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  2. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words; Assonance: matching vowel sounds; Consonance: matching consonant sounds; Holorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phrase; Spoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos)

  3. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Sonorous (Deep or ringing sound) sonoro With full sound sopra Above; directive to cross hands in a composition for piano, e.g. m.s. sopra: left hand over; opposite: sotto (below) sopra una corda or sull'istessa corda To be played on one string soprano The highest of the standard four voice ranges (bass, tenor, alto, soprano) sordina, sordine ...

  5. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]

  6. Phoneme - Wikipedia

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    A simplified procedure for determining whether two sounds represent the same or different phonemes. A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example is the English phoneme /k/, which occurs in words such as cat, kit, scat, skit.

  7. Found object (music) - Wikipedia

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    Found sounds [ edit ] The use of found objects in music takes one of two general forms: either objects are deliberately recorded, with their sound used directly or in processed form, or previous recordings are sampled for use as part of a work (the latter often being referred to simply as "found sound" or "sampling").

  8. Unique way of saying yes is less a word and more a ... - AOL

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    People in northern Sweden have a very unique way of saying "yes." The Local decided to check out the biggest city in northern Sweden, Umeå, and found out that the way they say "yes" is way ...

  9. Woodwind instrument - Wikipedia

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    Free reed aerophone instruments are likewise unique since sound is produced by 'free reeds' – small metal tongues arranged in rows within a metal or wooden frame. The airflow necessary for the instrument's sound is generated either by a player's breath (e.g. harmonica), or by bellows (e.g. accordion). [13] [14] [non-tertiary source needed]