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(music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification.
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(music) The practice of enlarging and revising the orchestration of an earlier work, usually a Baroque piece, to accommodate the larger contemporary orchestras and tastes of the time.
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(music) A secondary, weaker half of a musical beat.
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(music) An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase.
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(music) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
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(music) A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
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(music) A preexisting melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.
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(music) The conclusion of a passage; cadence.
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(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
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(music) A brief coda, or a brief segment between the themes of a fugue.
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(music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
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(music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
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(music) A fugue in which the answer or imitation to the melody is played in an inverse manner.
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(music) A contrapuntal composition in which one melody is superimposed on the same melody in reverse
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(music) The use of the rhythmic conflict found in polyrhythms as the basis of an entire musical work.
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(music) A counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme.
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(music) Alternative form of descant [A lengthy discourse on a subject.]
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(music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.
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(music) to play on two stopped strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
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(music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
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(music) The holding of a note or rest for longer than its usual duration; also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest.
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(music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
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(music) a large book showing all the notes of a composition with many simultaneous parts (instruments or voices), with all the parts shown in lines underneath each other in a fixed order. Commonly used by conductors.
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(music) A group of notes played together that are added to the melody, also known as the "turn" or grace notes.
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(music) In medieval music, a rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
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(music) One unit of hypermeter, generally a measure.
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(music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
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(music) A piece of music which serves as an introduction.
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(music) A technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern, used in some medieval motets and in more recent works.
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A number assigned to each work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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(music) An empty staff with movable notes used as a teaching aid
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(music) Regular rhythmic components of a song, including its metre and tempo.
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The pattern of the beats in a piece of music, which includes meter, tempo, and all other rhythmic aspects.
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(music) To indicate the tempo of a piece of music by means of a metronome setting
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Synonym of musical notation
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(music) Written using neumes
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A shorthand system for notating organ music, used mostly by the north German Baroque organ school, and distinguished from musical notation by the use of letter names, octave lines and other symbols instead of notes and accidentals and by the lack of staff lines.
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(music) An ornamental neume of unclear meaning, usually found added to another neume as an auxiliary note.
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(music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
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(music, informal) A portion of music at the end of a song; like an intro, but at the end instead of the beginning.
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(music) A piece of music to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
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(music) An ornamental passage in a musical work, often resembling a scale; or the performance of such a passage
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(music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.
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(music) A neume representing two notes ascending.
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(music) The pattern, as perceived, of tension and relaxation among events in various levels of structure, projected from time-span reduction.
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(music) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.
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(music) A neume of uncertain meaning, consisting of several jagged lines.
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(music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
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(music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
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(music) The music of a movie or play.
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(music) The second part in a concerted piece.
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(obsolete, music) The sound produced by a musical instrument
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To sing or utter with high pitch.
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(music) An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
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(music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.
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A sustained chord or tone generated by a synthesizer, often employed for background harmony or atmosphere.
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(music) The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
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(music) A style of composition in which one contrasting section of music is written between two similar outer sections.
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(music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
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(music) A blues form built on a twelve-measure chord progression, most typically based around the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords of a key.
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(music) The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.
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(music) A piece of background music.
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(music, historical, obsolete) Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.
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