Christian religious observance which takes place in the four weeks immediately preceding Christmas
Advent
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Preparation
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a harmonic device in which a note which causes a chord to be discordant is used in the previous chord within which it is conc…
Riddle canon
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a canon in which the composer has left it to the performer to choose at which point and at which pitch the following voice(s)…
Tuning peg
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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…
Tuning pin
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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…
Aeolian Harp
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a box across which lie strings of various thicknesses, stretched and tuned in unison, which when placed in a window and the s…
Anticipation
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a note played before a chord with which it is a concord, where it is discordant with the preceding chord
Attacca
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Italian
at once, attack, immediately; used at the end of a section, the term means go on immediately to the next section without a pa…
Borre
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English
a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat of four rather than the third of four as in the gavotte