the way in which individual musical lines interact within a musical work
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Tuning peg
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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…
Tuning pin
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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…
Function
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the way in which chords, and individual tones within the chord, tend to imply movement toward another chord
Instrumentation
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the disposition of instruments in a musical work, which instruments plays what lines in the score
Open form
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a work in which the performer decides which order to play the material, where to start and where to stop
Preparation
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a harmonic device in which a note which causes a chord to be discordant is used in the previous chord within which it is conc…
Riddle canon
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a canon in which the composer has left it to the performer to choose at which point and at which pitch the following voice(s)…
Transcribe
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to rearrange music for instruments other than those for which the work was originally written