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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    An ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip up or down, usually of a third, and proceeding in the opposite direction by a step, not to be confused with changing tone. canon or kanon (Ger.) A theme that is repeated and imitated and built upon by other instruments with a time delay, creating a layered effect; see Pachelbel's Canon.

  3. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Opposite-sex marriage coined after the advent of same-sex marriage. Organic farming, organic food Farming practiced without the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and so forth; and the food so produced. Over-the-board chess (also OTB chess) Chess played in real time using a physical chessboard, as opposed to computer chess or ...

  4. Educational music - Wikipedia

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    Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, lullaby from the European Union government funded, education project Lullabies of Europe: Languages from the Cradle [1]. Educational music, is a genre of music in which songs, lyrics, or other musical elements are used as a method of teaching and/or learning.

  5. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    A place where tickets are sold, in this example, for movies. A term to describe how well a film is doing. "The film is a hit at the box office." [citation needed] brass: A metal alloy (used for or in the manufacture of e.g. buttons, insignia and a family of musical instruments)

  6. Oxymoron - Wikipedia

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    Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").

  7. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  8. Musical literacy - Wikipedia

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    Musical literacy is the reading, writing, and playing of music, as well an understanding of cultural practice and historical and social contexts.. Music literacy and music education are frequently talked about relationally and causatively, however, they are not interchangeable terms, as complete musical literacy also concerns an understanding of the diverse practices involved in teaching music ...

  9. Orff Schulwerk - Wikipedia

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    The Orff Approach of music education uses very rudimentary forms of everyday activity for the purpose of music creation by music students. The Orff Approach is a "child-centered way of learning" music education that treats music as a basic system like language and believes that just as every child can learn language without formal instruction so can every child learn music by a gentle and ...