music) The main level of a piece.
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(music) To measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
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(music, uncountable) The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice.
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Sung using a chest voice above the singer's break or passaggio.
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(music) A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
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(music) A short capriccio
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A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.
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(music) The music regulating the cotillion.
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(slang) (of an electric guitar or its amplifier) At volume setting 10 (the loudest).
adv
(music) Sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.
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(music) The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke).
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(music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
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(music) The primary, stronger half of a musical beat.
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(music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
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(music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
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(music) A constantly repeated bassline or harmonic pattern in a piece.
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An instrument to aid in forming a good position of the hands and arms when playing the piano.
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(music) An electronic pitch shift effect where the shifted version is played alongside the original in harmony.
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(music) The musical notation that indicates that a particular instrument to play slightly louder than the others so as to stand out over the ensemble; in relief.
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(figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
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(music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
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(countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
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(music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
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Initialism of mano sinistra. [(music) In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the left hand.]
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(music) In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the right hand.
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(music) In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the left hand.
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The amplification and distortion of small sounds for use in experimental noise music.
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(music) With a medium fullness of sound.
adj
(music) moderately soft
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Synonym of midwoof (type of speaker)
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(chiefly jazz) An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
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(music) The first and third beats in a bar of four-four time.
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(music) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
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(music, by extension) Any piece of classical music with similar characteristics.
adj
(music) distorted by phase
n
(music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
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The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
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(video games) A game that challenges the player to press buttons etc. to match a timed sequence indicated on the screen, usually in order to make the game character perform music or dance moves.
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Alternative form of ricercar [An instrumental musical composition, fugal in style but in a more serious character and with longer notes.]
n
A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
v
To sing an elaborate embellishment of several notes to one syllable.
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(music) Without the mute. Specifically for the piano: with the sustain pedal.
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(music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
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(informal, music) A monitor speaker (one of a set) placed at the sides of a stage
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(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
adj
Ellipsis of sotto voce. [(of speech, of a voice, etc) In soft tones; quiet.]
adj
(music) Soft, instruments or voice.
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(music, historical) A mute; a damper.
n
An electronic speaker designed to produce low-frequency sound, especially bass.
adv
(music, chiefly violin) Bowed near the fingerboard for the duration of a passage
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(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
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(music) An instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece.
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(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
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(music) A repeated rhythmic pattern used in isorhythm.
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(music) A short or simple toccata.
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(music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
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(music) A variation in the volume of a note or a chord, evoking a tremor or quiver.
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A beat that runs beneath a piece of music.
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(music) A damper located beneath the hammers in a piano.
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An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase.
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