Musical Terminology

In recorded music, panning changes the direction of the sound as it is played back. In two-track stereo recordings, a particular sound can be panned to the left or right, or somewhere in the middle. With modern surround-sound technology a sound can panned left, right, center, rear left, rear right, or virtually anywhere there are speakers setup for playback.

Tune

falsetto : a form of vocal production used by male singers to extend their range upwards beyond its natural compass by limiting the vibration of the vocal cords.

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crescendo is one of the musical dynamics which means gradually becoming louder. It can be abbreviated as cresc. or as a symbol that is synonymous with that of a less than sign. It can also be described as the upward stairway slope of soft dynamics such as piano, pianissimo etc. . to louder dynamics like fortessimo.

It looks as if you'd be classed as a bass, perhaps with a shortened top. The average bass voice extends from E2 to E4. Exercise and training can probably extend your top somewhat.

A riff is an ostinato; a repeated chord progression, patter or melody, often played by rhythmic instruments. The riff is the base of the composition. They are most common ins funk, jazz, and rock music.

In music terminology, ritmo means rhythms. It is frequently used in jazz music. Con ritmo is to play a particular music work 'with rhythm', in other words no tempo alternations as in rubato.

In a suspension, one note of the previous chord (the preparation) is held over after a chord change before moving (the resolution). A 4-3 suspension is among the most common and familiar: the held-over note is the 4th degree of the new chord, and settles in to the 3rd degree.

For example:

F maj - FAC

C maj sus 4 - CFG

C maj - CEG

Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer (1653-1706). Today, Pachelbel is best known for the Canon in D, as well as the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.

There are 2 main types that I know of: time signature and key signature.

Time signature is at the start of a piece of music (although it can change in the piece) and tells you how many beats per bar (the top number) and what type of beats they are (the bottom number). i.e. 2/4.

The 2 on top means that there are 2 beats in a bar.

The 4 on the bottom tells you that they are crotchet beats. Other common numbers that you get on the bottom are 2 for minim beats and 8 for quaver beats. 8 can also be used for dotted crotchet beats if the top number can be divided by 3, i.e. 9/8 means 3 dotted crotchet beats per bar, 12/8 4 dotted crotchet beats, etc.

The other type of signature you get is key signature. The key signature looks like #s and bs at the start of the piece (called sharps and flats respectively). If there are none of these at the start or in the piece it is probably in C major or A minor. Sharps (#s) raise the pitch of a note by one semitone and flats (bs) lower the pitch of the note by one semitone. In a key signature (at the beginning) you get only flats or only sharps or none. The amount of sharps or flats (up to 7) determines the key you are playing in. Naturals cancel out the sharp or flat and take the note back to its normal pitch but are not used in key signatures. It looks a bit like this- ♮ - I hope that worked.

Order of sharps: F# C# G# D# A# E# B#

Order of flats: Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Cb Fb

I hope I haven't overcomplicated things for you. You could ask clarification if there's something you're not sure on.

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4/4 For The circle of Life

A flat is a symbol at the beginning of the staff which indicates the names of the lines and spaces where the note is intended to be a half step lower than the line would otherwise indicate. A sharp would be half a step higher than the line would indicate. For instance, if your register has a flat symbol on the line that indicates a B should be played it means that the composer intended the note to be 1/2 step lower than the pitch perfect B, in other words the composer wanted a B flat played, not a B.

when someone is flat in music it means they're singing in a lower pitch than they are supposed to

layering is when you add more and more layers of different instruments on top of each other, creating a more tonal, diminished sound.

Musical dictionaries are published that include many musical terms. Large dictionaries include thousands of terms.

It wouldn't be possible to get a truly complete list, any more than it would be possible to get a complete list of words, because many terms are no longer in use (but might be found in an old piece of music) and composers and arrangers continually invent new terms. Music is also written by composers who speak many different languages, so while common French, Italian, German, English and even Latin terms may be used by any arranger, new terms in different languages might be used.

The duration of eight quavers would make up that of a semibreve.

A capella refers to a choir or individual singing without any musical accompaniment.

composer: jose pepe merto

time signature:???

A piano etude usually is a shorter piece (a study) which would be no more than a few minutes long. They usually demand transcendental techniques and high levels of virtuosity. Frederic Chopin and Chales Valentin Alkan are two popular composers for etudes.

Nocturnes (night pieces) are one movement pieces featuring melodic lines with accompanied broken chords. Slower pace terms such as Lento, Larghetto are often used. K.S. Sorabji composed over 30 nocturnes for solo piano where Frederic Chopin composed 21.

A piano sonata is a cyclic work with (two), three or four (occasionally more) movements where the first movement (at least) follows the sonata form. A usaul sonata with three movements have fast, slow and fast movements, where a minuet or scherzo and trio is added between the second and third movements to make it a four movement composition. It was prominent in the entire classica period. L. v. Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas where W.A. Mozart composed 19 of them.

A piano ballade is a large scale one movement piece which is usually consists of lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities built on certain melodic themes. Frederic Chopin, Gabriel Faure and Franz Liszt were notable composers for ballades for piano solo.

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You have described a Whole Tone Scale.

There are six quavers in a dotted minim.