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A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
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(music) A rapid alternation of two notes on two strings of a violin etc
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A singing voice combining parts of baritone and tenor
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The quality of a baritone voice.
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The male voice between tenor and bass
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A low spectrum of sound tones.
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An extremely low bass note that, when played through a subwoofer, physically shakes the listener.
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A type of loudspeaker enclosure that uses the sound from the rear side of the diaphragm to increase the efficiency of the system at low frequencies, as compared to a typical closed-box loudspeaker or an infinite baffle mounting.
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(music) a staff which starts with a bass clef
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(music) Resembling a bass.
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(music) The low-pitched instrumental part of a piece of popular music.
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(music) An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
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A voice with an upper range that is more developed than that of the basso profundo.
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(music) A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.
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Alternative spelling of basso profondo [(music) A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.]
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(music) The playing of the bass
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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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A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
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(transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
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(music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
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(music) A musical notation indicating that the strings of an instrument are to be struck with the wooden part of the bow.
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(music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
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person or instrument performing the contrabass part.
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Alternative form of countertenor [adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range]
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adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range
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(music) An open chord, i.e. one played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
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The deepest of all male voices.
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(music) The rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
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(music) A kind of counterpoint with a drone bass.
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Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
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(music) A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum.
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(music) A musical composition for the piano, designed to require the use of all the fingers of the hand for the purpose of skill development.
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(music) An electronic device or software that alters the sound of an instrument by combining out-of-phase copies of its original sound.
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(music) A time-based audio effect produced when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.
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Of a stringed instrument, not having frets on the fingerboard.
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(music, plural "grands") A grand piano
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(music) A harmonised melody played on guitar.
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Resembling or characteristic of a harpsichord.
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A singer with a deep, strong voice that spans the range between baritone and tenor
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(music) An electronic keyboard instrument specifically used to reproduce the bass note range.
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(music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
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The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
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(music) Strongly accented, or hammered out; used of notes played on bowed string instruments, handbells, or the piano.
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A voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
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(music) A variety of theremin in the form of a violin
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(obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
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(music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
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A flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
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(music, stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
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(music) A tuning of a guitar or other stringed instrument in which the strings sound a chord when strummed together without being pressed against the fretboard.
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A musical instrument with five strings.
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(musicology) Whole pieces, or large parts of pieces, which are to be played repeatedly, often an indefinite number of times.
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Long, slender fingers, such as might be suited for playing the piano.
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A compulsive raising and lowering movement of the fingers.
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(US, chiefly Southern US and New York) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
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(music) Abbreviation of pizzicato. [(music) To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.]
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(music) A note that is played pizzicato
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An organ stop yielding a tone one-twelfth above the digital struck.
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(music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)
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(music) A musical ornament consisting of a trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a tremolo or a regular trill.
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(rare, humorous) In the manner or likeness of the sound of a saxophone.
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(music) A Neapolitan percussion instrument composed of two wooden sticks, a serrated one and a smooth one, played by rubbing the former on the latter.
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(music) (of a string instrument or a manner of playing one) Performed with loosened strings, such that all of the strings play in the same key (most often G major).
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An adult male singer who sings music written in soprano range without the use of falsetto.
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Musical part or section higher in pitch than alto and other sections.
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A mute for musical instruments. For example, the mute instrument for the violin or the damper on the pianoforte.
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Someone who plays the sousaphone
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(music) A manner of playing a stringed instrument such that the bow is bounced off the strings after each note.
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(music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
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(music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
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(music) Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
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The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
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(music) Having a pitch below contrabass.
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(music, chiefly violin) Bowed near the bridge for the duration of a passage
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A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
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(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
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Someone who plays a tenor guitar.
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(music) A tenor form of the Catalan shawm
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Someone who plays a tenor saxophone.
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(music, of an instrument) Tuned between bass or baritone and alto
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Archaic spelling of tenor. [(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.]
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(music) A tetrachord (four-stringed) bouzouki; a type of chordophone.
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(music) The position when the thumb is contacting the string or strings of a stringed instrument.
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(music) A compositional style characterized by two types of voice, the first of which (the "tintinnabular voice") arpeggiates the tonic triad, and the second of which moves diatonically in stepwise motion.
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(music) A short or simple toccata.
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(music) Abbreviation of treble. [High in pitch.]
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(music) tenor, baritone, and bass
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A peg or screw used to tighten or loosen strings on a musical instrument in order to produce concordant sounds.
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(music) In piano music, the notation indicating that the player depresses the soft pedal, altering, and reducing the volume of the sound. In many pianos, this results in the hammer striking one string rather than three as in tre corde.
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(music) The use of a volume swell, a musical crescendo commonly associated with the electric guitar.
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