music-glossary: alteration

 
 1.12 alteration
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 ES: alteración, I: alterazione, F: altération, D: Alteration, NL:
 verhoging of verlaging, DK: Forandring, S: Förändring, FI: muunnettu.
 
    An alteration is the modification, raising or lowering, of a note’s
 pitch.  It is established by an accidental.
 
 
 See also
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    Seeaccidental.