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  2. 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 ...

  3. AP Music Theory - Wikipedia

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    The reason for this is to test AP Music Theory students in their ability to distinguish between simple and compound time signatures, as well as being able to read bass clef and treble clef. The second type of listening-based question is harmonic dictation. A four-part texture, utilizing SATB, is played four times.

  4. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Definition Lacuna: gap: A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello: little return

  5. Arsis and thesis - Wikipedia

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    Note grouping. A=Arsis, T=Thesis. [1] Play ⓘ Binary and ternary rhythms and meter are said to originate in human movement. [1] Inh.=Inhalation, Exh.=Exhalation. In music and prosody, arsis (/ ˈ ɑːr s ɪ s /; plural arses, / ˈ ɑːr s iː z /) and thesis (/ ˈ θ iː s ɪ s /; plural theses, / ˈ θ iː s iː z /) [2] are respectively the stronger and weaker parts of a musical measure or ...

  6. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  7. Formant - Wikipedia

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    Formant frequencies, in their acoustic definition, can be estimated from the frequency spectrum of the sound, using a spectrogram (in the figure) or a spectrum analyzer. However, to estimate the acoustic resonances of the vocal tract (i.e. the speech definition of formants) from a speech recording, one can use linear predictive coding .

  8. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music) - Wikipedia

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    This page contains naming conventions for music-related articles, covering both classical musical works and popular bands, albums and songs. The first step for disambiguating classical compositions is rather a reference to their composer, while popular music is rather disambiguated by a type qualifier.

  9. Stem (audio) - Wikipedia

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    In audio production, a stem is a discrete or grouped collection of audio sources mixed together, usually by one person, to be dealt with downstream as one unit. A single stem may be delivered in mono, stereo, or in multiple tracks for surround sound. [1] The beginnings of the process can be found in the production of early non-silent films.