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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  4. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    In a multi-section song form, such as AB or AABA, the first section. In 32-bar AABA form, the first A section is the first eight bars, and it contains the main melody. accordion. A free-reed instrument with two keyboards played with the hands, in which the sound is produced by pumping a bellows.

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    A two-part musical form Cadenza: falling: A florid solo at the end of a performance Cantata: sung: A piece for orchestra and singers Capriccio: caprice: A lively piece, free in form, often used to show musical skill Cavatina: small instrumental tone: A simple melody or song Coda: tail: The end of a piece Concerto: concert

  6. Transduction - Wikipedia

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    Transduction (trans-+ -duc-+ -tion, "leading through or across") can refer to: . Signal transduction, any process by which a biological cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another

  7. Lyrics - Wikipedia

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    The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, as a "librettist". Rap songs and grime contain rap lyrics (often with a variation of rhyming words) that are meant to be spoken rhythmically rather than sung. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit.

  8. Solresol - Wikipedia

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    In Solresol morphology, each word is divided into categories of either meaning or function, where longer words are generally more specific. Words are differentiated by three main characteristics: the initial syllable, word length, and whether it has a pair of repeated syllables.

  9. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval. The shifting of a melody , a harmonic progression or an entire musical piece to another key, while maintaining the same tone structure, i.e. the same succession of whole tones and ...