Atonal

Atonality

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music that avoids a key centre but is not constructed on serial principles

Key Center

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Theory

A key center organizes harmonic tension and release around a tonic. Identifying key center helps performers shape phrasing, c…

Borrowed chord

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use of a chord in a key in which it is not diatonic, or the substitution of a chord from a different key into a work

Pandiatonicism

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a passage of music that uses only the tones of a single diatonic scale but does not rely on traditional harmonic progressions…

Allegro non troppo

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Italian

fast, but not too fast

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…

Flat Key Signatures

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See Table of Key Signatures

Instrumental

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describes music written for instruments but not for the voice