D: 1. "Deutsch". D numbers are used instead of opus numbers to catalogue works by Schubert 2. The key of D.
Deceptive Cadence: A cadence where the dominant tonality resolves to any chord other than the tonic, most especially when it goes instead to the sixth.
Degree: A note of a scale, usually as identified by number. See second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and octave.
Delicato: Delicately.
Descant: 1. Soprano or tenor voice. 2. The melodic line or counterpoint accompanying an
existing melody. 3. The upper part of a polyphonic composition.
Descriptive
Music: Program
music.
Development: The elboration of melodic, thematic, or harmonic progressions in a
piece.
Diatonic: The notes that occur naturally in a scale, without being modified by accidentals other than in the key signature.
Di: Of, with.
Diminished: Lowered, or reduced. Generally refers to the lowering of a pitch chromatically by one half step;
ie., the term for an interval which has been decreased from the major
by two half steps and from the perfect by one half step
Diminished
Seventh Chord: A chord which contains a root, a minor third,
a diminished fifth, and a diminished seventh.
Diminished Triad: A chord which contains a root,
a minor third, and a diminished fifth.
Diminuition: The shortening of note values used in a theme to alter the melody without changing the pitches.
Dirge: A piece that is performed at a funeral or memorial service.
Dissonance: Notes that conflict, or sound outside of a chord in which they occur.
Such notes usually fall outside of the overtones which are being generated by the note or chord that is sounding.
Divertimento: An entertaining instrumental piece made up of several short movements.
Dodecaphonic: Twelve-tone music.
Dominant: A chord based on the fifth degree of the diatonic scale being used. A dominant usually resolves to the tonic.
Dorian
Mode: A medieval mode whose scale pattern is that of playing D to D on the white keys of a
piano.
Double
Concerto: A concerto for two solo instruments, and orchestra.
Double
Counterpoint: Invertible Counterpoint.
Double Flat: An accidental that
lowers the note it preceeds by one whole step.
Double Fugue: A fugue with two themes that occur at the same time.
Double Sharp: An accidental that
raises the note it preceeds by one whole step.
Doubly Augmented
Sixth Chord: An augmented sixth chord,
which contains a sharp second from the tonic.
Dramatic Soprano: A female singer with a slightly lower range than a Lyric Soprano.
Dramatic Tenor: A male singer with a slightly lower range than a Lyric Tenor.
Dynamics: The degrees of loudness or softness in a musical work, and the symbols
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