preparation
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- noun
- /ˌprɛpəˈreɪʃən/
- Specialized
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preparación
- For many conducting classes, these two issues, conducting technique (communicating to an ensemble) and score preparation (understanding the composer's intent), are the principal foci of undergraduate conducting classes.
Examples
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The first purpose of this study was to use the thinking-out-loud technique in order to quantify the feedback characteristics of CTs employed in a teacher preparation program that had no standardized criteria for selection of CTs.
Academic text (2003) -
Your royal preparation makes us hear something.
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He had gotten himself stuck in the preparation to move, and had not.
Academic text (2001) -
While I am by no means an expert in kosher food preparation, I have seen a program devoted to the catering of a kosher wedding...
Blog text (2) -
Her room, like mine, is stacked with Advanced Placement preparation books and various novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jane Austen.
Blog text (14) -
The broader environmental health community can use the results to help determine the utility of the accreditation process and evaluate the preparation of program graduates for contributing to the profession.
Academic text (2004) -
All the baptized, whether monastic or lay, imagined the Christian life as an extended purification of the soul in preparation for its eschatological encounter with God.
Academic text (2008) -
Specifically, Kodály's emphasis on sound before sight, going from known to unknown, use of movable do solfège, use of various learning modes, and the importance of providing adequate preparation of pitch concepts can all be useful in our approach to preparing students to read pitch on the music staff.
Academic text (2012) -
In music theory, a preparation note resolves into a consonant chord, creating a satisfying transition.
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The concept of preparation is essential when discussing how dissonance functions within a musical context.
Antonyms
Compounds
A class that teaches breathing, relaxation, and simple exercises to use during birth
- Specialized
A set of shots from guns or artillery aimed at enemy positions before an attack
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Preparation comes from Latin parts pre- 'before' and parare 'to make ready', the same root as prepare. So, in music a preparation is a note placed earlier to 'get the ear ready' for a change in the harmony.