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Musical Terminology
Musical terms are words and phrases that are specific to reading, writing, and playing music.
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A strap around your neck.
No but really, it allows movement in the fingers by taking the weight of the instrument off your hands, and putting it on your neck. It is connected to a loop found on the back of the saxophone, and is often adjustable.
Is there an easy way to remember how and where musical terms are used like beats measures notes etc?
There's a story about a man who asks a musician he meet on the street, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall." The musician replied "Practice, man, practice!"
There are so many musical terms and conventions that it is impossible to remember them all. I've been playing for decades, and still see things I don't recognize. On the other hand, with all that experience, I've learned many things that I originally thought would be impossible to learn.
My best advice is to get a simple music dictionary and a simple theory book or two with indexes. When you run across something you don't know, look it up. You'll be surprised how much you'll learn and how quickly.
What accidental lowers a flat by one semitone?
To lower a note that's already flat, there is such a thing as a double-flat.
An appoggiatura is a type of musical ornament. It is like a 'leaning note' and is written as a grace note printed in small character, without a line through the stem, prefixed to a principal note and generally takes about half the time value of this note.
It is not to be confused with an acciaccatura, sometimes called a 'crushed note' which takes up very little time value of the principal note it is prefixed to. You can tell the difference between them as an acciaccatura has a line through the stem but is also written in small print as a grace note.
What does interval mean in musical terms?
Interval means only ONE Thing : The Distance BETWEEN notes or tones.
Like a scale degree. eg: tonic, supertonic, subdominant.....
What are the 2 lines on a quaver?
Quavers or smaller notes are grouped together by beams. If there are two parallel beams, the notes should be semi quavers. In usual practice, these are grouped in crotchets in simple time signatures.
What does the musical term fermata refer to?
The musical term "fermata" refers to how long a note is held. If there is a fermata above the note then the note is held for longer than the usual amount of time.
What is 'grand jeu et duo' when translated from French to English?
"Full (set of reed stops of the) organ and duet (registrations)" is an English equivalent of the French phrase grand jeu et duo. The pronunciation of the masculine singular phrase - which most famously links with composer, harpsichordist, and organist Louis-Claude Daquin (July 4, 1694 - June 15, 1772) - will be "graw zhuh ey dyoo-o" in French.
What is 'assez vif très rythmé' when translated from French to English?
"Rather lively (and) very rhythmical" is an English equivalent of the French phrase assez vif, très rythmé. The phrase famously refers to the second movement of the String Quartet in F Major by Joseph Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875-Dec. 28, 1937). The pronunciation will be "a-sey veef treh reet-mey" in Alsatian and Cevenol French.
Mezzo = middle, half; piano = soft; sub (subito) = suddenly
If they are NOT connected, then I think they are called "Voices", or voce (voh-chay).
What does descant mean in music terms?
the descant in choirs is a separate part. like a higher sung harmony or a lower sung harmony.
What does the term segmentation mean in reference to music compositions?
Part of music is the style and composition of it, if you want to find segmentationing its the...
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