* doit: jazz term referring to a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards. * dolce: sweetly * dolcissimo: very sweetly * dolente: sorrowfully, plaintively * doloroso: sorrowfully, plaintively * doppio movimento: twice as fast * double stop: the act of playing two notes...
Flat. Flat symbol is used to lower the pitch of a note by a half step. It is the opposite of the sharp symbol which raises the pitch. The same rules apply for black and white keys as described for the sharp symbol; Double flat. This term refers to a decrease in pitch by two semi...
A generic term used to designate the leader of a band. Although this term can be applied to any person that leads a band, it is most often associated with the leader of a military band, concert band symphonic band, or marching band. The bandmaster is generally the director or conductor ...
The Greeks were given to theoretical speculation about music; they had a system of notation, and they “practiced music,” as Socrates himself, in a vision, had been enjoined to do. But the Greek term from which the word music is derived was a generic one, referring to any art or ...
term, especially among keyboard artists. But as the singer and composerGiulio Caccinidemonstrated in the preface to his influential collectionLe nuove musiche(The New Music; 1602), singers, too, put their newly found freedom to good improvisational and ornamentational use. In short, after two ...
These references suggest the long-term relevance of an alternative and informed concept of a music applied to MTI. 3. Musical Interaction Research and Design: A Conceptual Framework with Five Enabling Dimensions The complex ecology of the Common Practice Period constituted a system of references, ...
staff, stave or pentagram: a framework of five lines on which musical notation is written such that the higher the note-sign on the staff the higher its pitch system: notation of a line of music including all the parts and voices involved, presented in a group of two or more staves whic...
(see Williams,2015, for a discussion). The term “imagery” ties INMI to a distinct tradition of research on mental imagery (Finke,1989; Kosslyn,1980), and distances it somewhat from the related area of involuntary memory research (Mace,2007) by emphasizing the active construction of musical...
Such variance in translations is evidence that the translators didn’t recognize the term as a concept that is important to Fleck's theory. No deep analyses of this concept exist in critiques of Fleck’s writings—only around a dozen texts dedicate a paragraph or two to it, and most of ...
In order to avoid other ambiguities, I generally use the terms "tone" and "pitch" in a relative way to describe a musical sound relative to other tones in a musical scale. When I intend the term pitch in an absolute sense, I use the specific term "absolute pitch." A musical scale is...