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(music) A meter of two half notes per measure.
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(music, US) Alternative form of two hundred fifty-sixth note. [(music, very rare) A note played for 1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note.]
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(music, US) a note with 1/32 the length of a whole note
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(music) A meter of five quarter notes per measure.
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(music) A meter of five eighth notes per measure.
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(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
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(music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
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(music) High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.
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(music) A reference tuning pitch intended to imitate those used in the baroque period, usually with the musical note A above middle C tuned to four-hundred and fifteen Hertz, but sometimes as low as three hundred and ninety-two Hertz.
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The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
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(music) The lowest note of an instrument, written below the staff and the D note.
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(music) A graphic representation of the notes of a scale
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(music) a chord progression with ascending fourths and/or descending fifths
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(music) A meter of four quarter notes per measure.
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(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
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Alternative form of contra-octave [(music) The octave directly below the great octave.]
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(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
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(music) A rest having the same duration as a crotchet; a quarter rest.
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(music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.
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(music) A form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves.
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(obsolete, music) An interval.
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(music) Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music.
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(music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
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A notation used in music that increases the duration of the basic note by half of its original value.
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(music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
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(music) an instrument that produces a concert pitch of F when a C is written in the music
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(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
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(countable) An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
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(music) A meter or rhythm with four beats to a measure and four beats to a whole note. Specifically simple quadruple time or common time.
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(music) A diatonic succession of chords.
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(music) The octave that begins on the C that is two ledger lines below the staff of the bass clef
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(Canada, US, music) A musical note that is two beats long, which is half the length of a semibreve and equal in length to two crotchets; a minim.
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(music) A system of seven sounds.
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The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote, the tonic.
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(music) The highest tetrachord.
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(music) The hypophrygian mode.
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(music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
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(music) An interval measured by the distance between its two pitch classes ordered so they are as close as possible.
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(music) (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
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In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
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(music) The note on which a musical key is based; the tonic.
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(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
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(music) A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves.
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(music) The key on a piano or other keyboard instrument corresponding to this note.
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(music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
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A set of musical notes, typically ordered in pitch.
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(music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
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(music) Transposition by an octave.
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An audio effect in which a signal is combined with another version of itself that is an octave higher or lower.
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(music) Five notes (pitch classes) in a scale.
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(music) A type of imperfect cadence frequently found in Baroque compositions. The gesture consists of a iv⁶–V final cadence in the minor mode at the end of a slow movement or slow introduction. It implies that a fast movement is to follow without pause, generally in the same key.
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(music) An equivalence class of all pitches that are octaves apart, and which would be labeled by an integer, not a traditional letter name.
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(music) Initialism of passing tone. [(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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(obsolete, music) tetrachord
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(music) A tuplet of four notes.
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(Canada, US, music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
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(obsolete, music) A voice pitched a fifth above treble.
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(music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
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(music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
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(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
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(music, chiefly in the plural) A key with the same key signature as another key.
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(music, countable or uncountable) The interval between two notes.
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(music) A tone that is one or more octaves away from a given tone.
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(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
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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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(music, dated) A semibreve.
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(music) A quarter note, or crotchet.
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(music) A chord comprising the first six members of the harmonic series.
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(music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
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(music) a rest with the same length as a sixteenth note
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(music) a note with 1/64 the value of a whole note
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(music) A chord which has a bass note that is not the root note.
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(music) The triad built on the subdominant tone.
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(music) The octave above another.
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Alternative spelling of tablature [A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.]
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(music) A series of four sounds, forming a scale of two-and-a-half tones.
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(music) A specific pitch.
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(music) a symbol showing that the second line from the bottom of the stave represents the G above middle C
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(Canada, US, music) A semibreve, a musical note four beats long in 4/4 time.
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(music) 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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