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  2. Candidate key - Wikipedia

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    A candidate key is a minimal superkey, [1] i.e., a superkey that doesn't contain a smaller one. Therefore, a relation can have multiple candidate keys, each with a different number of attributes. [2] Specific candidate keys are sometimes called primary keys, secondary keys or alternate keys.

  3. Secondary chord - Wikipedia

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    A secondary chord is an analytical label for a specific harmonic device that is prevalent in the tonal idiom of Western music beginning in the common practice period: the use of diatonic functions for tonicization. Secondary chords are a type of altered or borrowed chord, chords that are not part of the music piece's key.

  4. Exposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    The term is most widely used [4] as an analytical convenience to denote a portion of a movement identified as an example of classical tonal sonata form.The exposition typically establishes the music's tonic key, and then modulates to, and ends in, the dominant. [5]

  5. Tonicization - Wikipedia

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    V of V in C, four-part harmony Secondary leading-tone chord: vii o 7 /V - V in C major. This may also be considered an altered IV 7 (FACE becomes F ♯ ACE ♭). [1]In music, tonicization is the treatment of a pitch other than the overall tonic (the "home note" of a piece) as a temporary tonic in a composition.

  6. Key (music) - Wikipedia

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    Key coloration is the difference between the intervals of different keys in a single non-equal tempered tuning, and the overall sound and "feel" of the key created by the tuning of its intervals. Historical irregular musical temperaments usually have the narrowest fifths between the diatonic notes ("naturals") producing purer thirds , and wider ...

  7. Chromaticism - Wikipedia

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    David Cope [8] describes three forms of chromaticism: modulation, borrowed chords from secondary keys, and chromatic chords such as augmented sixth chords. The chromatic expansion of tonality which characterizes much of nineteenth century music is illustrated in miniature by the substitution of a chromatic harmony for an expected diatonic harmony.

  8. Foreign key - Wikipedia

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    A foreign key is a set of attributes in a table that refers to the primary key of another table, linking these two tables. In the context of relational databases, a foreign key is subject to an inclusion dependency constraint that the tuples consisting of the foreign key attributes in one relation, R, must also exist in some other (not necessarily distinct) relation, S; furthermore that those ...

  9. Unique key - Wikipedia

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    Definition Simple A key made from only one attribute. Concatenated A key made from more than one attribute joined together as a single key, such as part or whole name with a system generated number appended as often used for E-mail addresses. Compound: A key made from at least two attributes or simple keys, only simple keys exist in a compound ...