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  2. Voice leading - Wikipedia

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    Voice leading (or part writing) is the linear progression of individual melodic lines (voices or parts) and their interaction with one another to create harmonies, typically in accordance with the principles of common-practice harmony and counterpoint. [1]

  3. Voice crossing - Wikipedia

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    In music, voice crossing is the intersection of melodic lines in a composition, leaving a lower voice on a higher pitch than a higher voice (and vice versa). Because this can cause registral confusion and reduce the independence of the voices, [ 1 ] it is sometimes avoided in composition and pedagogical exercises.

  4. Prosody (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, prosody is the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung, or to set the music with regard to the ambiance of the lyrics. However, the relationship between syllables and melodic notes is just one dimension of musical prosody.

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The term Grand ballabile is used if nearly all participants (including principal characters) of a particular scene in a full-length work perform a large-scale dance. bar, or measure unit of music containing a number of beats as indicated by a time signature; also the vertical bar enclosing it barbaro

  6. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Simple time signatures are usually classified as those with an upper number of 2, 3, or 4. This example shows that each measure is the length of three quarter notes (crotchets). 3 4 is pronounced as "three-four" or "three-quarter time". Compound time signatures In a compound meter, there is an additional rhythmic grouping within each measure.

  7. List of pieces that use the whole-tone scale - Wikipedia

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    Eastman Studies in Music 70. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-322-5. Taruskin, Richard. 2009. Music in the Early Twentieth Century. [full citation needed] ISBN 9780195386301. Todd, R. Larry. 1981. "Liszt, Fantasy and Fugue for Organ on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam '". 19th-Century Music 4, no. 3 (Spring): 250 ...

  8. Double whole note - Wikipedia

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    In music, a double whole note (American), breve (British) or double note [1] [2] lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation. [2] The next longest notated note is the longa, which is double the length of the breve.

  9. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, the middle eight or bridge is the B section of a 32-bar form. [6] This section has a significantly different melody from the rest of the song and usually occurs after the second "A" section in the AABA song form. It is also called a middle eight because it happens in the middle of the song and the length is generally eight bars.