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  2. Partial capo - Wikipedia

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    A capo is a tool which clamps across all the strings of a string instrument, to raise the pitch of all the strings. This is done to achieve a brighter timbre, or to transpose the music to a higher key. Guitarists have also used many alternate tunings to change the pitch of the open (unfretted) strings.

  3. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Since they are seldom played in concert with other instruments and carillonneurs need standardized sheet music, carillons often transpose to a variety of keys—whichever is advantageous for the particular installation; many transposing carillons weigh little, have many bells, or were constructed on limited funds. [2]

  4. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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    Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...

  5. Transposing instrument - Wikipedia

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    A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For example, playing a written middle C on a transposing instrument produces a pitch other than middle C; that sounding pitch identifies the interval of ...

  6. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In this chromatic transposition, the melody on the first line is in the key of D, while the melody on the second line is identical except that it is a major third lower, in the key of B ♭. In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant ...

  7. Musical gesture - Wikipedia

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    A subset of musical gestures is what could be called music-related body movement, which can be seen from either the performer's or the perceiver's point of view: Performer - movements that are part of a music performance or a performance with music: Sound-producing: musician or actor creating musical sound.

  8. Improvisation in music therapy - Wikipedia

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    Music therapy is a systematic process; it is not a series of random events. Systematic means that music therapy is "purposeful, organized, methodical, knowledge-based, and regulated" (Bruscia 1998). One of the most important features is its methodical processes. Methodical means that music therapy always proceeds in an orderly fashion.

  9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Transposing guitar in the key of G, developed for the Niibori Guitar Orchestra Guitar, 7 string 7 strings 7 courses. Standard/common: B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4. Alternate: Van Eps: A 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4; Choro: C 2 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4; 7 string classical guitar, "Brazilian" guitar, 7 string electric guitar US Van Eps aka "Jazz ...