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In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. [1] An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or harmonic if it pertains to simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a chord. [2] [3]
Arabesque (classical music) An arabesque is a type of music which uses melodies to create the atmosphere of Arabic architecture. [1] The term and themes are borrowed from the art term arabesque, rather than stemming from Arabic music. [2] [3] [4] It is a highly ornamented style. The name has origins in the middle of the seventeenth century, it ...
Whistle register. The whistle register (also called the flute register or flageolet register) is the highest register of the human voice, lying above the modal register and falsetto register. This register has a specific physiological production that is different from the other registers and is so called because the timbre of the notes that are ...
An appoggiatura ( / əˌpɒdʒəˈtjʊərə / ə-POJ-ə-TURE-ə, Italian: [appoddʒaˈtuːra]; German: Vorschlag or Vorhalt; French: port de voix) is a musical ornament that consists of an added non-chord note in a melody that is resolved to the regular note of the chord. By putting the non-chord tone on a strong beat, (typically the first or ...
Turnaround (music) In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song. [1] The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically .
Tenuto is one of the earliest directions to appear in music notation. Notker of St. Gall (c. 840–912) discusses the use of the letter t in plainsong notation as meaning trahere vel tenere debere in one of his letters. The mark's meaning may also be affected when it appears in conjunction with other durational articulations.
Tremolo. In music, tremolo ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈtrɛːmolo] ), or tremolando ( [tremoˈlando] ), is a trembling effect. There are multiple types of tremolo: a rapid repetition of a note, an alternation between two different notes, or a variation in volume. Tremolos may be either measured, in which the exact rate of repetition or ...
In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. A scale ordered by increasing pitch is an ascending scale, and a scale ordered by decreasing pitch is a descending scale. Often, especially in the context of the common practice period, most or all of the melody and harmony of a musical work is built ...