Created by: abbeygrech
Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN)The highest normal male voice, apart from the alto (which uses falsetto) - so named because, when polyphonic music emerged in the late Middle Ages, its function was to hold the plainsong or other ...
Term literally meaning 'a sounding-together', formerly indicating (1)an overture, e.g. to an opera; (2) the instrumental section introducing, or between the verses of, a vocal work.
The lowest note of a chord when that chord is in what is regarded as its 'basic' position - e.g. for the chord of C major (C, E, G) the root is C, which is regarded as the basic note of the chord ...
A performing group of 4 instrumentalists or singers: where the instruments are unspecified (e.g. Amadeus Quartet) a string quartet is assumed - 2 violins, viola, cello; a piano quartet consists of ...
In harmony, a note which forms a discord with the chord with which it is heard, but which is 'justified' because it is melodically placed between two notes which are not discordant.
The art of writing suitably for an orchestra, band, etc.; or of scoring for these a work originally designed for another medium.
The writing down of music - whether by symbols (as in ordinary staff notation), by letters (as in Tonic Sol-Fa),or by a graphic representation of how an instrument should be figured to produce ...
By: abbeygrech