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• accepté (French: accepted; written on a bill of exchange)
• accepted
• acre(s)
• acreage
• acting
• actual
• address
• adjective
• advance(d)
• afternoon
• age
• akzeptiert (German: accepted; written on a bill of exchange)
• Music alto
• amateur
• anno (Latin: in the year)
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• answer
• ante (Latin: before)
• aqua (Latin: water)
• arrive(s)
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views updated May 17 2018

A. Note of the scale (6th degree of natural scale of C). Hence A♭, A♭♭, A♮, A♯, A♯♯, A major, A minor, etc. A is note commonly used for tuning instr. (orchs. tune to the ob. A). a′ = 440 vibrations per second, internationally accepted since 1939, although some orchs. still accept a′ = 435 and (in USA) a′ = 445.

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views updated May 29 2018

a. Abbreviation for accelerando found particularly in Elgar's scores.