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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation Definition Banda: band: Small music ensemble used as a supplement to the orchestra in an opera Comprimario: with the first: Supporting role Concertino: little concert: Smaller, more virtuosic group of musicians in a concerto grosso: Convenienze: conveniences

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...

  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. Template:Infobox person/weight - Wikipedia

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    If a template uses {{Infobox person/weight|{{{weight}}}|kg-stlb=yes}}, then an article using that template with an input in kg will display two conversions: lb followed by st/lb (default is one conversion to lb):

  6. Template:Convert/list of units/mass - Wikipedia

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    1.0 long cwt (110 lb; 51 kg) short hundredweight: short cwt short cwt 1.0 short cwt (100 lb; 45 kg) long quarter: long qtr long qtr 1.0 long qtr (28 lb; 13 kg) short quarter: short qtr short qtr 1.0 short qtr (25 lb; 11 kg) stone: st st 14 lb used mostly in the British Commonwealth except Canada 1.0 st (14 lb; 6.4 kg) st kg. st kg lb; st lb

  7. Tenuto - Wikipedia

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    Tenuto is one of the earliest directions to appear in music notation. Notker of St. Gall (c. 840–912) discusses the use of the letter t in plainsong notation as meaning trahere vel tenere debere in one of his letters. The mark's meaning may also be affected when it appears in conjunction with other durational articulations.

  8. Musical cryptogram - Wikipedia

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    A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical symbols which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using musically translated versions of their own or their friends' names (or initials) as ...

  9. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval. The shifting of a melody , a harmonic progression or an entire musical piece to another key, while maintaining the same tone structure, i.e. the same succession of whole tones and ...