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(music) A chord progression, l–vi–IV–V, used in Western popular music, particularly common in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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A musical device, commonplace in the Western classical tradition, whereby a suspension is formed through a note a fourth above the bass which resolves to a third.
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(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
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(music) A chord containing one or more tones foreign to its proper harmony.
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(music) According to the time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.
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(music) A type of C-clef when placed on the third line of the staff in musical notation.
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(music) A recorder that is tuned either to F₄ or G₄.
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(music) A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
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(music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
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(music) A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.
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(music) The setting of one meter against another.
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(music) a neume denoting either a single tone, either elongated or rearticulated.
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(music) A neume that doubles the value of the first note in a series of virgae.
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(music) A chord whose notes are played in sequential descending or ascending order
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(music) an instrument that either does not transpose, or transposes by an octave or multiple octaves.
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(music) The barre chords C, A, G, E, and D.
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(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
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(more specifically) A chord progression.
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(music) A pattern of two or more chords, often chords diatonic to a particular key.
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A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]
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(music) Obsolete form of clef. [A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]]
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(music) A neume representing two notes descending.
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(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
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(music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
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(music) A counter-dominant chord.
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(music) Alternative form of daseian [(music) Using or relating to a medieval form of musical notation with varying numbers of staves and a system of four shapes rotated to represent eighteen pitches.]
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(by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
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(musical notation) Abbreviation of diminuendo. [(music) played in this style]
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(music) A neume that doubles the value of the first note in a series.
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(music) The raising or sharping of a tone, especially (historical) in relation to Ancient Greek music.
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A chord played with nine notes.
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(music) A chord characterized by one repeating interval.
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(music) A succession of chords of the sixth.
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(music) A musical notation in which intervals, chords and harmonizations are indicated by numbers written below a given bass note.
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(music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
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(music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
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(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
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(music) The lowness of a note.
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(music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
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(music) The academic study of chords.
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(music) A lyre with seven chords.
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(music) The tonic or keynote of a piece.
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(music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
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(music) Alternative form of limma [(music) Any of several small musical intervals, such as the semitone]
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(music) In ancient musical theory, the upper of the two movable notes between the hypate and mese, the lower being the parhypate.
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(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
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(music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
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(music) A change in key.
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(music) Alternative form of neume [(music) Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation.]
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(music) A symbol used for pitchless instruments, such as some of those used for percussion instruments, for which each line can represent a specific percussion instrument within a set, such as in a drum set.
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(rare, music) Nine beats per measure.
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A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
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(music) The repetition of a chord an octave higher or lower than the original
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(music) A note sustained through a series of chords, although only in harmony with the first and last.
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(music) One octave higher; as a marking, typically abbreviated 8va.
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(music, chiefly in the plural) A key with the same tonic as another key.
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(music) In ancient musical theory, the lower of the two movable notes between the hypate and mese, the upper being the lichanos.
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(music) a neume representing two notes ascending
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(music) A falling cadence in which a subdominant chord precedes the tonic; especially used in an ending Amen.
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(music) A musical instrument having ten strings.
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(music, idiomatic) A chord or combination of notes used in rock music and typically selected to sound good at high volume and high levels of distortion. Power chords make extensive use of intervals such as open fourths and fifths.
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(music) chord progression
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(music) a set of four tenor drums played by a drummer, typically in a marching band or drum corps
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(music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
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(music) a position of a chord when the root is the lowest note
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(music) A neume consisting of an ascending group of three notes, resembling the scandicus but having the second note emphasized.
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(music) A neume representing an ascending set of three tones.
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(music, obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
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(music) A series of Shepard tones constructed to give the illusion of a continuously rising (or falling) series of notes.
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(music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
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Alternative spelling of slack-key [(music) (of a string instrument or a manner of playing one) Performed with loosened strings, such that all of the strings play in the same key (most often G major).]
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(music) The octave below another.
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(music) A coupler in the organ by means of which is sounded an octave higher than the one struck.
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(music, informal) Short for suspended chord.
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(music) The most acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding timbre.
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(music) A neume denoting a set of three tones which first rise from the original tone, then fall.
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(music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
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(music) A staff that starts with a treble clef.
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(music) any set of three different pitch classes
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(music) A neume that trebles the value of the first note in a series of virgae.
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A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
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(music) The relative duration of a musical note.
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A musical symbol of the Western classical tradition, indicating the pitch of written notes.
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