a form of harmony where the harmonizing notes lie close to the melody
Close harmony
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Chordal
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a form of music in which a single melody is accompanied by sets of chords, instead of a competing counter melody
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…
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…
Hemiola
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rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Hemiolia
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rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Authentic mode
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a melody is written in an authentic mode when all, or almost all the notes lie above the final
Barber-shop harmony
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a popular, banal style of close harmony singing, originally all male, begun in the US in the late nineteenth century
Melody
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the horizontal dimension in music, where the vertical dimension arises from the harmony