where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a semitone or tone different
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Difference tone
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a third note, with a frequency given by the difference in the frequencies of two other notes played together
Differential tone
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a third note, with a frequency given by the difference in the frequencies of two other notes played together
Dot
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placed above or below the notehead it indicates a staccato, placed immediately after a note it indicates that the note should…
Durchkomponiert
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German
applied to songs which use a new melody for each verse rather than a single melody throughout
Eighth note
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one eighth the time value of a whole note see Note Values
Conjunct
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in which a theme moves by no more than a tone or semitone from one note to the next
Accentuare
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Italian
to mark with an accent; accessory notes, for example: the upper note in a trill, or the notes above and below the written not…
Borrowed division
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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…