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Probert Encyclopaedia: Music (A) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Music (A) In music, A is the name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. |
 | | Air is a musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument. |
 | | In music, in a counterpoint and fugue, an augmentation is a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. |
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