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Pitch Height
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Perceived highness of a note
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Pitch Chroma
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Pitch class / all c#s sound the same
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Interval
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Distance between two notes
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Timbre
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Particular quality that defines a sound
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Rhythm
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Specific temporal sequence of durations
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Meter
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Pattern of perceived accents and non-accents - strong and weak beats
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Tempo
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Rate of metric beat / TACTUS
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Dynamics
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Volume
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Scale-degree function
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How a note relates the scale or key context
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Dissonance
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When two or more notes sound simultaneously and create a sense of instability or harshness
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Registral Span
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Greater span - bigger/more open chordsmaller span - smaller/more condensed chord
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Density
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Very dense - a lot of pitches within a given spansparse - few pitches in a given span
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Parameters of Music
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Basic components of music
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Contour
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Rise and fall in a line of music
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Duration
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Length of notes
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