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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. List of pitch intervals - Wikipedia

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    The extremes of the meantone systems encountered in historical practice are the Pythagorean tuning, where the whole tone corresponds to 9:8, i.e. ⁠ (3:2) 2 / 2 ⁠, the mean of the major third ⁠ (3:2) 4 / 4 ⁠, and the fifth (3:2) is not tempered; and the 1 ⁄ 3-comma meantone, where the fifth is tempered to the extent that three ...

  4. Comma (music) - Wikipedia

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    Syntonic comma on C Pythagorean comma on C . In music theory, a comma is a very small interval, the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways. [1] Traditionally, there are two most common comma; the syntonic comma, "the difference between a just major 3rd and four just perfect 5ths less two octaves", and the Pythagorean comma, "the difference between twelve 5ths and seven ...

  5. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s, few universities had dedicated music theory programs, many music theorists had been trained as composers or historians, and there was a belief among theorists that the teaching of music theory was inadequate and that the subject was not properly recognised as a scholarly discipline in its own right. [106]

  6. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    16, for example, is a three-beat measure in aksak, with one long and two short beats (with subdivisions of 2+2+3, 2+3+2, or 3+2+2). [ 14 ] Folk music may make use of metric time bends, so that the proportions of the performed metric beat time lengths differ from the exact proportions indicated by the metric.

  7. Category:Music theory - Wikipedia

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    Music theory is a set of systems for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music. Narrowly it may be defined as the description in words of ...

  8. Pitch space - Wikipedia

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    The simplest pitch space model is the real line. A fundamental frequency f is mapped to a real number p according to the equation = + ⁡ (/) This creates a linear space in which octaves have size 12, semitones (the distance between adjacent keys on the piano keyboard) have size 1, and middle C is assigned the number 60, as it is in MIDI. 440 Hz is the standard frequency of 'concert A', which ...

  9. YouTube Music - Wikipedia

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    YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet's Google. The service is designed with an interface that allows users to simultaneously explore music audios and music videos from YouTube-based genres, playlists and recommendations.