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  2. Retrograde (music) - Wikipedia

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    Retrograde was not mentioned in theoretical treatises prior to 1500. [2] Nicola Vicentino (1555) discussed the difficulty in finding canonic imitation: "At times, the fugue or canon cannot be discovered through the systems mentioned above, either because of the impediment of rests, or because one part is going up while another is going down, or because one part starts at the beginning and the ...

  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. Crab canon - Wikipedia

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    An example of a crab canon. [1] Play ⓘ Requiescat Infini, an example of a crab canon (musical palindrome) composition.. A crab canon (also known by the Latin form of the name, canon cancrizans; as well as retrograde canon, canon per recte et retro or canon per rectus et inversus) [2] is an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward.

  5. Glossary of Schenkerian analysis - Wikipedia

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    Cover tone (German: Deckton) "A tone of the inner voice which appears above the foreground diminution". [ 3 ] It often results from an ascending register transfer or coupling, but "the main thread of melodic activity remains with the displaced voice while the voice that does the displacing functions as a 'cover'".

  6. List of backmasked messages - Wikipedia

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    "Julia, (pause) however (pause – the second thunder in normal direction), in the light and visions of the issues of Stanley, (pause) we changed our mind. (pause) We have decided to include a backward message. (pause – the first thunder is in normal direction) Stanley, (pause) for you, (pause) and for all the other book (short pause) burners ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Permutation (music) - Wikipedia

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    In traditional theory concepts like voicing and form include ordering; for example, many musical forms, such as rondo, are defined by the order of their sections. The permutations resulting from applying the inversion or retrograde operations are categorized as the prime form's inversions and retrogrades , respectively.

  9. Backward running - Wikipedia

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    A marathon participant running backwards. Backward running, also known as backwards running, running backwards, reverse running, retro running, or retro locomotion is the act of running in reverse, so that one travels in the direction one's back is facing rather than one's front.