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| Triple stop | A triple stop, in music terminology, is the act of playing three notes simultaneously on a melodic percussion instrument (like a marimba) or stringed instrument (for example, a violin or a guitar). |
| Tritone | The tritone (tri- or three and tone) is a musical interval that spans three whole tones. The tritone is the same as an augmented fourth, which in equal temperament is enharmonic to a diminished fifth. |
| Tritone substitution | In jazz music, a tritone substitution is the use in a chord progression of a dominant seventh chord (major/minor seventh chord) that is three whole steps (a tritone) away from the original dominant seventh chord. For example, Db7 would be the tritone substitution for G7. |
| Trout quintet | The trout quintet is the popular name for the piano quintet in A major by Franz Schubert. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is D. 667. |
| Tuning | In music, there are two common meanings for tuning: (1)Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice. (2)Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical basis. |
| Tuplet | In music a tuplet is any consecutive group of notes with an individual value more or less than half as long as the next larger note value. |
| Turn | In music, turn is a sequence of several notes next to each other in the scale. |
| Tutti | Tutti may refer to an orchestral passage in which every member of the orchestra is playing at once. |
| Twelve bar blues | The 12-bar blues is one of the most popular chord progressions in popular music. Most commonly, lyrics are in three lines, with the first two lines almost the same with slight differences in phrasing and interjections. |
| Twelve-tone technique | Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony , especially in British usage, twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any. |
| Twentieth century classical music | Twentieth century classical music begins with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Impressionism of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, American Vernacular music of Charles Ives and George Gershwin, and continues through the Neoclassicism of middle-period Igor Stravinsky, the twelve-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. |
