a combination of notes that sound dissonant to the ear
Discord
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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…
Dubbing
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putting all the elements of sound, dialogue, sound effects and music, onto one soundtrack
Dead room
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a room with very thick sound absorbers, causing a very dull sound with no reverberation
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
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…
Cacophony
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discordant or dissonant sound