a term applied in music to describe a rising melodic line, that is one rising in pitch
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a term applied to describe a melodic line that first rises before falling to a cadence
Absolute pitch
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perfect pitch, a strong conscious or unconscious memory of musical pitch
Accidental
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sign for raising, lowering the pitch of a note or of canceling a previously applied sign, the sharp and flat signs in a key s…
Relative pitch
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an ability to identify one pitch with reference to another given pitch
Sharp
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a term applied to a note slightly above its expected pitch, a sign to show that a note should be raised one semitone in pitch…
String quartet
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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist
Descending
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a melodic line steadily falling in pitch
Syllabic
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a musical setting is syllabic when one and only one note is related to one syllable in the text