the sharpening or flattening of notes prescribed or permitted in modal music for the purpose of avoiding certain intervals, harmonies or whatever
Music ficta
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Musica falsa
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the sharpening or flattening of notes prescribed or permitted in modal music for the purpose of avoiding certain intervals, h…
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…
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…
Reverse motion
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imitation in contrary motion, that is, the ascending intervals are changed to descending intervals and the descending interva…
Neighbouring notes
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non harmonic notes that leave and return to the same chord note by a whole step or half step
Parallel chords
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a sequence of chords where the intervals remain unchanged as the notes of the chord changes
Parallel intervals
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the movement in two or more parts of the same intervals in the same direction
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…