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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    [Introduction to Musical Form] Musical analysis of form and structure [187] Felix Salzer: 1904–1986 Lev Abramovich Mazel' born 1907 O melodii (1952) Elements of music; among the founders of the Soviet/Russian music theory tradition [188] Ernst Oster: 1908–1977 English translation of Free Composition: Schenkerian analysis [189] George Perle ...

  4. Yamaha YM2413 - Wikipedia

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    the Yamaha SHS-10 shoulder keyboard in 1987, and the Yamaha PSS-140 and Yamaha SHS-200 in 1988; the Yamaha PSR-6 keyboard in 1988; several sound enhancement cartridges for MSX computers. It is also built into select MSX2 and MSX2+ systems, and all MSX Turbo R machines, as part of the MSX-Music standard; and [1] JTES Japanese teletext receivers. [2]

  5. Wikipedia : WikiProject Music theory

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    Expand coverage of music theory topics in Wikipedia. Establish a basic set of guidelines for music theory articles. Recruit Wikipedians into the music theory project. Scope The scope of this WikiProject includes: The mechanics of music and how music works. Elements of music such as melody, harmony, rhythm, pitch, texture, etc.

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of set classes - Wikipedia

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    The normal form is the smallest "slice of pie" (shaded) or most compact form, in this case: [0 1 1 1 2 T]. This is a list of set classes, by Forte number. [1] A set class (an abbreviation of pitch-class-set class) in music theory is an ascending collection of pitch classes, transposed to begin at zero.

  8. Generative theory of tonal music - Wikipedia

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    The generative theory of tonal music (GTTM) is a system of music analysis developed by music theorist Fred Lerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff. [1] First presented in their 1983 book of the same title, it constitutes a "formal description of the musical intuitions of a listener who is experienced in a musical idiom" [1] with the aim of illuminating the unique human capacity for musical ...

  9. Post-tonal music theory - Wikipedia

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    Post-tonal music theory is the set of theories put forward to describe music written outside of, or 'after', the tonal system of the common practice period.It revolves around the idea of 'emancipating dissonance', that is, freeing the structure of music from the familiar harmonic patterns that are derived from natural overtones.