the raising or lowering of a note by means of an accidental- a double sharp, sharp, double flat, flat or natural sign
Alteration
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Accidental
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sign for raising, lowering the pitch of a note or of canceling a previously applied sign, the sharp and flat signs in a key s…
Accidentals
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Notation
Accidentals are symbols placed before notes: sharp ( ) raises a pitch flat ( ) lowers a pitch natural cancels previous altera…
Acciaccatura
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Italian
Grace note; crushed note, written with a diagonal line through the note hook or flag
Achtel
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German
a note one eighth the time value of a whole note see Note Values
Achtelnote
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German
a note one eighth the time value of a whole note see Note Values
Auxiliary Note
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a variety of passing note that returns back to the note immediately before it
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Double flat
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the sign that lowers a note by two semitones See double flat sign in Note Symbols