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  2. Strain (music) - Wikipedia

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    A strain is often referred to as a "section" of a musical piece. Often, a strain is repeated for the sake of instilling the melody clearly. This is so in ragtime and marches. The Oxford English Dictionary lists this use of "strain" (n.2, III, 12) as part of the same noun more often used to denote an extreme of effort or pressure. OED derives it ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...

  4. String (music) - Wikipedia

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    On a stress vs. strain curve, there is a linear region where stress and strain are related called Young's modulus. A newer set of strings will often be in a region on the stress vs. strain curve past the Young's modulus called the plastic region. In the plastic region, plastic deformation occurs—deformation the material cannot recover from.

  5. Modal frame - Wikipedia

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    Shout-and-fall or tumbling strain is a modal frame, "very common in Afro-American-derived styles" and featured in songs such as "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "My Generation". [ 6 ] "Gesturally, it suggests 'affective outpouring', 'self-offering of the body', 'emptying and relaxation'."

  6. Strain - Wikipedia

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    Strain (biology), variants of biological organisms; Strain (chemistry), a chemical stress of a molecule; Strain (injury), an injury to a muscle; Strain (mechanics), a measure of deformation; Filtration, separating fluids from solids by passing through a filter; Percolation, of fluids through porous materials; Psychological stress

  7. Chopped and screwed - Wikipedia

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    Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a music genre and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and DJing. It was developed in the Houston , Texas, hip hop scene in the early 1990s by DJ Screw .

  8. Garage rock - Wikipedia

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    Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or ' 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock music that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.

  9. Melodic expectation - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Meyer's Emotion and Meaning in Music [38] is the classic text in music expectation. [citation needed] Meyer's starting point is the belief that the experience of music (as a listener) is derived from one's emotions and feelings about the music, which themselves are a function of relationships within the music itself. Meyer writes that ...