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  2. Vocal cords - Wikipedia

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    The vocal folds of children are much shorter than those of adult males and females. The difference in vocal fold length and thickness between males and females causes a difference in vocal pitch. Additionally, genetic factors cause variations between members of the same sex, with males' and females' voices being categorized into voice types.

  3. Variation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Theme-and-variation forms are, however, based specifically on melodic variation, in which the fundamental musical idea, or theme, is repeated in altered form or accompanied in a different manner. Theme-and-variation structure generally begins with a theme (which is itself sometimes preceded by an introduction), typically between eight and ...

  4. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  5. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    For example, some country performers have managed to get "crossover" hits in the pop charts. In an audio engineering context, a crossover is a frequency filter system that divides the frequencies in a signal into low and high or low, mid, and high components. In this way, the different frequencies can be routed to the appropriate speakers. crunch

  6. Song structure - Wikipedia

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    Song structure is the arrangement of a song, [1] and is a part of the songwriting process. It is typically sectional, which uses repeating forms in songs.Common piece-level musical forms for vocal music include bar form, 32-bar form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues.

  7. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).

  8. Slow movement (music) - Wikipedia

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    Each variation is a recurrence of the theme with melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and ornamental changes. Theme and variations sometimes contain one Minore variation. This variation will have a contrasting tonality, and may be different in form from the theme. Theme and variations may also have a coda to finalize the piece.

  9. Category:Variation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Variation (music)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...