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a prefix indicating that the pitch of an instrument is usually one octave lower

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an ability to identify one pitch with reference to another given pitch

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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist

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perfect pitch, a strong conscious or unconscious memory of musical pitch

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to set a work originally written for one instrument (or set of instruments) for another instrument or set of instruments

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a plucked string instrument of the lute family, popular both as a solo and as an accompanying instrument to songs of the sixt…

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Malagasy string instrument with two adjacent faces, each with courses of strings, one with frets and one without, mounted on…

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a term applied to a note slightly above its expected pitch, a sign to show that a note should be raised one semitone in pitch…

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a musical setting is syllabic when one and only one note is related to one syllable in the text

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