a single vocal or instrumental part of a composition
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Plainte
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a slow song or instrumental composition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Note head
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the head, or round part of the note symbol as distinguished from the stem or any other part of the note See note head clef in…
A cappella
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Italian
music that is vocal or choral but without instrumental accompaniment
Bassus
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the lowest part in a polyphonic composition
Hocket
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a rhythmic device in two part music in which rests in one part alternately match notes in the other
Homophonic
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a musical composition for 2 or more parts with a single melody line, all other parts serving as accompaniments
Homophony
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a musical composition for 2 or more parts with a single melody line, all other parts serving as accompaniments
Manuscript
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a document bearing the notation of a composition, normally with the composer's handwritten notation of a composition