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60 relations: Adrianus Petit Coclico, Angra Mainyu, Augmentation (music), Augmented unison, Brilliant Corners, Canon (music), Christopher Simpson, Classical music, Color (medieval music), Counterpoint, Diego Ortiz, Diminished fourth, Diminished octave, Diminished second, Diminished seventh, Diminished seventh chord, Diminished sixth, Diminished third, Diminished triad, Division (music), Eighth note, Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Bassano, Giovanni Luca Conforti, Girolamo Dalla Casa, Half-time (music), Harmony, Heavy metal music, Heinrich Schenker, Hemiola, Interval (music), Jacob van Eyck, Jazz, Johann Andreas Herbst, Lucifer, Medieval Latin, Melody, Mensural notation, Michael Praetorius, Minor third, Motif (music), Music, Music theory, Musical note, Nonchord tone, Note value, Octatonic scale, Ornament (music), Perfect fifth, Pop music, ..., Quarter note, Riccardo Rognoni, Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego, Subject (music), Thelonious Monk, Time signature, Tritone, Tuplet, Variation (music), Western culture. Expand index (10 more) »
Adrianus Petit Coclico
Adrianus Petit Coclico (Flanders, 1499 – Copenhagen, after September 1562) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance.
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Angra Mainyu
Angra Mainyu (Avestan: Aŋra Mainiiu) is the Avestan-language name of Zoroastrianism's hypostasis of the "destructive spirit".
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Augmentation (music)
In Western music and music theory, augmentation (from Late Latin augmentare, to increase) is the lengthening of a note or interval.
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Augmented unison
In modern Western tonal music theory an augmented unison or augmented prime is the interval between two notes on the same staff position, or denoted by the same note letter, whose alterations cause them, in ordinary equal temperament, to be one semitone apart.
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Brilliant Corners
Brilliant Corners is a studio album by American jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
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Canon (music)
In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes).
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Christopher Simpson
Christopher Simpson (1602/1606–1669) was an English musician and composer, particularly associated with music for the viola da gamba.
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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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Color (medieval music)
In medieval music theory, the terms color and coloration are used in four distinct senses, two of which relate to the notation and structuring of note durations, the third to florid ornamentation, and the fourth to the quality of chromatic music.
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Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
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Diego Ortiz
Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 – c. 1570) was a Spanish composer and music theorist in service to the Spanish viceroy of Naples and later to Philip II of Spain.
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Diminished fourth
In classical music from Western culture, a diminished fourth is an interval produced by narrowing a perfect fourth by a chromatic semitone.
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Diminished octave
In classical music from Western culture, a diminished octave is an interval produced by narrowing a perfect octave by a chromatic semitone.
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Diminished second
In modern Western tonal music theory, a diminished second is the interval produced by narrowing a minor second by one chromatic semitone.
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Diminished seventh
In classical music from Western culture, a diminished seventh is an interval produced by narrowing a minor seventh by a chromatic semitone.
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Diminished seventh chord
The diminished seventh chord is commonly used in the harmony of both Western classical music and also in jazz and popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Diminished sixth
In classical music from Western culture, a diminished sixth is an interval produced by narrowing a minor sixth by a chromatic semitone.
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Diminished third
In classical music from Western culture, a diminished third is the musical interval produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone.
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Diminished triad
In music, a diminished triad, also known as the minor flatted fifth (m5), is a triad consisting of two minor thirds above the root — if built on C, a diminished triad would have a C, an E and a G. It resembles a minor triad with a lowered (flattened) fifth.
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Division (music)
In music, division refers to a type of ornamentation or variation common in 16th and 17th century music in which each note of a melodic line is "divided" into several shorter, faster-moving notes, often by a rhythmic repetition of a simple musical device such as the trill, turn or cambiata on each note in turn, or by the introduction of nonchord tones or arpeggio figures.
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Eighth note
'''Figure 1.''' An eighth note with stem facing up, an eighth note with stem facing down, and an eighth rest. '''Figure 2.''' Four eighth notes beamed together. An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet) and twice that of the sixteenth note (semiquaver), which amounts to one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), one eighth the duration of whole note (semibreve), one sixteenth the duration of a double whole note (breve), and one thirty-second the duration of a longa, hence the name.
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Francesco Rognoni Taeggio
Francesco Rognoni Taeggio (born in Milan second half of the 16th century – died after 1626) was an Italian composer.
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Giovanni Bassano
Giovanni Bassano (c. 1561 – 3 September 1617) was an Italian Venetian School composer and cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
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Giovanni Luca Conforti
Giovanni Luca Conforti (1560 – May 11, 1608) was an Italian composer and prominent falsetto singerNutter, David.
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Girolamo Dalla Casa
Girolamo Dalla Casa (also known as Hieronymo de Udene, died 1601) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist, and writer of the late Renaissance.
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Half-time (music)
In popular music, half-time is a type of meter and tempo that alters the rhythmic feel by essentially doubling the tempo resolution or metric division/level in comparison to common-time.
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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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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868, Wiśniowczyk – 14 January 1935, Vienna) was a music theorist, music critic, teacher, pianist, and composer, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis.
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Hemiola
In music, hemiola (also hemiolia) is the ratio 3:2.
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.
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Jacob van Eyck
Jonkheer Jacob van Eyck (c. 1590 – 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman and musician.
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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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Johann Andreas Herbst
Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588 – January 24, 1666) was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era.
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Lucifer
Lucifer is a name that, according to dictionaries of the English language, refers either to the Devil or to the planet Venus when appearing as the morning star.
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Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange, as the liturgical language of Chalcedonian Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church, and as a language of science, literature, law, and administration.
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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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Mensural notation
Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for European vocal polyphonic music from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600.
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Michael Praetorius
Michael Praetorius (probably 15 February 1571 – 15 February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.
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Minor third
In the music theory of Western culture, a minor third is a musical interval that encompasses three half steps, or semitones.
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Motif (music)
In music, a motif (also motive) is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity".
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities 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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Nonchord tone
A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note (i.e., a pitch) in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord set out by the harmonic framework.
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Note value
In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the texture or shape of the note head, the presence or absence of a stem, and the presence or absence of flags/beams/hooks/tails.
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Octatonic scale
An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale.
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Ornament (music)
In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece.
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Perfect fifth
In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Quarter note
A quarter note (American) or crotchet (British, from the sense 'hook') is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve).
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Riccardo Rognoni
Riccardo Rognoni or Richardo Rogniono (ca. 1550 – before 20 April 1620) is the earliest known member of the Rognoni family which started one of the earliest of all violin schools, based in Milan.
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Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego
Silvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego, also given as Sylvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego, Silvestro Ganasi dal Fontego, and Silvestro dal Fontego (1 January 1492 – 1565) was a Venetian musician and author of two important treatises on instrumental technique.
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Subject (music)
In music, a subject is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Time signature
The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.
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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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Tuplet
In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)".
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Variation (music)
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.
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Western culture
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.
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