cambiata

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cambiata

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Borrowed from Italian cambiata.

noun 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.
Similar: changing note

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@misc{cambiata_2026,
  title = {cambiata},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cambiata},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}