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In music the term naked is said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.
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A naker was one of a pair of small kettledrums used in medieval music.
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In music the natural harmony is the harmony of the triad or common chord.
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In music a natural modulation is a transition from one key to its relative keys.
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In music, a natural scale is a scale which is written without flats or sharps.
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The nay is an Egyptian bamboo flute.
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In music, a Neapolitan sixth is a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic.
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In music the term neck describes the part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.
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New Age music is a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the USA in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesisers and acoustic instruments.
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New Country is a style of country music of the late 1980s characterised by down-to-earth, rather than sentimental, lyrics.
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New Wave was a style of rock music of the late 1970s, related to punk but more complex. Sometimes the term is used to also include punk.
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The ngoma is a type of East African drum.
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In music a nineteenth is an interval of two octaves and a fifth.
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In music a ninth is an interval containing an octave and a second. The term also describes a chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
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In music a nocturne is a night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's Midsummer-Night's Dream music.
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A nowel is a kind of hymn, or canticle. They are of mediaeval origin and a form of Christmas carol.
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A nonet is a composition for nine instruments, and sometimes, though rarely, for nine voices.
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In music a note is a character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
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In music, on a string instrument, the ridge at one end of the fingerboard, next to the peg box, which raises the strings from the surface of the fingerboard is called a nut. On some instruments, such as the ukulele, there is a movable nut, which raises the pitch of the entire instrument. The term ' nut' is also applied to the part of a bow which secures the horsehair and, by incorporating a screw mechanism, allows the tension of the hairs to be adjusted.
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