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  2. Contortion - Wikipedia

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    Contortion acts often accompany acrobatics, circus acts, street performers and other live performing arts. Contortion acts are typically performed in front of a live audience. An act will showcase one or more artists performing a choreographed set of moves or poses, often to music, which require extreme flexibility. The physical flexibility ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A musician who plays any instrument with a keyboard. In Classical music, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and so on. 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.)

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. Contortion (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Contortion is an act of twisting and deforming. Contortion may also refer to: Contortion, a performance art; Contorsion, a concept in differential geometry described by the Contorsion tensor; an old term for complicated geological folds; Contortions may also refer to: James Chance and the Contortions, a musical group; Contort may additionally ...

  6. Music and mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Musical set theory uses the language of mathematical set theory in an elementary way to organize musical objects and describe their relationships. To analyze the structure of a piece of (typically atonal) music using musical set theory, one usually starts with a set of tones, which could form motives or chords.

  7. Contrapuntal motion - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, contrapuntal motion is the general movement of two or more melodic lines with respect to each other. [1] In traditional four-part harmony, it is important that lines maintain their independence, an effect which can be achieved by the judicious use of the four types of contrapuntal motion: parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion, and oblique motion.

  8. Musical syntax - Wikipedia

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    Concerning musical syntax these three aspects of richness in linguistic syntax as well as the abstractness should be found in music too, if one wants to claim that music has a comparable syntax. An annotation that has to be made concerns the fact that most of the studies dealing with musical syntax are confined to the consideration of Western ...

  9. Pythagorean comma - Wikipedia

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    The comma that musical temperaments often "temper" is the Pythagorean comma. [ 3 ] The Pythagorean comma can be also defined as the difference between a Pythagorean apotome and a Pythagorean limma [ 4 ] (i.e., between a chromatic and a diatonic semitone , as determined in Pythagorean tuning); the difference between 12 just perfect fifths and ...