a rhythmic device in two part music in which rests in one part alternately match notes in the other
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Hemiola
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rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Hemiolia
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rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Jejy voatavo
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Malagasy string instrument with two adjacent faces, each with courses of strings, one with frets and one without, mounted on…
Archlute
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a large lute popular both in Italy and England during the Renaissance with an elongated neck, fitted with two peg boxes, one…
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…
Mirror
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term used to describe a part appearing upside down, which if set directly below the original part it would appear like the ot…
Preparation
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a harmonic device in which a note which causes a chord to be discordant is used in the previous chord within which it is conc…
String quartet
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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist