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• Harmonics

  • Consonance

    • Harmony

    • Major & Minor

    • Major triad

    • Root

    • Third

    • Fifth

    • Minor triad

    • Inversion

    • Octave

  • Tonality

    • Tonic

    • Dominant

    • Subdominant

    • Cadence

    • Dissonance

    • Dominant seventh chord

    • Diminished seventh chord

    • Pseudo consonance

    • Harmonic formula

    • Key

  • Modulation

    • Key relationship

    • Laws of modulation

    • Secondary dominant

    • Pseudo resolution

    • Tonal analysis

    • Comma

    • Musical tuning

    • Pure tuning

    • Temperament

• Rhythmics

  • Bar

    • Harmony change

    • Bar notation

    • Bar line

  • Bar segmentation

    • Upbeat

    • Accentuation

    • Syncope

    • Hemiola

    • Lombard rhythm

    • Note values

    • Ligature

    • Tie

    • Time signature

    • Mensural notation

    • Figured bass

    • Basso continuo

    • Beat

    • Time unit

• Melodics

  • Melody

    • Scale

    • Scale degree

    • Pitch

    • Whole tone

    • Semitone

    • Interval

    • Leading tone

    • Diatonic scale

    • Pentatonics

    • Hemitonic

    • Anhemitonic

    • Slendro

    • Alteration

    • Chromaticism

    • Accidental

    • Natural sign

    • Circle of fifths

    • Enharmonic change

    • Altered chord

• Counterpoint

• Polyphony

• Voice

• Voice leading

• Parallel motion

• Parallel fourths

• Parallel fifths

• Similar motion

• Contrary motion

• Oblique motion

• Homophony

• Organ point

• Suspension

• Drone (Bourdon)

• Organum

• Hocket

• Cantus firmus

• Descant

• Motif

  • Inversion (melod.)

  • Sequence

  • Imitation

  • Subject

  • Theme

  • Stretto

• Tonal - Atonal - Modal

  • Music

    • Sound

    • Tone

    • Partial tone

    • Aesthetics

    • Going together

    • Tonal music

    • Atonal music

    • Modal music

    • Psalmody

    • Initium

    • Tenor

    • Recitation note

    • Repercussa

    • Mediatio

    • Finalis (Terminatio)

    • Square notation

    • Neumes