cambiatas
cambiatas is the plural of cambiata.
Meaning of cambiata
Noun
cambiata (plural cambiatas)
- A pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic (and usually contrapuntal) setting of a melody where a note is skipped from (typically by an interval of a third) in one direction (either going up or down in pitch) followed by the note skipped to, and then by motion in the opposite direction, and where either the note skipped from is distinguished as a dissonance or the note skipped to is distinguished as a non-harmonic or non-chordal tone.
- Synonyms:
- changing note
Questions about cambiatas
- What is cambiatas the plural of?
- Cambiatas is the plural of cambiata.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cambiatas (page history and authors); cambiata (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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