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(music, countable or uncountable) The exact pitch of a note as established by its rate of vibration based on a standard scale.
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(music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
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(music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
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(music) quarter tone scale, or 24 tone equal temperament.
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(music) A sequence of four notes (B flat, A, C, B natural), included in a piece of music as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach.
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(music) A chord of two notes played at the same time.
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(music) A double whole note.
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(music) Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody.
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(music) A compound neume consisting of one or more notes appended both before and after a neume.
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(music) the reference pitch using the standard of A440
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(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
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(music) Describing a musical notation in which the pitch of a note is represented by its vertical position on the page.
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A symbol in musical notation used to subdivide long measures into shorter segments for ease of reading.
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(music) A double whole note.
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(music) A schematic group of twelve notes.
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A musical interval of nine notes.
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(music, stringed instruments) a harmonic produced by lightly touching the string at the point where the notated pitch is played, but producing a different pitch
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(music) An incorrect note which is sung or played in a musical performance.
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(music) A type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. It may be a chromatic contradiction between two notes sounding simultaneously (or in close proximity), in two different voices or parts; or the occurrence of a tritone between two notes of adjacent chords.
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(music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
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(music) A group (of musicians and/or singers) comprising four people; a quartet.
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(music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
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(music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
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(music) The highest and usually climactic note of a song or composition, especially one that is difficult to reach.
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(music) A note played for 1⁄128 of the duration of a whole note.
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(music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
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(transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
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(music) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch.
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(psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.
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(music) The pulses in a metric structure.
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(music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
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(music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
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(music) a sound produced by lightly touching the string as opposed to pressing it against the fingerboard, usually with the actual pitch notated
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(music) Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation.
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(music) a note that is played or sung between two chords that is not a part of either chord
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(music) A group of eight musicians performing together.
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(derogatory) being out of key
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A simple notation used to identify a piece of music through the falling and rising motion of its pitch.
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(music, chiefly UK) A cadence involving the resolution of the dominant chord (V) to the root chord (I).
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(music, less common, countable or uncountable) The exact pitch of a note, described by its frequency in vibrations per second.
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(music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
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(music) Off pitch; out of tune.
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(music) A neume denoting a set of three tones which first fall from the original tone, then rise.
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(transitive, music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale
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(music) A rest of the same duration as a quarter note.
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(music, uncountable) The ability to identify or create a given note by comparing it with a reference note and discerning the interval between those two notes.
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(music) A superposition of sine waves, separated by an octave, whose relative amplitude may be varied to give the illusion of a rising or falling note.
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A minor related mention, made as an aside, or afterthought.
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Alternative form of sol-fa [To sing a sol-fa]
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(geometry) A portion of a chord.
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(music) A compound neume consisting of one or more notes appended after a neume.
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(music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
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A set of tones played in sequence
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(music) The highest note that can be produced by a certain instrument or singer.
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(music) A change of key.
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(music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
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(music) A rhythm or time with three beats per bar: one accented followed by two unaccented.
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(music) A neume that trebles the value of the first note in a series.
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A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
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(music, very rare) A note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note.
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(music, acoustics) A sound or note having the same pitch as another, especially when used as the base note for an interval; a unison string.
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(music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
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