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Accidental (music)
In music, an accidental is a note of a pitch (or pitch class) that is not a member of the scale or mode indicated by the most recently applied key signature.
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Anhemitonic scale
Musicology commonly classifies scales as either hemitonic or anhemitonic.
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Arabic maqam
Arabic maqam (maqām, literally "place"; مقامات) is the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music, which is mainly melodic.
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Arabic music
Arabic music or Arab music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية – ALA-LC) is the music of the Arab people.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Binary number
In mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, which uses only two symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one).
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Blue note
In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note) is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch than standard.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Bohlen–Pierce scale
The Bohlen–Pierce scale (BP scale) is a musical tuning and scale, first described in the 1970s, that offers an alternative to the octave-repeating scales typical in Western and other musics, specifically the equal tempered diatonic scale.
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Byzantine music
Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire.
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C major
C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music.
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Chirality
Chirality is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science.
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Chord (music)
A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more (usually three or more) notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.
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Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.
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Classical music
Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.
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Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.
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Combination
In mathematics, a combination is a selection of items from a collection, such that (unlike permutations) the order of selection does not matter.
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Combinatorial species
In combinatorial mathematics, the theory of combinatorial species is an abstract, systematic method for analysing discrete structures in terms of generating functions.
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Common practice period
In the history of European art music, the common practice period is the era between the formation and the decline of the tonal system.
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Decimal
The decimal numeral system (also called base-ten positional numeral system, and occasionally called denary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.
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Degree (music)
In music theory, scale degree refers to the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic, the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.
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Diatonic scale
In western music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.
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Ditonic scale
A ditonic scale is a musical scale or mode with two notes per octave.
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Dominant (music)
In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale, called "dominant" because it is next in importance to the tonic, and a dominant chord is any chord built upon that pitch, using the notes of the same diatonic scale.
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Easley Blackwood Jr.
Easley Blackwood (born April 21, 1933) is an American professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
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Emil Richards
Emil Richards (born Emilio Joseph Radocchia; September 2, 1932) is an American vibraphonist and percussionist.
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Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.
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Erv Wilson
Ervin Wilson (June 11, 1928 – December 8, 2016) was a Mexican/American (dual citizen) music theorist.
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Experimental musical instrument
An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument.
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Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
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Gamelan
Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.
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Generic and specific intervals
In diatonic set theory a generic interval is the number of scale steps between notes of a collection or scale.
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Glossary of musical terminology
This is a list of musical terms that are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.
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Harmonic
A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.
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Harmonic series (music)
A harmonic series is the sequence of sounds—pure tones, represented by sinusoidal waves—in which the frequency of each sound is an integer multiple of the fundamental, the lowest frequency.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments.
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Harry Partch's 43-tone scale
The 43-tone scale is a just intonation scale with 43 pitches in each octave, invented and used by Harry Partch.
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Heptatonic scale
A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches per octave.
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Hexany
In music theory, the hexany is a six-note just intonation structure, with the notes placed on the vertices of an octahedron, equivalently the faces of a cube.
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Hexatonic scale
In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave.
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Hungarian minor scale
The Hungarian Minor scale,Christiansen, Mike (2000).
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian classical music
Indian classical music is a genre of South Asian music.
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Indochina
Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Julián Carrillo
Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer,Camp, Roderic Ai (1995).
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Key (music)
In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.
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Key signature
In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff.
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L'isle joyeuse
L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 (The Joyful Island) is an extended solo piano piece by Claude Debussy composed in 1904.
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Leading-tone
In music theory, a leading-note (also subsemitone, and called the leading-tone in the US) is a note or pitch which resolves or "leads" to a note one semitone higher or lower, being a lower and upper leading-tone, respectively.
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List of musical scales and modes
The following is a list of musical scales and modes.
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Major and minor
In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.
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Major scale
The major scale (or Ionian scale) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.
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Major second
In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone) is a second spanning two semitones.
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Mediant
In music, the mediant (Latin: to be in the middle) is the third scale degree of a diatonic scale, being the note halfway between the tonic and the dominant.
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Medieval music
Medieval music consists of songs, instrumental pieces, and liturgical music from about 500 A.D. to 1400.
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Melodic pattern
In music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Microtonal music
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".
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Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
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Minor scale
In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.
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Mode (music)
In the theory of Western music, a mode is a type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors.
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Modernism (music)
In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.
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Modes of limited transposition
Modes of limited transposition are musical modes or scales that fulfill specific criteria relating to their symmetry and the repetition of their interval groups.
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Modulation (music)
In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key (tonic, or tonal center) to another.
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Monotonic scale
A monotonic scale is a musical scale consisting of only one note in the octave.
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Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.
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Musical note
In music, a note is the pitch and duration of a sound, and also its representation in musical notation (♪, ♩).
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Octatonic scale
An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
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Overtone
An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.
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Palindrome
A palindrome is a word, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar.
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Pelog
Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Performance
Performance is completion of a task with application of knowledge, skills and abilities.
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Persian scale
The Persian scale is a musical scale occasionally found in guitar scale books, along other scales inspired by Middle Eastern music.
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Petrushka chord
The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music.
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Phrygian dominant scale
In music, the Phrygian dominant scale is the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale, the fifth being the dominant.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Pitch circularity
Pitch circularity is a fixed series of tones that appear to ascend or descend endlessly in pitch.
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Precomposition
In music, precompositional decisions are those decisions which a composer decides upon before or while beginning to create a composition.
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Prehistoric music
Prehistoric music (previously primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history.
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Quarter tone
A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone.
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Raga
A raga or raaga (IAST: rāga; also raag or ragam; literally "coloring, tingeing, dyeing") is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music.
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Renaissance music
Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era.
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Romantic music
Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Scientific pitch notation
Scientific pitch notation (or SPN, also known as American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN) and International Pitch Notation (IPN)) is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave.
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Semitone
A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
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Sequence (music)
In music, a sequence is the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice.
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Shepard tone
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
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Shruti (music)
Shruti or śruti, is a Sanskrit word, found in the Vedic texts of Hinduism where it means lyrics and "what is heard" in general.
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Slendro
Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic scale, the older of the two most common scales (laras) used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pélog.
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Song
A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.
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Sonido 13
Sonido 13 is a theory of microtonal music created by the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo around 1900Randel, Don Michael, ed.
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Staff (music)
In Western musical notation, the staff (US) or stave (UK) (plural for either: '''staves''') is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or, in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
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Subdominant
In music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth tonal degree of the diatonic scale.
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Submediant
In music, the submediant is the sixth scale degree of the diatonic scale, the 'lower mediant', halfway between the tonic and the subdominant or 'lower dominant'.
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Subtonic
In music, the subtonic is the scale degree below the tonic or, more specifically, the flattened seventh (VII): the lowered or minor seventh degree of the scale, a whole step below the tonic, as opposed to the leading tone, which is only a half step below the tonic.
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Supertonic
In music, the supertonic is the second degree or note of a diatonic scale, one step above the tonic.
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Svara
Swara (Hindi स्वर), also spelled swara, is a Sanskrit word that connotes a note in the successive steps of the octave.
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Tablature
Tablature (or tabulature, or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches.
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Tetratonic scale
A tetratonic scale is a musical scale or mode with four notes per octave.
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Tonic (music)
In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music and traditional music.
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Transposition (music)
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.
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Tritone
In music theory, the tritone is defined as a musical interval composed of three adjacent whole tones.
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Tritonic scale
A tritonic scale is a musical scale or mode with three notes per octave.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.
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Whole tone scale
In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole tone.
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Yuri Landman
Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch inventor of musical instruments and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a number of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn, and Laura-Mary Carter.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)
