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(music, uncountable) Perfect pitch; the ability to identify or produce any tone without need of an external reference.
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(music) A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs.
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(music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
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Relating to the absence of half steps.
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(music) A pentatonic scale that does not contain half steps.
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(music) The simultaneous presence of two keys in a piece of music
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A neume denoting a descending set of three tones.
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(music) The psychoacoustic phenomenon of an additional tone or tones being perceived when two real tones are sounded at the same time.
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(music) A meter with three subdivisions for every pulse.
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(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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Anything having ten parts.
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(music) The characteristic of being diatonic
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(music, obsolete) Disjoining two fourths.
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(obsolete, music) An interval of two tones
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(music) A practicioner or proponent of dodecaphony, i.e. use of the dodecaphonic musical scale, which has twelve tones per octave
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(music) Being the dominant
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(music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
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(music) Describing two or more identical or almost identical notes that are written differently when in different keys. (Whether they are identical depends on the tuning method used.)
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(music) Based on nine tones.
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(ancient music) Intra-octavally consonant.
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(music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
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relating to half steps
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(poetry) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.
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(music) A group of seven decads arranged to produce twenty-four tones
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(music) Of or pertaining to a hexachord
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(music) A derivative of an octave in which two notes are missing
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(music) That which unfolds a single recurrent interval in a series that closes with a return to the initial pitch class.
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(music) The relationship between two pitch class sets that can be arranged into K-nets that are isographic (in the mathematical sense).
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(music) A 13th century system for governing rhythmic relationships in music that was a precursor to the modern use of time signatures; The use of mensural notation.
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The use of microtones in music.
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(music) The use of microtones in composition.
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(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
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Relating to multiple musical chords.
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(archaic, rare) Alternative form of nonet [(music) A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.]
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A musical system of eight tones.
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(music) Of, pertaining to, or relating to an octave.
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(signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
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(music) Pitched inaccurately either above or below the correct note.
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(physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.
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The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
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(music) Twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key).
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(music) The condition of being pentatonic
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(music) A voice in a musical composition (usually for male voices) above the treble; descant.
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(music) A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes; a longa.
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(US, music) A note with twice or thrice the value of a double whole note.
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(music, of harmony) Having a distinct preference for intervals of fourths.
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(music) A musical composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
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(guitar) A barely thumb-muted pinch harmonic that does not completely deaden the fundamental note.
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(music) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.
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A ratio of 9 to 8, especially in music.
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(music) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
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(music) A motif forming part of a larger motif.
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A secondary or lesser tone (in sound or colour).
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(music) a pitch that tends to move toward another pitch, usually the submediant or the leading tone
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(music) A terzetto; a composition in three voice parts.
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(music) Relating to a tetrachord.
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The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.
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(music) A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.
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In the Suzuki method of music teaching, the student's ability to produce and recognize a beautiful, ringing tone quality from a musical instrument.
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(Scientology) A subjective appraisal of a person's spiritual aliveness, usually given by an auditor, ranging from 'total failure' to 'serenity of beingness'.
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(music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
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(music) The temporary change of an originally non-tonic tone to tonic.
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Containing musical triplets.
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A system of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg, as a method of composing with twelve notes which are related solely to each other.
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(music) A group of eleven musicians; a piece of music written for such a group
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(music, acoustics) Identical pitch between two notes or sounds; the simultaneous playing of notes of identical pitch (or separated by one or more octaves).
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