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Alteration:

Modification of a note and his sign. For example, the supported do is a semitone higher than the do, while my flat is a semitone lower than the note me. Double alterations exist also. The sign of the natural sign preceding to a note returns it to his natural sound.

High place:

Name with which in some countries it is named to the viola. Also it is used like synonymous of contralto (for example, saxo high place or contralto).

Height:

Similar visual to describe the frequency of the sound. The sharper is this one, the more high place is written in the stave.

Ambience:

Musical bogey of an instrument, from the lowest note to higher that it is capable of expressing.

Ambrosiano, Singing:

Liturgy of primitive Christian singings which compilation assumes to San Ambrosio, with melodies more flowery than those of the Gregorian singing.

Anacrusa:

Term of the classic Greek poetical metrics that applied to the music, is translated in the notes that they precede to a compass bar. It is a question of not accented sounds that end in other that yes it is. For example, in The Of Marseilles one, there are anacrúsicas the notes with which there are sung the first three syllables (A-llons, Enfants de la Patrie...).

Añafil:

Arab trumpet of the epoch of the Reconquest.

Walking:

Moderate tempo, to journey rhythm.

Andantino:

Tempo that can be a little more rapid or slower (according to experts' different opinions) that the Walking one, to which it is diminutive.

Angelica:

Name of several instruments: a variety of the spinet (or Renaissance key), a lute of many ropes or a set of crystal glasses that produce sounds on having rubbed.

Anticipation:

Emission of one or more sounds of a chord before the arrival of this one. In similar audio-visual like a movie in which the dialogues move forward a few moments to the visual change of scene, preparing ourselves for the continuation.

Antiphon:

Liturgical singing with two choirs that are alternated. The English term anthem sometimes badly translated like antiphon, refers to the motets and anthems that are sung in the Anglican temples and that are not part of the liturgy.

Extinguisher:

In English, dumper, mechanism of the piano activated by a pedal that avoids resonances on having stopped the pulsation of the keyboard.

Apoggíatura:

Appoggiatura, adornment of several brief and rapid notes that emphasize the final note that they support.

Arch:

Wooden pole on which manes and whose tension are tightened can be regulated. It serves to make to vibrate the ropes of some instruments.

Aria:

Vocal or instrumental piece of melodic character. Also, vocal parts of the operas.

Arioso:

Musical form of the opera, between the melodiosidad of the aria and the nature speaker of the recitative.

Key armor:

Set of alterations that determine a tonality and that are placed at the beginning of the stave, between the key and the indication of the compass. Every key armor (with a flat, two flats, etc., the supported one, two supported ones, etc., or without alterations)

Harmony:

In his widest sense, organic relation between the elements of everything. In music he adopts several meanings: the narrower one relative to the arranging of the material used (scales and chords), and other wider that it refers to the general linguistic plan of a work, therefore some of them incline for using the terms "system" for the first meaning and "structure", for the second one.

Harmonic:

Set of frequencies that start sounding jointly with a fundamental sound, giving place to an instrumental stamp or particular voice.