the horizontal dimension in music, where the vertical dimension arises from the harmony
Melody
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Close harmony
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a form of harmony where the harmonizing notes lie close to the melody
Passing note
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a note that is not part of the prevailing harmony but which, as the harmony changes, arrives at another note consonant with t…
Barber-shop harmony
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a popular, banal style of close harmony singing, originally all male, begun in the US in the late nineteenth century
Chord diagrams
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a form of musical notation using vertical and horizontal lines to represent the strings and frets on a guitar that uses numbe…
Chordal
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a form of music in which a single melody is accompanied by sets of chords, instead of a competing counter melody
Disjunct
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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…
Double counterpoint
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a method of counterpoint in which a second melody is added to an existing melody
Durchkomponiert
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German
applied to songs which use a new melody for each verse rather than a single melody throughout