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C major

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c-sharp majornoun(music) A key with the notes C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, and B♯, the key signature of which has seven sharps:
c minornoun(music) a minor key with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭/B
c-sharp minornoun(music) a minor key with the notes C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, B
high cnoun(music) The note exactly two octaves above middle C.
low cnoun(music) the C note exactly two octaves below middle C
bass cnoun(music) the C note exactly one octave below middle C
c-flatnoun(music) A tone one semitone lower than a C, denoted C♭.
c flatnounAlternative spelling of C-flat. [(music) A tone one semitone lower than a C, denoted C♭.]
c-clefnoun(music) a sign that indicates where middle C is on the staff with the center of the sign being middle C.
cagednounConfined in a cage.
c-notenoun(US, informal) A one-hundred dollar ($100) banknote.
cemb.noun(music, always capitalized, used in musical notation to indicate staffs to be played with harpsichord)
cantonounOne of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
english cadencenoun(music) A perfect cadence characteristic of English Renaissance music, involving a flattened seventh note played against the dominant chord (containing a regular raised seventh); conventionally, the flattened seventh is played as part of a suspension on the penultimate beat, before resolving downwards to the sixth and then fifth of the final chord, while the raised seventh is held before resolving upward to the first; however, more complex variations are also possible.
soprano recordernoun(music) A recorder whose lowest note is C₅ (or otherwise in the range of B♭₄ to D₅).
cymb.noun(music) Abbreviation of cymbals.
chalumeaunounThe lowest range of the clarinet, reaching up to written B♭ (B flat) above middle C.
crnt.noun(music) Abbreviation of cornet. [A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.]
cres.noun(in street addresses) Abbreviation of crescent. [The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.]
cellonounA large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.

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