Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

Centricidade

English translation:

Centricity

Added to glossary by Suely Massarenti
Mar 21, 2018 01:13
6 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

Centricidade

Portuguese to English Art/Literary Music Music Study
Para o presente estudo, focalizaremos em apontamentos iniciais de Centricidade e Simetria como elementos de articulação melódica, harmônica e cadencial.
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Centricity

http://openmusictheory.com/symmetryAndCentricity.html

Centricity in post-tonal music can be established in a variety of ways, often simply by emphasis. When a particular pitch-class is regularly the lowest, highest, loudest, or longest in a passage, that pitch-class becomes something like a tonic.
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agree Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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agree Claudio Mazotti
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agree Beatriz Souza
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