quarter note see Note Values
Crotchet
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Croche
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French
eighth note see Note Values
Croma
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Italian
eighth note see Note Values
Cut time
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quick duple time in which the half note is given one beat instead of two See cut time in Elements of a Musical Score see in T…
Clef
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symbol placed on the left of the stave which establishes the relationship between notes and their position on the staff lines…
Clos
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a cadence in which the last note sounds conclusive; that note, termed the 'final', which is the central note of the melody; t…
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…
Circle of fifths
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chain of intervals. each interval a fifth, after passing through every note of the scale returns to a note, several octaves d…
Carrée
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French
double whole note see Note Values