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  2. 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 ...

  3. Phonetic reversal - Wikipedia

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    Phonetic reversal is the process of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase. When the reversal is identical to the original, the word or phrase is called a phonetic palindrome. Phonetic reversal is not entirely identical to backmasking, which is specifically the reversal of recorded sound.

  4. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    When the second word was est or es, and possibly when the second word was et, a different form of elision sometimes occurred (prodelision): the vowel of the preceding word was retained, and the e was elided instead. Elision also occurred in Ancient Greek, but in that language, it is shown in writing by the vowel in question being replaced by an ...

  5. Retrograde (music) - Wikipedia

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    A melodic line that is the reverse of a previously or simultaneously stated line is said to be its retrograde or cancrizans (/ ˈ k æ ŋ k r ɪ ˌ z æ n z / [1] "walking backward", medieval Latin, from cancer "crab"). An exact retrograde includes both the pitches and rhythms in reverse.

  6. Ǝ - Wikipedia

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    Ǝ ǝ (turned E or reversed E) is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet used in African languages using the Pan-Nigerian alphabet. The minuscule is based on a rotated e and the capital form majuscule Ǝ , based on a reversed (mirrored) majuscule E.

  7. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and other Latin American music trill A rapid, usually unmeasured alternation between two harmonically adjacent notes (e.g. an interval of a semitone or a whole tone). A similar alternation using a wider interval is called a tremolo. triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3')

  8. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    çh is used in Manx for /tʃ/, such as in the word çhengey, meaning speech, as a distinction from ch which is used for /x/. čh is used in Romani and the Chechen Latin alphabet for /tʃʰ/. In the Ossete Latin alphabet, it was used for /tʃʼ/. ci is used in the Italian for /tʃ/ before the non-front vowel letters a, o, u .

  9. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.