a theory that arose during the Baroque period that associated certain musical methods and figures to arouse or portray particular emotions, for example, faster notes and major sonorities with happiness, minor keys and slower movement with sadness, loudness and harsh discordant harmonies with anger
Affections, doctrine of
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Accentuare
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to mark with an accent; accessory notes, for example: the upper note in a trill, or the notes above and below the written not…
Amen Cadence
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A chord progression where the subdominant chord is followed by the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, an plagal cadence…
Authentic Cadence
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A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, an authentic cadence…
Diatonic scale
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any scale of the major, natural minor, melodic minor or harmonic minor scales based on a particular key note
Minor Scale
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having the interval of a minor third between the first and third degrees of the scale See Table of Key Signatures See Table o…
Natural keys
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keys whose signature contains neither sharps nor flats, C major and A minor
Parallel keys
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two keys, one major and one minor, having the same tonic
Relative keys
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keys that share a common key signature, for example, C major and A minor