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(music) A note whose duration is one sixty-fourth that of a whole note.
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(music) an accent that accentuates a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value
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(music) the range of a melody, especially those of ecclesiastical chants
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(music) A particular sign as represented in music; a sound or melody that represents something, such as motion or romance.
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The school of atonal musical composition
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(music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
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(idiomatic) To produce music, especially to sing, with accurate relative pitch.
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(music) A theory about the composition of a melody or piece based on pre-existing melodic figures and formulas.
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(transitive) To write chords for.
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(music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
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(music) A metre with two beats, each divided into three.
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(music) Time in which each bar is made up of two or more simple bars.
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(probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
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(music) Of or relating to counterpoint.
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(music, rare) The use of counterpoint.
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(music) A melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains its simultaneous identity; a composition consisting of such contrapuntal melodies.
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(music, historical) A singing system resembling solfeggio, developed by German composer and tenor Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), and using the syllables da, me, ni, po, tu, la, be, to.
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(music) Of Ancient Greek music: having an elevating influence.
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(music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
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(music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
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(music, of notes and rests) With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
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(music, stringed instruments) two notes being played simultaneously
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(music) a chord or combination composed of two notes played on separate strings simultaneously.
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(music) A group of twelve musicians; a piece of music written for such a group
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(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
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Synonym of top note (“most volatile parts of a perfume”)
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(music) A note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.
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(music) a texture in which two or more parts move together in harmony, the relationship between them creating chords.
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(music) The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
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A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
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(music) Confirming the pulses on (i.e. pattern of) the metric level.
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(music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
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(music) The inverted part of a composition.
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(music) A focus on the development of melody
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The branch of music theory that deals with pitch and melody.
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(music) European system(s) of musical notation, in use in different forms from c.1260 to c.1600, in which each note was given an exact time value
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(American spelling) The overall rhythm of a song or poem; particularly, the number of beats in a measure or syllables in a line.
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(intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
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(music) The use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.
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An interlude in some performance during which music is played.
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(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.
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(music) A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.
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To create notation (e.g. music or mathematics); to record/put down in the form of notation
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(countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
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A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
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Without singing or playing any musical notes out of tune or incorrectly.
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(acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
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(music) Short notes added to a composition to emphasize certain notes and to add style.
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(music) pandiatonic composition
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(music) A sound midway between a concord and a discord.
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(music) In Byzantine music, a melodic progression by consonances (fourths and fifths).
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(music) The printing of each instrument's part on a separate stave
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(figuratively, uncountable) By extension, a reliable innate sense of exactly what is true, appropriate, or needed in a given particular situation.
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(music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
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(idiomatic) Utterly suitable and flawless with respect to tone, expression, appearance, or other major experienceable characteristics.
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(transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
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(music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
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(music) Two or more chords, each constructed in a different manner, one on top of the other; multiple chords.
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(music) The use of different metres or time signatures either simultaneously or in succession
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(music) The use of multiple keys in the same composition, especially by multiple instruments at the same time
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(music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.
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(music) In chanting, a note on which several syllables are sung.
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(music) A composition technique where the composer inverts the retrograde of a melody or makes the retrograde of the inversion of the melody, using only notes in the same key as the original melody.
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(music) The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect.
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(music) A method of musical composition based on mathematical processes, comprising theories of rhythm, harmony, melody, counterpoint, form, and semantics.
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(music) Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale.
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(music) Initialism of short meter. [(hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic lines, of which the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter.]
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A musical composition practice in which compositional decisions are often informed by the analysis of sound spectra
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(music) A neume resembling an apostrophe, possibly indicating a small variation in pitch.
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(music) Alternative form of submotif [(music) A motif forming part of a larger motif.]
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A tune that makes up part of a larger musical work or collection of tunes.
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(music) A composition in three voice parts.
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(music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
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A liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists Gregorian chants according to the Gregorian mode or tonus of their melodies within the eight-mode system.
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(music) Program music, or the process of composing it.
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(music) The triad built on the tonic note.
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(music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
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(music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
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(music) The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
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(music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
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(music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
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(poetic) A natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest.
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(music, rare) xenharmonic music generally.
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(music, uncommon) A studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.
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