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The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition.The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded equally often in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note [3] through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch classes.
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites is the second extended play (EP) by American electronic music producer Skrillex.It was released exclusively through Beatport on October 22, 2010, through mau5trap and Big Beat Records, while being released on December 20 for digital download via other online retailers and on March 1, 2011, as a physical release.
Slur (music) An A natural minor scale under a slur. A slur is a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played without separation (that is, with legato articulation). A slur is denoted with a curved line generally placed over the notes if the stems point downward, and under them if the stems point upwards.
"The number of the notes that make up a scale as well as the quality of the intervals between successive notes of the scale help to give the music of a culture area its peculiar sound quality." [6] "The pitch distances or intervals among the notes of a scale tell us more about the sound of the music than does the mere number of tones." [7]
Shepard tone. A spectrogram of ascending Shepard tones on a linear frequency scale. A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale.
The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphony animated short subject with a comedy horror theme. It was produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. [1] In the film, [2] four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard —a modern film example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery.
Musical acoustics. Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] psychophysics, [ 4 ] organology [ 5 ] (classification of the instruments), physiology, [ 6 ] music theory, [ 7 ] ethnomusicology, [ 8 ] signal processing and instrument building, [ 9 ] among other disciplines.
Enigmatic scale. Enigmatic scale on C [1] (Play ⓘ) Descending enigmatic scale on C [2][3] is distinguished by F ♮, a lowered fourth degree. (Play ⓘ) The enigmatic scale (Italian: scala enigmatica) is an unusual musical scale, with elements of both major and minor scales, as well as the whole-tone scale. It was originally published in a ...