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  2. Glossary of Schenkerian analysis - Wikipedia

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    The first tone of the Fundamental line. One of the three notes of the tonic triad, , or . See Schenkerian analysis:The fundamental line. Prolongation (German: Auskomponierung), Composing-out, Elaboration. The process in tonal music through which a pitch, interval, or consonant triad is able to govern spans of music when not physically sounding.

  3. The Mary Whitehouse Experience - Wikipedia

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    In the final episode, on being given a Cure album as a present, Ray cannot bring himself to sound sarcastic when thanking his friend and, bizarrely, starts speaking Flemish. Ray has quite a successful run of appearances on Flemish chat-shows, before the inevitable happens, and he begins speaking Flemish in a sarcastic tone.

  4. Primary tone - Wikipedia

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    Free Composition, Example 4. Fundamental line in relation to the tonic triad. The possible primary tones are shown as whole notes: , or . The minimal fundamental structure. Primary tone: . Play ⓘ. In Schenkerian analysis, the primary tone or head tone (German: Kopfton) is the starting tone of the fundamental line. The fundamental line itself ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Voice exchange - Wikipedia

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    Voice exchange is also used in Schenkerian analysis to refer to a pitch class exchange involving two voices across registers, one of which is usually the bass. In this sense, it is a common secondary structural feature found in the music of a wide variety of composers. [12]

  7. Sarcasm - Wikipedia

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    Sarcasm recognition and expression both require the development of understanding forms of language, especially if sarcasm occurs without a cue or signal (e.g., a sarcastic tone or rolling the eyes). Sarcasm is argued to be more sophisticated than lying because lying is expressed as early as the age of three, but sarcastic expressions take place ...

  8. Sensations of Tone - Wikipedia

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    Helmholtz resonator, p. 121, fig. 32. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (German Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik), commonly referred to as Sensations of Tone, is a foundational work on music acoustics and the perception of sound by Hermann von Helmholtz.

  9. Schillinger system - Wikipedia

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    The Schillinger system of musical composition, named after Joseph Schillinger (1895–1943) is a method of musical composition based on mathematical processes. It comprises theories of rhythm, harmony, melody, counterpoint, form and semantics, purporting to offer a systematic and non-genre approach to music analysis and composition; a descriptive rather than prescriptive grammar of music.