cambiata

[ kam-bee-ah-tuh ]

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noun

Music.

a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip, usually of a third above or below, and progressing by a step.

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< Italian: short for nota cambiata changed note; cambiata, feminine past participle of cambiare to change

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The already existing Fux, nota cambiata, is now dealt with in conjunction with Albrechtsberger.

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Having emerged from the school of the nota cambiata, he retains only the cambiata and becomes a member of several learned societies, &c.

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