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Alternative form of alap [(music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.]
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A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
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Clipping of alto saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the tenor saxophone but larger than the soprano saxophone, with a range of D♭₃ to A♭₅ or similar.]
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(music) A tenor viol or small bass viol.
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(music, of a musical instrument) Having two strings
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(music) A sound hole, shaped like a lower-case c, through the top surface of a string instrument.
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(music) Abbreviation of contrabassoon. [(music) A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.]
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(music, always capitalized, used in musical notation to indicate staffs to be played with harpsichord)
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The lowest range of the clarinet, reaching up to written B♭ (B flat) above middle C.
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(music) Synonym of aeolomelodicon
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(historical) A singer who accompanies a song played on the cithara.
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(music) Relating to a cithara or a citharist
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(music) Abbreviation of contrabassoon. [(music) A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.]
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(music) A type of bass viol with the ability to be tuned in a very broad range, originating in the performance of divisions in 17th century English.
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Alternative spelling of division viol [(music) A type of bass viol with the ability to be tuned in a very broad range, originating in the performance of divisions in 17th century English.]
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A violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound.
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An experimental musical instrument of the 1940s, having a piano-style keyboard (played with the right hand) and a controller that modified the sound (operated with the left hand).
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An ancient Greek nine-stringed musical instrument.
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(music, dated) The bassoon.
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(music) Synonym of monochord (used mainly in reference to ancient Greek music)
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(music) A large instrument, similar to a viola but with three strings and a flat bridge, originating in the traditional music of Transylvania.
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A stringed instrument with only one string.
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(music) Abbreviation of obbligato. [(music) An obbligato section; a prominent countermelody, often written to be played or sung above the principal theme (in a higher pitch range).]
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(music) A miniature virginal, pitched one octave higher than the larger version.
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(music, historical) An old musical instrument, resembling a lute, but strung with wire.
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(music) Initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass. [Musical part or section higher in pitch than alto and other sections.]
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(music) A pentatonic scale, the older of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pelog.
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Clipping of sopranissimo saxophone. [soprillo]
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Person or instrument that performs the soprano part.
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A person who plays the soprano saxophone.
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(music) A violin made by another manufacturer, named to capitalise on the fame of the instruments made by Antonio Stradivari.
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(music) A style of piano playing in which the left hand plays a four-beat harmony involving large intervals
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(music) a group of five musicians playing string instruments, usually adding a second viola or cello to the string quartet's formation.
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Clipping of subcontrabass saxophone. [The largest member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments, one size larger than the contrabass saxophone and with a range of A♭₀ to E♭₃ or similar.]
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(music) Any of a set of auxiliary strings found on certain musical instruments, generally not played directly by the performer but used to provide resonance in response to the main strings.
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(music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola.
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A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
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(music) Abbreviation of trill. [(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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(music) Musical notation indicating that the player release the soft pedal of the piano. In many pianos, this results in the hammer striking three string rather than one as in una corda.
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A musical instrument with three strings, such as a lyre or harp.
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(music) Abbreviation of viola. [(botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.]
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A person who plays the viola.
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(music) An altered viol maximizing players’ ability to play in a highly virtuosic style of composition or extemporaneous performance.
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(music) An 18th-century five-stringed form of viola
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A kind of tenor viola or tenor violin tuned an octave below the violin.
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(music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
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