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  2. Consecutive fifths - Wikipedia

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    The use of parallel fifths (or fourths) to refer to the sound of traditional Chinese or other kinds of Eastern music was once commonplace in film scores and songs. Since these passages are an obvious oversimplification and parody of the styles that they seek to evoke, this use of parallel fifths declined during the last half of the 20th century.

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A cord is the amount of wood that, when "ranked and well stowed" (arranged so pieces are aligned, parallel, touching and compact), occupies a volume of 128 cubic feet (3.62 m 3). [43] This corresponds to a well-stacked woodpile, 4 feet deep by 4 feet high by 8 feet wide (122 cm × 122 cm × 244 cm) , or any other arrangement of linear ...

  4. Quartal and quintal harmony - Wikipedia

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    In the Middle Ages, simultaneous notes a fourth apart were heard as a consonance.During the common practice period (between about 1600 and 1900), this interval came to be heard either as a dissonance (when appearing as a suspension requiring resolution in the voice leading) or as a consonance (when the root of the chord appears in parts higher than the fifth of the chord).

  5. Circle of fifths - Wikipedia

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    It can be viewed in a counterclockwise direction as a circle of fourths. Harmonic progressions in Western music commonly use adjacent keys in this system, making it a useful reference for musical composition and harmony. [1] The top of the circle shows the key of C Major, with no sharps or flats. Proceeding clockwise, the pitches ascend by fifths.

  6. Perfect fourth - Wikipedia

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    The use of perfect fourths and fifths to sound in parallel with and to "thicken" the melodic line was prevalent in music prior to the European polyphonic music of the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, the fourth and fifth together were the concordantiae mediae (middle consonances) after the unison and octave, and before the thirds and sixths.

  7. Smoke on the Water - Wikipedia

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    It is a four-note blues scale melody in G minor, [9] harmonised in parallel fourths. The riff, played on a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar by Blackmore, is later joined by hi-hat and distorted organ, then the rest of the drums, then electric bass parts before the start of Ian Gillan 's vocal.

  8. Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

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    An example of a full wallpaper name in Hermann-Mauguin style (also called IUCr notation) is p31m, with four letters or digits; more usual is a shortened name like cmm or pg. For wallpaper groups the full notation begins with either p or c, for a primitive cell or a face-centred cell; these are explained below.

  9. Wiggle stereoscopy - Wikipedia

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    Wiggle stereoscopy is an example of stereoscopy in which left and right images of a stereogram are animated. This technique is also called wiggle 3-D, wobble 3-D, wigglegram, or sometimes Piku-Piku (Japanese for "twitching"). [1] The sense of depth from such images is due to parallax and to changes to the occlusion of background objects. In ...