the use of music to cure or to bring physical or psychological relief
Music therapy
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Modulation
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Theory
Modulation changes the home key during a composition. Composers use modulation to: create contrast between sections increase…
Microtonal music
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music which makes use of intervals smaller than a half step
Mandola
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a large mandolin, bearing six to eight courses of strings, in use during the Renaissance; a large mandolin a fifth below a st…
Mandore
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a large mandolin, bearing six to eight courses of strings, in use during the Renaissance; a large mandolin a fifth below a st…
Apoyando
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Technique
Apoyando is commonly used to produce a stronger, projecting tone for melody lines. The plucking finger follows through and re…
Bitonal
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where two keys are used simultaneously, originating from the use of modes, common in pre baroque, folk style and more modern…
Bitonality
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where two keys are used simultaneously, originating from the use of modes, common in pre baroque, folk style and more modern…
Borrowed chord
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use of a chord in a key in which it is not diatonic, or the substitution of a chord from a different key into a work