music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

, a simultaneity is more than one complete

musical texture In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece. The texture is often described in regard to the density, or thickness, and range ...

occurring at the same time, rather than in succession. This first appeared in the music of

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, and is common in the music of

Conlon Nancarrow Samuel Conlon Nancarrow (; October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was an American- Mexican composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. Nancarrow is best remembered for his ''Studies for Player Piano'', being one of the first ...

and others.

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music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

, a pitch simultaneity is more than one pitch or

pitch class In music, a pitch class (p.c. or pc) is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart; for example, the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves. "The pitch class C stands for all possible Cs, in whatever octave positio ...

all of which occur at the same time, or simultaneously: "A

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note Note, notes, or NOTE may refer to: Music and entertainment * Musical note, a pitched sound (or a symbol for a sound) in music * ''Notes'' (album), a 1987 album by Paul Bley and Paul Motian * ''Notes'', a common (yet unofficial) shortened version ...

s sounded together." ''Simultaneity'' is a more specific and more general term than chord: many but not all chords or harmonies are simultaneities, though not all but some simultaneities are chords. For example, arpeggios are chords whose tones are not simultaneous. "The practice of harmony typically involves both simultaneity...and linearity."Hijleh, Mark (2012). ''Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures'', chapter 4, . Ashgate. . A simultaneity succession is a series of different groups of pitches or pitch classes, each of which is played at the same time as the other pitches of its group. Thus, a simultaneity succession is a succession of simultaneities. Similarly, ''simultaneity succession'' is a more general term than chord progression or

harmonic A harmonic is a wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the ''fundamental frequency'', the frequency of the original periodic signal, such as a sinusoidal wave. The original signal is also called the ''1st harmonic'', the ...

progression: most

chord progression In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords. Chord progressions are the foundation of harmony in Western musical tradition from the common practice ...

s or

progressions are then simultaneity successions, though not all simultaneity successions are harmonic progressions and not all simultaneities are chords.

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"Simultaneity in Music"
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Robert Iolini Robert John Iolini (born 1960) is an Australian-born composer, artist, filmmaker and radio producer. Early life and education Iolini completed a Master of Arts degree in Advanced Composition under the supervision of Professor Richard Vella in 1 ...

. Extract from a Master of Arts thesis entitled ''Simultaneity in Music''. Macquarie University. Sydney. Australia. February 1998. Harmony Musical texture Post-tonal music theory {{music-theory-stub

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