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  2. Prolongation - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, prolongation is the process in tonal music through which a pitch, interval, or consonant triad is considered to govern spans of music when not physically sounding. It is a central principle in the music-analytic methodology of Schenkerian analysis , conceived by Austrian theorist Heinrich Schenker . [ 1 ]

  3. Chorography - Wikipedia

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    However, its resonances of meaning have varied at different times. Richard Helgerson states that "chorography defines itself by opposition to chronicle. It is the genre devoted to place, and chronicle is the genre devoted to time". [3] Darrell Rohl prefers a broad definition of "the representation of space or place". [4]

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...

  5. Tie (music) - Wikipedia

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    Ties are normally placed opposite the stem direction of the notes, unless there are two or more voices simultaneously. [ 3 ] The tie shown at the top right connects a quarter note (crotchet) to a sixteenth note (semiquaver), creating a note 5 ⁄ 4 as long as a quarter note, or five times as long as a sixteenth note—there is no single note ...

  6. Music geography - Wikipedia

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    Music geography is a sub-field within both urban geography and cultural geography. Music geography is the study of music production and consumption as a reflection of the landscape and geographical spaces surrounding it. It became evident that individuals associate music with space. [1] Historically, music was purely an oral tradition that was ...

  7. Staccato - Wikipedia

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    The opposite musical articulation of staccato is legato, signifying long and continuous notes. [6] There is an intermediate articulation called either mezzo staccato or non legato . For wind and bowed string instruments in particular, staccato is often also associated with a faster attack, potentially involving a different bowing or tonguing ...

  8. Contrapuntal motion - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, contrapuntal motion is the general movement of two or more melodic lines with respect to each other. [1] In traditional four-part harmony, it is important that lines maintain their independence, an effect which can be achieved by the judicious use of the four types of contrapuntal motion: parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion, and oblique motion.

  9. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

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    The term cromatico (Italian) was occasionally used in the Medieval and Renaissance periods to refer to the coloration (Latin coloratio) of certain notes.The details vary widely by period and place, but generally the addition of a colour (often red) to an empty or filled head of a note, or the "colouring in" of an otherwise empty head of a note, shortens the duration of the note.