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Rebec:

Medieval instrument of rope rubbed with arch, predecessor of the violin.

Rhapsody:

Instrumental musical composition that develops or contains popular musics.

Scraper:

Type of idiófono, in which the sound produces to itself for the rubbing of a hard object on a rough surface, for example, a bottle of anise, a pumpkin with stretch marks, etc.

Strummed:

Skill of interpretation of the guitar that has happened from the popular musical language (especially the Flemish touch) to the current musician. It is a question of a way of touching all the ropes with all the fingers, which are opened like a fan.

Re:

The second note of the western diatonic scale. In Anglo-Saxon nomenclature, D.

Real, It Sets off:

Voice that establishes a real polyphonic counterpoint, which does not repeat the topic to the unison or to the eighth one.

Achievement:

In the skill of the low coding, it is called this way to the interpretation of the signs and numbers of the score to make to dream the chords and armonías.

Recital:

Concert of a soloist or joint soloist.

Recitative:

Style of singing of rhythm free and similar to the speech. It is inserted by the arias (more melodious and rhythmic) in the operas, where often it supports the plot plot. It is composed for only one voice, with the band or some instruments of support and to tack the musical phrases.

Recorder:

Peak flute. Aerófono formed by a cylindrical body of wood that possesses several top orifices and several low one for his fingering, with a gap in his top end for the blowing. One of the fundamental characteristics of this instrument resides in his fixed mouth, which is formed by a channel that allows the entry of blowing, which is thrown against a bevel that is what produces the vibration of the air.

Recurrence:

Also acquaintance like retrogradación, skill of counterpoint for which the sounds of the topic appear in inverse order of appearance, of the end at first. This skill proper of the Renaissance and the Gothic, would be recaptured by the school of the dodecaphonism, like one of the variants of the original series.

Drumroll:

Skill of interpretation of some drums and, especially, the box. It is a question of making to beat alternatively the ramrods at big speed, creating a continuous and expectant tone.

Redonda:

Value of duration of a note, equivalent to two half notes, four black women, etc. From the obsolescence of the brief one, it is the usually used value of major duration.

Reduction:

Trascripción and adaptation of a work for band or several instruments to a score simplified for one or two instruments, usually for piano.

Regal:

Privilege organ. Small portable organ of the last third of the XVth century, provided with pipes of tongue with a few metal resonators, and of penetrating nasal sound. It was during the XVIth century when his use began to spread, fundamentally in the center of Europe.

Registration:

Selection of the records for the execution of a work to the organ.

Record:

Classification of the sounds as his scale of frequencies. This way, we can differ, between serious sounds (lower frequencies) and sharp (higher frequencies).También it is possible to establish an average record, concerning the sounds of the speech I humanize. The division in records is subjective, although sometimes one associates the eighth correspondents. Also the different combinations are called records tímbricas of types of pipes of an organ, which are activated across a few special knobs in the console of the instrument. Other instruments exist with records, for example, key, the accordion, etc.

Relative:

Closeness relation between two tonalities, the major one and minor other one, which they share the same armor of key, that is to say, that they are formed by the same notes, but with a relation of different tonal gravity. For example, do the major and the minor are relative scales.

Resolution:

Term that implies the liberation of a harmonic tension. A disharmony resolves in a consonance. For example, if a major scale is intoned, it is said that the seventh note resolves on the eighth one (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si... do).

Resonance:

Acoustic phenomenon for which a vibrant body makes to vibrate' to other, reinforcing some partial harmonic sounds on others, and determining that way his stamp. For example, the soundbox of a guitar does that his sound is very different from the harp. In the resonance not only the hollows take part, but also the solid ones, therefore the form of his soundboxes turns out to be determinant in the instruments not only, but also the materials of that are made. The form and size of the larynx are determinant in our own voice stamp.