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Close Structure    Less than an octave between soprano and tenor.
Counterpoint    Refers to the combining of relatively independent musical lines.
Direct (or hidden) 5th or 8ve    What results when the outer parts move in the same direction into a P5 or P8, with a leap in the soprano part.
Focal Point    The highest note of the melody.
Full Score    All or most of the parts of a score are notated on their own individual staves.
Harmonic Progression    The ways in which chords are selected.
Musical Score    A tool used by a composer, conductor, or analyst that shows all the parts of an ensemble arranged one above the other, enabling the experienced reader to "hear" what the composition will sound like.
Objectionable Parallels    What results when two parts that are separated by a P5 or a P8, or by their octave equivalents, move to new pitch classes that are separated by the same interval.
Open Structure    An octave or more between soprano and tenor.
Reduced Score    The score is notated at concert pitch on as few staves as possible.
Voice Leading    The ways in which chords are produced by the motions of individual musical lines.
Voicing    How the chord is to be distributed or spaced.







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