Patsch

String quartet

Shared keywords

a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist

Syllabic

Shared keywords

a musical setting is syllabic when one and only one note is related to one syllable in the text

Parallel keys

Shared keywords

two keys, one major and one minor, having the same tonic

Proportion

Shared keywords

the relationship of one note's duration to one another

Cent

Shared keywords

logarithmic unit used when measuring the difference between two pitches in an equal tempered scale; one cent is one one hundr…

Jejy voatavo

Shared keywords

Malagasy string instrument with two adjacent faces, each with courses of strings, one with frets and one without, mounted on…

Staccatissimo

Shared keywords

Italian

an extreme form of staccato, often taken to indicate that one should shorten the note thus marked to one quarter of its writt…

Pastourelles

Shared keyword

a slow musical composition with more than one group of simple time units in each bar