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  2. Consecutive fifths - Wikipedia

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    The use of parallel fifths (or fourths) to refer to the sound of traditional Chinese or other kinds of Eastern music was once commonplace in film scores and songs. Since these passages are an obvious oversimplification and parody of the styles that they seek to evoke, this use of parallel fifths declined during the last half of the 20th century.

  3. Quartal and quintal harmony - Wikipedia

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    In the Middle Ages, simultaneous notes a fourth apart were heard as a consonance.During the common practice period (between about 1600 and 1900), this interval came to be heard either as a dissonance (when appearing as a suspension requiring resolution in the voice leading) or as a consonance (when the root of the chord appears in parts higher than the fifth of the chord).

  4. Oriental riff - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s, a couple of cartoons used a version of the tune specifically to accompany animated stereotypes of East Asians. [3] The notes used in the riff are part of a pentatonic scale and often harmonized with parallel open fourths, which makes the riff sound like East Asian music to the casual Western listener. [citation needed]

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A cord is the amount of wood that, when "ranked and well stowed" (arranged so pieces are aligned, parallel, touching and compact), occupies a volume of 128 cubic feet (3.62 m 3). [43] This corresponds to a well-stacked woodpile, 4 feet deep by 4 feet high by 8 feet wide (122 cm × 122 cm × 244 cm) , or any other arrangement of linear ...

  6. Circle of fifths - Wikipedia

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    It can be viewed in a counterclockwise direction as a circle of fourths. Harmonic progressions in Western music commonly use adjacent keys in this system, making it a useful reference for musical composition and harmony. [1] The top of the circle shows the key of C Major, with no sharps or flats. Proceeding clockwise, the pitches ascend by fifths.

  7. Fourways Farm - Wikipedia

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    Fourways Farm is a 1993 British science-themed children's stop-motion animated television series produced by Case Television and Dutch Education Television from the Netherlands, and aired on Channel 4 UK during Channel 4 Schools between 1993 and 1996 and regularly repeated until 2007.

  8. Perfect fourth - Wikipedia

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    The use of perfect fourths and fifths to sound in parallel with and to "thicken" the melodic line was prevalent in music prior to the European polyphonic music of the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, the fourth and fifth together were the concordantiae mediae (middle consonances) after the unison and octave, and before the thirds and sixths.

  9. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    These are images that can form two separate pictures. For example, the image shown forms a rabbit and a duck. Ambigram: A calligraphic design that has multiple or symmetric interpretations. Ames room illusion An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create a visual illusion. Ames trapezoid window illusion