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Alternative spelling of acciaccatura [(music) A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem.]
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(music) A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem.
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(music) A rest that has the same duration as a breve
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(music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
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In singing or speaking, a deep note, the lowest sound of the voice.
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(music) The characteristic sound made as part of the attack of certain notes on the organ.
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(music) A clipped backbeat; a muted chord that marks the off-beats or upbeats.
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(music) To accord; to harmonize together.
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Resembling or characteristic of a chord (musical notes played simultaneously).
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The playing of chords (especially if technically accomplished).
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(music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
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(music) the pitch that is heard (usually as played by one or more transposing instruments or a combination of transposing and non-transposing instruments)
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(music, countable) A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.
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(music) a secondary or supplemental melody played simultaneously with the primary melody.
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(music) Abbreviation of crescendo. [(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.]
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(music) A system of tuning a musical instrument to pitches other than the accepted standard: for example, tuning one or more strings of a violin to pitches other than the commonly accepted GDAE.
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(music) A meter of two minims (half notes) per measure.
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(music) A metric level faster than the beat level of a piece of music.
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A symbol in musical notation used to separate two sections or phrases of music.
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(music) A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16.
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Of a series of notes, falling in pitch in regular or musical intervals; descending.
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(music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
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(music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
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(music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
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(idiomatic, music) A steady, uniformly accented beat with a 4/4 time signature.
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(music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
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(music) A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
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(music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
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(music) A unit in which each regular measure is one beat (actually hyperbeat) of a larger meter.
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(music) A vocal part intermediate between the highest and the lowest.
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(music) Any periodic sound, especially one composed of a fundamental and harmonics, as opposed to simple periodic sounds (sine tones).
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(music) A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
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(music) A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes.
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(music) In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the right hand.
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(music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
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(music) Very small differences in the timing (of beats etc) during a performance
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(music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.
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(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
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(music) a musical instrument that is written in a the same pitch to how it sounds.
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(by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
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(music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
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(music) A smaller note marking a tone introduced between two others, to effect a smooth passage from the one to the other, but forming no essential part of the harmony.
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(music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
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(music) A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
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(music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
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(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
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Alternative form of pitch-perfect [(idiomatic) Utterly suitable and flawless with respect to tone, expression, appearance, or other major experienceable characteristics.]
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(music) A symbol, such as ※ or :S:, used to indicate where a voice is to begin singing in a canon or round.
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(music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
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An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
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(music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
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An instrument for marking time in musical movements.
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(music) An oscillator, in an electronic synthesizer, that operates an octave below another oscillator
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(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
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(music) Held at a certain pitch.
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(music) A symbol or numerical sign placed on a stave to indicate the meter; in the case of a numerical time signature, the numerator is the number of beats per bar, the denominator represents the value of each beat
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(music) a musical instrument that is written in a different pitch to how it sounds, often for ease of playing multiple instruments of the same family that have different ranges.
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(music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
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(music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
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An accompanying melody that is less prominent than the main melody.
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(music) A low or subdued note, such as a drone, that forms a background to the melody.
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An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
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(music) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.
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(music, voice) A note extremely high in the register, but not falsetto.
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