all features of a language, including duration, pitch and stress
Prosody
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Relative pitch
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an ability to identify one pitch with reference to another given pitch
Absolute pitch
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perfect pitch, a strong conscious or unconscious memory of musical pitch
Properties of sound
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aspects of a sound, such as pitch, timbre, volume and duration, that give it a recognizable and definable tonal character
Pitch pipe
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device that is used to set any pitch of the chromatic scale
Accidentals
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Notation
Accidentals are symbols placed before notes: sharp ( ) raises a pitch flat ( ) lowers a pitch natural cancels previous altera…
Authentic mode
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a melody is written in an authentic mode when all, or almost all the notes lie above the final
Breathing
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a term applied to the performance of music on all instruments indicating all silences between sounds
Concert pitch
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the pitch to which an ensemble tunes, typically a'= 440Hz