the disposition of instruments in a musical work, which instruments plays what lines in the score
Instrumentation
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Arrange
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to set a work originally written for one instrument (or set of instruments) for another instrument or set of instruments
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…
Elements of a Musical Score
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See Elements of a Musical Score in Elements of a Musical Score
Open form
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a work in which the performer decides which order to play the material, where to start and where to stop
Polychoral
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a term used to describe the writing of music in which in a single work distinct choirs of voices and/or instruments are set v…
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…
Riddle canon
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a canon in which the composer has left it to the performer to choose at which point and at which pitch the following voice(s)…
Texture
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the way in which individual musical lines interact within a musical work