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Clef

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Clef"

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Word	Definition
treblenoun	(music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
keynoun	(countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
cleffnoun	(music) Obsolete form of clef. [(music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]]
c clefnoun	(music) A clef, 𝄡, indicating the position of one-lined C on a staff.
alto clefnoun	(music) A type of C-clef when placed on the third line of the staff in musical notation.
bass clefnoun	(music) A symbol showing that the second line from the top of the staff represents the F below middle C.
viola clefnoun	A musical symbol of the Western classical tradition, indicating the pitch of written notes.
neutral clefnoun	(music) A symbol used for pitchless instruments, such as some of those used for percussion instruments, for which each line can represent a specific percussion instrument within a set, such as in a drum set.
bassnoun	A low spectrum of sound tones.
notenoun	A symbol or annotation.
spacenoun	(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
sharp	Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
stavenoun	One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
musical scalenoun	A set of musical notes, typically ordered in pitch.
staffnoun	(plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.
semibreve restnoun	(music) A semibreve rest is a pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
systemnoun	A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
key signaturenoun	(music) An indication of the key of a composition, giving the number of sharps or flats in the corresponding scale.
accent marknoun	(linguistics, strictly) A diacritical mark or character used in writing to indicate the place of stress (spoken accent), or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked (such as long vowel versus short vowel).
stemnoun	The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.