a term applied to any music written within the last forty or fifty years
Contemporary music
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Cancrizans
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Latin
a tune repeated so that the original order of notes is reversed the last note become the first, the penultimate note becomes…
Dyad
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a term applied to two notes, in the same way that a triad is a term applied to three notes
Tristan chord
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the half diminished seventh chord; a chord which was originally made up of the notes 'F', 'B', 'D sharp' and 'G sharp', altho…
Clos
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a cadence in which the last note sounds conclusive; that note, termed the 'final', which is the central note of the melody; t…
Chamber
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a prefix used to describe small scale musical activities, for example chamber symphony (a symphony for a small ensemble of pl…
Cancel
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natural sign, used to remove a previously applied accidental
Deploration
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French
compositions of the Medieval and Renaissance eras commonly written in the phrygian mode
Diatonic interval
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the interval between any two notes that both appear in the major or minor scales of the prevailing keynote