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  2. Biomusicology - Wikipedia

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    Biomusicology is the study of music from a biological point of view. The term was coined by Nils L. Wallin in 1991 to encompass several branches of music psychology and musicology, including evolutionary musicology, neuromusicology, and comparative musicology. [1] Power of Music by Louis Gallait. A brother and sister resting before an old tomb.

  3. Klangfarbenmelodie - Wikipedia

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    Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element. Arnold Schoenberg originated the idea. It has become synonymous with the technique of fragmenting a melodic line between different timbres.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.

  5. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

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    The term cromatico (Italian) was occasionally used in the Medieval and Renaissance periods to refer to the coloration (Latin coloratio) of certain notes.The details vary widely by period and place, but generally the addition of a colour (often red) to an empty or filled head of a note, or the "colouring in" of an otherwise empty head of a note, shortens the duration of the note.

  6. Colored music notation - Wikipedia

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    Music portal; Colored music notation is a technique used to facilitate enhanced learning in young music students by adding visual color to written musical notation. It is based upon the concept that color can affect the observer in various ways, and combines this with standard learning of basic notation.

  7. Pythagorean tuning - Wikipedia

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    As Novalis put it, "The musical proportions seem to me to be particularly correct natural proportions." [3] Alternatively, it can be described as the tuning of the syntonic temperament [1] in which the generator is the ratio 3:2 (i.e., the untempered perfect fifth), which is ≈ 702 cents wide. The system dates back to Ancient Mesopotamia;. [4]

  8. Isorhythm - Wikipedia

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    Isorhythm (from the Greek for "the same rhythm") is a musical technique using a repeating rhythmic pattern, called a talea, in at least one voice part throughout a composition. Taleae are typically applied to one or more melodic patterns of pitches or colores , which may be of the same or a different length from the talea .

  9. Colorfulness - Wikipedia

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    The precise meanings of the terms vary by what other functions they are dependent on. Colorfulness is the "attribute of a visual perception according to which the perceived color of an area appears to be more or less chromatic (Any color that is absent of white, grey, or black) [clarification needed] ".