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  2. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    The challenge the developers faced was the difficulty in offering useful suggestions for misspelled words. This requires reducing words to a skeletal form and applying pattern-matching algorithms. It might seem logical that where spell-checking dictionaries are concerned, "the bigger, the better," so that correct words are not marked as incorrect.

  3. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) Max (software), Pure Data: Philip Ewell: born 1966 Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007)

  4. Musical analysis - Wikipedia

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    Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517010-5. Tovey, Donald Francis. 1978 [1935–1939]. Essays in Musical Analysis, 6 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 912417. van Appeldorn, M.-J. 1966. "Stylistic Study of Claude Debussy's Opera Pelléas et Mélisande". Ph.D ...

  5. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...

  6. Susan McClary - Wikipedia

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    One of her best known works is Feminine Endings (1991). "Feminine ending" is a musical term once commonly used to denote a weak phrase ending or cadence.The work covers musical constructions of gender and sexuality, gendered aspects of traditional music theory, gendered sexuality in musical narrative, music as a gendered discourse, and discursive strategies of women musicians.

  7. Philosophy of music - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it". [1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics.

  8. Sentence (music) - Wikipedia

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    In Western music theory, the term sentence is analogous to the way the term is used in linguistics, in that it usually refers to a complete, somewhat self-contained statement. Usually a sentence refers to musical spans towards the lower end of the durational scale; i.e. melodic or thematic entities well below the level of movement or section ...

  9. Musical argument - Wikipedia

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    Traditional dialectal [a] music is representational: the musical form relates to an expressive content and is a means of creating a growing tension; this is what is usually called the musical argument.