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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In acoustics, the pitch or frequency of a musical tone.
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In fact these superficial repetitions serve to demonstrate Binchois's flexibility, since it is rare for two phrases to have exactly the same rhythmic or melodic contour, and consecutive phrases rarely end on the same pitch or note-value.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Beat-Note: A note of the denomination indicated by the measure-sign as the unit of note-value in a given measure.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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