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  2. Color (medieval music) - Wikipedia

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    In isorhythmic compositions, a composition technique characteristic of motets in the 14th and early 15th centuries, the term color refers to a sequence of repeated notes in the cantus firmus tenor of a composition. The color is typically divided into several taleae, sequences that have the same rhythmic sequence. [citation needed]

  3. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since several thousand blacks have been crossing the color line each year, the phenomenon known as "passing for white", millions of White Americans have recent African ancestors. A statistical analysis done in 1958 estimated that 21% of the white population had African ancestors.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In a jazz or popular music context, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, and so on. Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger.) "Tone-color melody", distribution of pitch or melody among instruments, varying timbre kräftig (Ger.) Strong

  5. Color Blindness, Whiteness, and Backlash - Wikipedia

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    Color Blindness is a more contemporary form of ahistorical racism that is epitomized by the phrase, "I do not see color." In essence the term refers to one who places racism squarely in the past. Whiteness is a vague racial-socio-economic category that has shifted definition

  6. White identity - Wikipedia

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    The study of white identity began in earnest as the field of modern whiteness studies became established in universities, and within academic research during the mid-1990s. The work of Ruth Frankenberg , among other significant concepts, considered the relationship between whiteness and white identity and attempted to intellectually ...

  7. Chromaticism - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, passus duriusculus is a Latin term which refers to chromatic line, often a bassline, whether descending or ascending. A line cliché is any chromatic line that moves against a stationary chord. [15] [16] There are many different types of line clichés—most often in the root, fifth or seventh—but there are two named line ...

  8. Diatonic and chromatic - Wikipedia

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    The term cromatico (Italian) was occasionally used in the Medieval and Renaissance periods to refer to the coloration (Latin coloratio) of certain notes.The details vary widely by period and place, but generally the addition of a colour (often red) to an empty or filled head of a note, or the "colouring in" of an otherwise empty head of a note, shortens the duration of the note.

  9. Natural Color System - Wikipedia

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    For the example color of S 2030-Y90R, the saturation is calculated as = / = / = / = NCS lightness (v) is a color's perceptual characteristic to contain more of the achromatic elementary colors black or white than another color. NCS lightness values varies from 0 for the elementary color black (S) to 1 for the elementary color white (W).