music theory
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- added value
- process by which rhythmic irregularity is created through the addition of a note value or rest to a rhythmic figure.
- additive rhythm
- when the effect on the listener is one of unequal groupings of subdivisions being added together
- aleatory
- refers to music in which various elements of a composition are, in varying degress, determined by chance.
- alteration symbols
- indicate that a chord member is to be lowered or raised by a semitone
- atonal
- a term that refers to music that avoids reference to a tone center or centeres
- bitonality, bimodality or polytonality
- when two or more key centers are heard at the same time
- diatonic planing
- involves parallel movement of vertical sonorities whose structures are identical
- displaced accent
- a technique whereby the composer intentionally violates the normal metric accent pattern implied by the meter, shifting teh accent to a relatively weak beat
- impressionism
- the movement from traditional musical practices of the 18th and 19th century to using color, as expressed through harmony, instrumentation and the use of rhythm
- inversional equivalence
- a pc set and its mirror inversion are considered to be equivalent
- klangfarbenmelodie
- the deliberate juxtaposition of minute melodic fragments of contrasting timbre and register
- metric modulation
- method of changing tempo by equating a particular note value to another note value
- mixed meter
- the use of rapidle changing meter signatures
- musique concrete
- a technique wherein natural sounds- like a voice, instrument, or ticking of a clock - are recorded and then subjected to mondification by means of altered playback speed, reversed tape direction, fragmentation and splicing of the tape, creation of a tape
- normal order
- to arrange members of a pitch class set into an arbitrary ordering that is most compact
- outside interval
- the interval between the first and last note of an ordering
- pandiatonicism
- the attempt to equalize the seven tones of the diatonic scale so that no single pitch is heard as a tone center
- pentachord
- a set of five pitch classes
- pentatonic
- five note scale
- planing
- the use of chords in parallel motion
- pointillism
- the atomization of the melodic line
- polymeter
- the use of two or more meters at once
- polyrythm
- 2 or more contrasting rhythmic streams.
- quartal harmony
- a sonority deried from stacked 4ths
- quintal harmony
- a sonority derived from stacked 5ths
- sequencer
- a digital recorder that stores "sequences" of MIDI information rather than actual sounds
- serialization
- the process whereby such aspects of music as the subdivisions of the beat, dynamic level of individual pitches, and, in the case of instrumental music, choice of timbre were decided on by means of a predetermined rhythmic, dynamic, and/or timbral series.
- split-third chord
- the sonority by which both the major and minor quality are built on the same root
- sprechstimme
- a vocal effect which is a cross between singing and dramatic declamation
- tone cluster
- any collection fo three or more adjacent pitches in secundal relationship
- whole-tone chords
- vertical sonorities of whole-tone simultaneities