a melody with notes played in differing octave registers
Octave displacement
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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…
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…
Broken octaves
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where alternate notes are played an octave apart
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…
Nuances
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a set of symbols added on the score to indicate the volume at which a note or a series of notes are to be played
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