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  2. Saudade - Wikipedia

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    Saudade [a] (English: / s aʊ ˈ d ɑː d ə /; [2] plural saudades) is a word in Portuguese and Galician denoting an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something.

  3. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    small instrumental tone: A simple melody or song Coda: tail: The end of a piece Concerto: concert: A work for one or more solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra Concertino: little concert: A short concerto; the solo instrument in a concerto Concerto grosso: big concert: A Baroque form of concerto, with a group of solo instruments Da capo ...

  4. Nostalgia - Wikipedia

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    Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. [2] The word nostalgia is a neoclassical compound derived from Greek, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), a Homeric word meaning "homecoming", and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain"; the word was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss ...

  5. Valence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The use of the term in psychology entered English with the translation from German ("Valenz") in 1935 of works of Kurt Lewin.The original German word suggests "binding", and is commonly used in a grammatical context to describe the ability of one word to semantically and syntactically link another, especially the ability of a verb to require a number of additional terms (e.g. subject and ...

  6. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    A synonym for "melody" (as in the terms "melodic line"). (See also bassline). line in. In an audio context, a "line in" is a jack found on mixers, guitar amplifiers, and recording devices. The "line in" jack allows a performer to add an input into a mixer, amplifier, or recording device. line out

  7. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

  8. Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia, Ultra Changed the Landscape ... - AOL

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    Frank Ocean may be one of the most popular musical acts of the 21st century, but back in 2010, the California-based, New Orleans-bred artist (formerly known as Christopher Breaux) was just getting ...

  9. Nostalgia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    "Nostalgia", a song in Yanni's Keys to Imagination (1986) and other albums "Nostalgia", a song by Gorguts from the 1998 album Obscura