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  2. 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

  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. 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.

  5. PDF - Wikipedia

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    HTML Form format HTML 4.01 Specification since PDF 1.5; HTML 2.0 since 1.2 Forms Data Format (FDF) based on PDF, uses the same syntax and has essentially the same file structure, but is much simpler than PDF since the body of an FDF document consists of only one required object. Forms Data Format is defined in the PDF specification (since PDF 1.2).

  6. 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.

  7. Stem mixing and mastering - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue, music and sound effects, called "D-M-E", are brought to the final mix as separate stems. Using stem mixing, the dialogue can easily be replaced by a foreign-language version, the effects can easily be adapted to different mono, stereo and surround systems, and the music can be changed to fit the desired emotional response.

  8. List of open file formats - Wikipedia

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    Ogg – container for Vorbis, FLAC, Speex and Opus (audio formats) & Theora (a video format), each of which is an open format; Opus [2] – a lossy audio compression format developed by the IETF. Suitable for VoIP, videoconferencing (just audio), music transmission over the Internet and streaming applications (just audio). Speex – speech codec

  9. 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 ...