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  2. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...

  3. Instrumental idiom - Wikipedia

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    In music, an instrumental idiom refers to writing, parts, and performance, those being idiomatic or nonidiomatic depending on how well each is suited to the specific instrument intended, in terms of both ease of playing and quality of music and the inherent tendencies and limitations of specific instruments.

  4. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    According to Andranik Tangian, [7] analytical phrasing can be quite subjective, the only point is that it should follow a certain logic. For example, Webern’s Klangfarbenmelodie-styled orchestral arrangement of Ricercar from Bach’s Musical offering demonstrates Webern’s analytical phrasing of the theme, which is quite subjective on the one hand but, on the other hand, logically consistent:

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Relating to music produced by instruments, as opposed to electric or electronic means ad libitum (commonly ad lib; Latin) At liberty (i.e. the speed and manner of execution are left to the performer. It can also mean improvisation.) adagietto Fairly slowly (but faster than adagio) adagio Slowly adagissimo Very, very slowly affannato, affannoso ...

  6. Beam (music) - Wikipedia

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    A quaver, a dotted quaver, and a semiquaver, all joined with a primary beam (the semiquaver has a secondary beam) In musical notation, a beam is a horizontal or diagonal line used to connect multiple consecutive notes (and occasionally rests) to indicate rhythmic grouping.

  7. Slur (music) - Wikipedia

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    A slur is a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played without separation (that is, with legato articulation).A slur is denoted with a curved line generally placed over the notes if the stems point downward, and under them if the stems point upwards.

  8. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    The pitches of open strings on a violin. Play ⓘ. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string.. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings of the bass guitar and double bass.

  9. Musical gesture - Wikipedia

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    Acknowledging the multimodal nature of music perception, embodied music cognition could represent a change of paradigm in music theory and other music related research, research which has often tended to exclude considerations of bodily movement from its conceptual apparatus in favour of focus on more abstract, notation-based elements of music ...