a melody is written in an authentic mode when all, or almost all the notes lie above the final
Authentic mode
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Accentuare
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Italian
to mark with an accent; accessory notes, for example: the upper note in a trill, or the notes above and below the written not…
Borrowed division
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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…
Ledger line
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short lines drawn through, above or below the heads of notes that are written above or below the staff
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Close harmony
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a form of harmony where the harmonizing notes lie close to the melody
Disjunct
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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…
Seventh chord
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a chord consisting of a root note, the third above the root, the fifth above the root and the seventh above the root
Authentic Cadence
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