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1) "Diminution" -- As to diminution dim·i·nu·tion
Pronunciation: "di-m&-'nü-sh&n also -'nyü-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-French diminutiun, from Medieval Latin diminution-, diminutio, alteration of Latin deminution-, deminutio, from deminuere
: the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : DECREASE Pronunciation Symbols
Diminution, from Italian diminuimento, is a musical term used to mean different things in the context of melodies and intervals or chords. A melody or series of notes is diminished if the lengths of the notes are shortened (this is opposed to augmentation, where the notes are lengthened). A melody originally consisting of four crotchets (quarter-notes) for example, is diminished if it later appears with four quavers (eighth-notes) instead. This technique is often used in contrapuntal music. It gives rise to the "canon in diminution", in which the notes in the following voice are shorter than those in the leading. An interval is diminished if it is narrowed by a chromatic semitone; a diminished chord is one which contains a diminished interval. Thus a diminished fifth, for example, is a chromatic semitone narrower than the perfect fifth, and a diminished triad is a minor triad whose fifth note has been lowered a chromatic semitone. The opposite is augmented. In Schenkerian analysis a diminution is a division, rather than a diminishing is a prolongation or expansion, "the process by which an interval formed by notes of longer value is expressed in notes of smaller value," see nonchord tone. Diminution is also a satirical technique. It reduces the size of something in order that it may be made to appear ludicrous, or in order to be closely examined. For example, if the Canadian Members of Parliament are portrayed as squabbling, spoiled little boys and girls, this would be diminution. A diminutive satire is Gulliver's Travels. ..."
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