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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    High; often refers to a particular range of voice, higher than a tenor but lower than a soprano alzate sordini Lift or raise the mutes (i.e. remove mutes) am Steg (Ger.) At the bridge (i.e. playing a bowed string instrument near its bridge, which produces a heavier, stronger tone); see sul ponticello amabile Amiable, pleasant ambitus

  3. Tonality - Wikipedia

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    Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and / or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or the root of a triad with the greatest stability in a melody or in its harmony is called the tonic.

  4. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the fairly common assertion that "tonality" is a universal of all music may necessarily require an expansive definition of tonality. A pulse is sometimes taken as a universal, yet there exist solo vocal and instrumental genres with free and improvisational rhythm—no regular pulse [ 23 ] —one example being the alap section of ...

  5. Voicing (music) - Wikipedia

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    The highest voice is the first voice or voice 1. The second-highest voice is voice 2, etc. This nomenclature doesn't provide a term for more than one voice on the same pitch. A dropped voicing lowers one or more voices by an octave relative to the default state. Dropping the first voice is undefined—a drop-1 voicing would still have all ...

  6. Key (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music. Tonality (from "Tonic") or key: Music which uses the notes of a particular scale is said to be "in the key of" that scale or in the tonality of that scale. [1]

  7. Vocal range - Wikipedia

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    Vocal range plays such an important role in classifying singing voices into voice types that sometimes the two terms are confused with one another. A voice type is a particular kind of human singing voice perceived as having certain identifying qualities or characteristics; vocal range being only one of those characteristics.

  8. Category:Musical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Tag (barbershop music) Tarantella Napoletana; Tasto solo; Tempo; Tenor; Terp (music industry jargon) Territory band; Terzschritt; Tetrad (music) Text declamation; Thirty-two-bar form; Titling; Tone (musical instrument) Tonus peregrinus; Treble voice; Triad (music) Trumpet voluntary; Tutti

  9. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    Also voice artist, voice-over artist, and voice talent. An actor who performs using only their voice, i.e. through voice-overs. Voice acting is used especially in radio productions and animated films, where the actual providers of the voices of speaking characters are never seen, but is also commonly used for narration in live-action films ...