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1.11 alteration

ES: alteración, I: alterazione, F: altération, D: Alteration, NL: verhoging of verlaging, DK: ?, S: ?, FI: muunnettu.

An alteration is the modification, raising or lowering, of a note's pitch. It is established by an accidental.

See also

accidental.