Canon: A canon in music is a device in counterpoint in which a melody announced by one voice or instrument is imitated by one or more other voices or instruments, entering after the first has started, in the manner of…
Canon: A canon in music is a device in counterpoint in which a melody announced by one voice or instrument is imitated by one or more other voices or instruments, entering after the first has started, in the manner of…
Timbre: Anything other than pitch and loudness that distinguishes one sound from another. AKA: color, tone quality, texture It has been subdivided differently by different folks. For example: tone/noise, spectrum (harmonics), ADSR, changes in envelopes, prefix. Formant: “Harmonic augmented by…
Picardy Third: When a minor key song ends on a major chord. Parallel compression (aka New York compression) : Creating two copies of a signal, one heavily compressed, the other either dry or very lightly compressed and mixing them together.…
Synthesizer: A synthesizer is a machine or software program which is used to create “synthetic” sounds, or “synths”. These sounds can mimic “real” sounds (like a trumpet) or can be completely synthetic, as in a lot of electronic music. Sampler: A…
Gain: An adjustment to the input signal amplitude made before sending the signal through to the rest of the component. This helps to establish a strong enough signal for the rest of the component to manipulate properly. For example, the…
Agile: A musical direction meaning to play “swiftly” regarding tempo. In this context, it is pronounced “ah-jee’-lay”. Common Time: An alternative name for “four-four” (4/4) time. It can be indicated by the letter “C” in the time signature of sheet music. (The…
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