Daily Shaarli
April 22, 2021
triplet - Three notes of equal length that are to be performed in the duration of
two notes of equal length.
time signature - A symbol placed at the left side of the staff indicating the meter
of the composition.
sixteenth note - A note having the time duration of one sixteenth of the time
duration of a whole note.
score - The entirety of the instrumental and vocal parts of a composition in
written form, placed together on a page in staves placed one below the other.
polyrhythm - The use of several patterns or meters simultaneously, a technique used
in 20th century compositions.
middle C - The name given to the note that has the pitch value of 261.63 Hz. It is
the note on the ledger line halfway between the bass and treble clef on the great
staff.
kick drum - A pedal operated bass drum usually found as part of a drum kit (drum
set) played by a single musician in a rock, jazz, or other popular style ensemble.
half note - A note that has half the duration of a whole note.
enharmonic - The phenomenon that two separate pitch notations stand for the same
sound. For example, the enharmonic spelling of F sharp is G flat. Both represent
the same pitch frequency.
cymbal - A percussion instrument made of a circular brass plate.
chords - The sounding of two or more notes (usually at least three) simultaneously.
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data.
variable - A variable is a named unit of data that is assigned a value.
articulation - Directions to a performer typically through symbols and icons on a musical score that indicate characteristics of the attack, duration, and decay.
terminal - The terminal is an interface that allows you to access the command line.
snippet - Alternatively referred to as a code snippet, a snippet is a small portion
of text that is part of a larger set of programming code.
ring theory - A ring in the mathematical sense is a set S together with two binary
operators + and *.
random - The term random refers to any collection of data or information with no
determined order, or is chosen in a way that is unknown beforehand.
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tonic - The note upon which a scale or key is based.
tonality - The principal of organization of a composition around a tonic based upon
a major or minor scale.
snare drum - A drum common in orchestral, band, and jazz music with two drum heads.
It is named after the "snares" or strings stretched across the lower drum head.
sequence (music) - A restatement of an idea or motif at a different pitch level
from the original.
rests - A symbol standing for a measured break in the sound with a defined
duration.
note - A notational symbol used to represent the duration of a sound and, when
placed on a music staff, to also indicate the pitch of the sound.
melody - A tune; a succession of tones comprised of mode, rhythm, and pitches so
arranged as to achieve musical shape, being perceived as a unity by the mind.
key - A specific scale or series of notes defining a particular tonality.
genre - Style or manner. In music, a unique category of composition with
similar style, form, emotion, or subject.
eighth note - A note having the time duration of one eighth of the time duration of
a whole note.
diatonic - Proceeding in the order of the octave based on five tones (steps) and
two semitones (half steps).
cadence - A stylized close in music which divides the music into periods or brings
it to a full conclusion.
walking bass - In jazz, a walking bass usually moves by steps played on bass or
piano, with each note usually having the duration of a quarter note.
unrolled loops - Loop unrolling is a loop transformation technique that helps to
optimize the execution time of a program. We basically remove or reduce iterations.
text editor - The term editor is commonly used to refer to a text editor, which is
a software program that allows users to create or manipulate plain text.
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sequence (math) - A sequence is an ordered list containing successive items, or
functions for performing certain actions.
reverse engineering - Reverse engineering involves finding out how various
functions in the code are built, what they do, and how each relates to and
interacts with other code functions.
pseudo code - Plain English that cannot be compiled or executed, but explains a
resolution to a problem.
plain text - Plain text, Plain-text, or Plaintext is any text, text file, or
document containing only text.
tone - The particular sound of an instrument or voice, as well as the performer's
particular coloring of that sound.
timbre - The quality of a sound; that component of a tone that causes different
instruments (for example a guitar and a violin) to sound different from each other
while they are both playing the same note.
seventh chord - A chord consisting of a root note, the third above the
fifth above the root, and the seventh above the root.
root - The tonic or fundamental note of a chord.
quarter note - A note having the time duration of one fourth of the time duration
of a whole note.
motif - A short tune or musical figure that characterizes and unifies a
composition.
measure - American term, equivalent to the English term "bar ", signifying the
smallest metrical divisions of a composition, containing a fixed number of beats ,
marked off by vertical lines on the staff.
interval - The distance between two pitches.
fifth interval - An interval of five diatonic degrees, counting the first and last
degree, for example, a fifth above C would be G.
drum kit - A drummer in a rock or jazz band usually plays a "kit" (sometimes
referred to as a drum set) or a specific group of untuned percussion instruments.
clef - A symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to denote which notes are
indicated by the lines and spaces.
bar - Lines drawn perpendicularly across the staff to divide it into measures. The
term also means measure in common usage, but the bar is strictly the line itself,
and not the measure it defines.
transcriber - The person who made the transcription.
Transcribing music means writing down what you hear when you listen to a song or piece.
text file - A text file is a computer file that only contains text and has no
special formatting.
SQL - Short for Structured Query Language, SQL, ... was developed by Dr. Edgar F.
Codd at the IBM research center in 1974. Today, SQL has become the de facto
standard database language.
search and replace - Alternatively referred to as Find and Replace or Replace is
the act of finding text and replacing the found text with an alternative.
query - With a database or search, a query is a field or option used to locate
information within a database or another location.
probability - How likely something is to happen.
prime number - A Prime Number is a whole number that cannot be made by multiplying
other whole numbers.
prime factors - "Prime Factorization" is finding which prime numbers multiply
together to make the original number.
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parallel arrays - Multiple arrays of the same size such that i-th element of each
array is closely related and all i-th elements together represent an object or
entity.