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  2. Gigue - Wikipedia

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    Gigue rhythm. [1]The gigue (/ ʒ iː ɡ / ZHEEG, French:) or giga (Italian: [ˈd͡ʒiːɡa]) is a lively baroque dance originating from the English jig.It was imported into France in the mid-17th century [2] and usually appears at the end of a suite.

  3. Tmesis - Wikipedia

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    In its strictest sense, tmesis (/ ˈ t m iː s ɪ s, t ə ˈ m iː-/; plural tmeses / ˈ t m iː s iː s, t ə ˈ m iː-/; Ancient Greek: τμῆσις tmēsis – "a cutting" < τέμνω temnō, "I cut") is a word compound that is divided into two parts, with another word infixed between the parts, thus constituting a separate word compound.

  4. Elision - Wikipedia

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    However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. [1] An example is the elision of word-final /t/ in English if it is preceded and followed by a consonant: "first light" is often pronounced "firs' light" ( /fɜrs laɪt/ ). [ 2 ]

  5. Category:Jazz terminology - Wikipedia

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  6. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-14-051363-9. Dana Gioia. The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader. Longman, 2005. ISBN 0-321-33194-X. Sharon Hamilton. Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises. W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-92837-3.

  7. Viseme - Wikipedia

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    A viseme is any of several speech sounds that look the same, for example when lip reading (Fisher 1968).. Visemes and phonemes do not share a one-to-one correspondence. Often several phonemes correspond to a single viseme, as several phonemes look the same on the face when produced, such as /k, ɡ, ŋ/; as well as /t, d, n, l/, and /p, b, m/).

  8. Quodlibet - Wikipedia

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    The quodlibet took on additional functions between the beginning and middle of the 19th century, when it became known as the potpourri and the musical switch.In these forms, the quodlibet would often feature anywhere from six to fifty or more consecutive "quotations"; the distinct incongruity between words and music served as a potent source of parody and entertainment. [4]

  9. Music - Wikipedia

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    In relation to the UK curriculum, in 2013 the term: "appropriate musical notations" was added to their list of elements and the title of the list was changed from the "elements of music" to the "inter-related dimensions of music". The inter-related dimensions of music are listed as: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure ...