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Centricidade

English translation: Centricity

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Portuguese term or phrase:Centricidade
English translation:Centricity
Entered by: Suely Massarenti

01:13 Mar 21, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / Music Study
Portuguese term or phrase: Centricidade
Para o presente estudo, focalizaremos em apontamentos iniciais de Centricidade e Simetria como elementos de articulação melódica, harmônica e cadencial.
Suely Massarenti
Local time: 17:14
Centricity
Explanation:
http://openmusictheory.com/symmetryAndCentricity.html

Centricity in post-tonal music can be established in a variety of ways, often simply by emphasis. When a particular pitch-class is regularly the lowest, highest, loudest, or longest in a passage, that pitch-class becomes something like a tonic.
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Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 16:14
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Centricity


Explanation:
http://openmusictheory.com/symmetryAndCentricity.html

Centricity in post-tonal music can be established in a variety of ways, often simply by emphasis. When a particular pitch-class is regularly the lowest, highest, loudest, or longest in a passage, that pitch-class becomes something like a tonic.

Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 16:14
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
8 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Teresa :)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
15 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Cláudio :)
agree  Beatriz Souza
15 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Beatriz :)
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