intervals of a unison, octave, fourth, and fifth when they are exactly in tune and neither augmented nor diminished
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Perfect interval
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intervals of an octave, a fifth and a fourth
Perfectus
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Latin
intervals of a unison, octave, fourth, and fifth when they are exactly in tune and neither augmented nor diminished
Perfect unison
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alternative name for unison
Diabolus in musica
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the tritone, diminished fifth or augmented fourth
Reverse motion
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imitation in contrary motion, that is, the ascending intervals are changed to descending intervals and the descending interva…
Aeolian Harp
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a box across which lie strings of various thicknesses, stretched and tuned in unison, which when placed in a window and the s…
Augmented
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the lengthening of note values when recapitulating a fugal theme adding to it's dignity and weight; to increase a perfect or…
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…