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  2. Nonchord tone - Wikipedia

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    Changing tones (CT) are two successive nonharmonic tones. A chord tone steps to a nonchord tone which skips to another nonchord tone which leads by step to a chord tone, often the same chord tone. They may imply neighboring tones with a missing or implied note in the middle. Also called double neighboring tones or neighbor group. [4]

  3. Changing tones - Wikipedia

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    Changing tones. In music, changing tones (also called double neighboring tones and neighbor group) consists of two consecutive non-chord tones. [1] [2] The first moves in one direction by a step from a chord tone, then skips by a third in the opposite direction to another non-chord tone, and then finally resolves back to the original chord tone.

  4. Pedal point - Wikipedia

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    Pedal tone example. The repeated d in the first bar is the pedal point. [1] Play ⓘ. In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e. dissonant) harmony is sounded in the other parts.

  5. Interval (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. [1] An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or harmonic if it pertains to simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a chord.

  6. Non-chord tone - Wikipedia

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    Non-chord tone. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Redirect to: Nonchord tone; Retrieved from "https://en ...

  7. Vocal cords - Wikipedia

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    The male's vocal folds are between 1.75 cm and 2.5 cm (approx 0.75" to 1.0") in length, [3] while females' vocal folds are between 1.25 cm and 1.75 cm (approx 0.5" to 0.75") in length. The vocal folds of children are much shorter than those of adult males and females.

  8. Figured bass - Wikipedia

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    This instructs the chord-playing instrumentalist not to play any improvised chords for a period. The reason tasto solo had to be specified was because it was an accepted convention that if no figures were present in a section of otherwise figured bass line, the chord-playing performer would either assume that it was a root-position triad, or ...

  9. Sequence (music) - Wikipedia

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    The descending 5-6 sequences, also known as descending third sequences, consist of a series of chords whose root notes descend by a third each sequential repetition. [8] The basic pattern of a descending 5-6 sequence (with intervening chords removed) in C major. The pattern in the lower staff descends by a third each time in this sequence. Play ⓘ