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(music, US) Abbreviation of hundred twenty-eighth note. [(music) A note played for 1⁄128 of the duration of a whole note.]
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(music) A meter of two quarter notes per measure.
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(music) A meter of three quarter notes per measure.
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(music) A meter of six eighth notes per measure, usually with secondary stress on the fourth eighth note.
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(music) A meter of nine quavers per measure.
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(music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
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(music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
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(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
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(music) a chord that contains a lowered submediant scale degree and a raised subdominant scale degree
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(music) A note in a chromatic scale
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(music) Initialism of circle of fourths.
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(music) The octave directly below the great octave.
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(music) a falling cadence in which the ear expects the a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but resolves to something else (usually a submediant chord) instead.
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(music) A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
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(music) In microtonal music, a note played a quarter tone lower than a natural.
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(music) A note having a time value half as long as a quasihemidemisemiquaver or 128th note; a two hundred fifty-sixth note, a 256th note.
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(music) The last tetrachord, in the case where two tetrachords were placed separately from each other, but with only the interval of a tone between them.
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(music) 12-tone music, a form of composition using all 12 tones of the chromatic scale in such a way that they are "equal", i.e. having no tonic, no dominant, no major or minor keys, and no distinction between harmony and dissonance.
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(music) chromatic scale, using twelve-tone technique
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(music) A group of twelve notes, typically to be played in place of eight
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(music) An accidental that indicates that a note should be played a whole step higher.
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(US, music) A note with twice the value of a whole note.
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(music) Of a note, having a duration of 1¾ times its basic note value.
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(Canada, US, music) A note having one-eighth the duration of a whole note; a quaver
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(music theory) A tuning system in which every interval (as a ratio of frequencies) is some exactly positive integral power of some smallest, other than the unison, base interval. In particular:
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(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second from a note in the previous chord and more than a second from a note in the next chord
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The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
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(music) To lower by a semitone.
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(music) All the notes in a musical scale.
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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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Alternative form of halftone [(music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.]
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(music, physics) The sequence of all positive integer multiples of a base frequency.
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(music) The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time.
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(music) Describing a mode or scale that has six pitches in an octave.
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(music) The eighth note in the sol-fa system, being an octave above doh.
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(music) Of or relating to a musical mode or diatonic scale in medieval chant theory, the fourth mode of church music and the plagal counterpart of the authentic third mode, or Phrygian.
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(music) Within the octave.
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(music) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament.
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(music) Any of several small musical intervals, such as the semitone
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Alternative spelling of low-pitched [Of a sound, having a comparatively low pitch.]
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(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
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(music) A chord that does not have one consistent interval.
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(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
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(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second either higher or lower than two notes that are unison in two chords
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(music) Initialism of neighbor tone. [(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second either higher or lower than two notes that are unison in two chords]
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(music) Containing eight notes.
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(music) Transposed by an octave.
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(music, rare) To octavate.
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(music) A group of eight notes played in the time of six.
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(music) A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same denominator.
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(music) Formed freely from all degrees of a diatonic scale without regard for their diatonic function, sometimes to the extent of no single pitch being felt as a tonic.
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(music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
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(music) a non-harmonic tone that is a second lower than a note in one chord and a second higher than a note in the other chord
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(music) Composed of five notes
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(music) an interval that is either a unison, fourth, fifth, or an octave
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(music) an interval that has no difference between two notes
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(music) Any two or more pitches or pitch classes all of which occur simultaneously, or at the same time. It may be thought of as a more general term for any possible chord. Any chord progression or harmonic progression is then a simultaneity succession, though not all simultaneity successions are harmonic progressions and not all simultaneities are chords.
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(music) Designating a mode lying a perfect fourth below the authentic form.
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(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
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(music) The relative time value of a minim to a semibreve in medieval music.
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(music) The lowest note in Ancient Greek music, appended to the bottom of the scale.
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Alternative spelling of pyknon [(music) The lower part of a tetrachord in Ancient Greek music, consisting of a composite interval (two successive intervals) that is less than the remaining (incomposite) interval.]
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(music) An interval of four whole tones.
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(music, obsolete) An interval of a fifth, or a part sung with such intervals.
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(music) An interval of one fifth.
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(music) A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of three, four or six.
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(music) having five crotchets in a bar
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(music) A very small interval equal to half a comma.
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(jazz) A stressed note, deliberately incorrect.
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(music) A musical note four beats long in 4/4 time; a whole note (US)
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(music) A semibreve rest is a pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
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(music) hemidemisemiquaver (a 64th note)
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(music) An imperfect or diminished fourth.
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(music) quasihemidemisemiquaver.
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(music) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
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(music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to half a quaver rest
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(music) Raised in pitch by half a note. Made into a sharp note.
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(music) A meter or rhythm with four beats to a measure and four beats to a whole note. Specifically common time.
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(music) a note that has 1/16 the value of a whole note
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(music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
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(music) The note immediately below the upper note of a musical scale.
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(music) A small comma-type interval between two musical notes, equal to the frequency ratio 81:80 (= 1.0125) or around 21.51 cents.
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(music) The final, resolving note of a scale.
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(music) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
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(music) Obsolete form of treble clef. [(music) a symbol showing that the second line from the bottom of the stave represents the G above middle C]
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(music) A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same numerator; a subharmonic series.
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(music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
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