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  2. Leading tone - Wikipedia

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    A leading-tone chord is a triad built on the seventh scale degree in major and the raised seventh-scale-degree in minor. The quality of the leading-tone triad is diminished in both major and minor keys. [12] For example, in both C major and C minor, it is a B diminished triad (though it is usually written in first inversion, as described below).

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.

  4. Tone pattern - Wikipedia

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    In Classical Chinese poetry, the presence or absence of formal tonal constraints regarding tone pattern varies according to the poetic form of a specific poem.Sometimes the rules governing the permissible tone patterns for a poem were quite strict, yet still allowed for a certain amount of liberty and variation, as in the case of regulated verse.

  5. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the seventh scale degree becomes a subtonic to the tonic because it is now a whole tone lower than the tonic, in contrast to the seventh degree in the major scale, which is a semitone tone lower than the tonic (leading-tone). Tonic triad: G

  6. Neo-Riemannian theory - Wikipedia

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    Later, Cohn pointed out that neo-Riemannian concepts arise naturally when thinking about certain problems in voice leading. [6] [7] For example, two triads (major or minor) share two common tones and can be connected by stepwise voice leading the third voice if and only if they are linked by one of the L, P, R transformations described above. [8]

  7. Neutral Tones - Wikipedia

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    "Neutral Tones" is a poem written by Thomas Hardy in 1867. Forming part of his 1898 collection Wessex Poems and Other Verses , it is the most widely praised of his early poems. [ 1 ] It is about the end of a relationship, and carries strong emotional appeal despite its "neutral tones".

  8. Regulated verse - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme of a poem can be difficult to determine, especially for older poems as pronounced in modern versions of Chinese; however, even as early as the Tang dynasty, formal rhyme might be based upon authoritative references in a rime table or rime dictionary, rather than on actual vernacular speech. Generally level tones only rhyme with level ...

  9. Tonicization - Wikipedia

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    The pitches used in a V/ii in this example include the notes A, C# and E (creating an A major chord). In the key of D minor, an A major chord is the dominant chord. In the key of C major, C sharp is an accidental. One can often find examples of tonicization by looking for accidentals, as there are always accidentals involved in tonicization.