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- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... chromatic scale became the basis of modern music written using the twelve ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- In music, a melody—also tune, voice, or line—is a series of linear ... or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release ...8 KB (1,288 words) - 18:34, 19 December 2024
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 18:22, 2 April 2026
- foundation in both western and non-western music. This foundation is due to ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 18:54, 31 July 2025
- chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- a small natural horn with no valves. All pitch control is done by varying ... and cornet and, thus, allowed for diatonic pitch sets (scales). ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- used only for gakaku, or imperial court music. During the seventeenth century ... by a movable bridge which determines the pitch and the note. It is played ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 23:06, 3 March 2025
- Northern Italy engaged in the practice of pitch modification (tempering) ... adaptation (choice) was to allow for music to explore and express a ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 21:15, 13 September 2025
- The usage of the term is not unique to music but has application in medicine ... and logs were the next steps in the evolution of music. ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 05:11, 3 November 2025
- era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante ... Much of his chamber music follows models established by Joseph Haydn; ...6 KB (868 words) - 03:39, 27 March 2025
- Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435 – 1511) was a Flemish composer and music ... Tinctoris published many volumes of writings on music. While they ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point established by pitch relationships creating a set, in a given musical piece ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:12, 3 March 2025
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 08:21, 1 June 2025
- which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register ... In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- no half-tones, and the player can bend each pitch as much as a whole tone or ... made it popular in Western pop and jazz music. == Description == ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords, actual or implied, in music. It is sometimes referred to as the "vertical ...11 KB (1,831 words) - 05:19, 25 June 2024
- defined the beginning of the Baroque era in music. composition, for he wrote a great deal of music for ceremonial affairs, some ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Among the instrumental groups of definite pitch in the modern symphony ... popularity in the early days of recorded music, as their sound could more ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... traditional and "new age" kantele music are also available. ...6 KB (959 words) - 16:14, 28 February 2025
- in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent ... parts. However, none of his own writings on music mention the drum (nor the ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
