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interval noun abeyance, break, gap, halt, hiatus, interlude, intermission, interregnum, interruption, intervallum, intervening time, lapse, lull, pause, recess, respite, rest, spatium interiectum, spell, truce See also: abeyance, cessation, discontinuance, duration, hiatus, moratorium, pause, pendency, period, point, recess, remission, space, term, time INTERVAL. A space of time between two periods. When a person is unable to perform an act at any two given periods, but in the interval he has performed such act, as when a man is found to be insane in the months of January and March, and he enters into a contract or makes a will in the interval, in February, he will be presumed to have been insane at that time; and the onus will lie to show his sanity, on the person who affirms such act. See Lucid interval. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The first chapter advocates building students' listening skills by having them learn by ear from the beginning of piano study, developing skills in rhythmic and intervallic reading independently. 16) In this first song of the cycle; Mompou uses the piano with intervallic variation between the stanzas, always with slightly altered melodic and harmonic implications. Likewise, the left-hand B in measure 1 may appear to be an arbitrary leap if not for the awareness of the line to which B belongs (C-sharp-B-A-sharp) or of its intervallic relation to the right hand. |
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