* 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...
Musical expression, that element of musical performance which is something more than mere notes. Western music is notated on a system that specifies pitch and the relative lengths of notes. Factors such as speed or dynamics are usually indicated only by
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, ...
Fine(Italian: the end) a term placed where a piece or a section of a piece of music is to end used with an instruction such asal Codaor 'to coda', this sign marks the beginning of coda itself: a circle or oval with a cross inside it (corrected by Kim Krenzer) ...
(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...
Referring to notes, intervals, or key signatures having the same pitch but written in different notation. Each group of two notes is an example of Enharmonic Notes. Although they look like different pitches, the accidentals raise or lower them to the be the same. ...
This invention relates to musical instruments. The invention is directed more particularly to improved means for producing music from electrical pulsations or alternating currents of controlled pitch
I reserve the term "note" for the symbol on a staff which is used to specify a digital and the tone it activates. When a staff is used to record music in a particular system of notation, each musical tone is indicated by a note positioned on the staff. ...
This was a time of boom and bust for film compa- nies, unsure of which technologies to invest in, unfamiliar with the new 98 L. PORTER aesthetics of sound and uncertain whether talkies were a short-term fad. In May 1929 alone, eight companies were set up to produce talkies but only ...