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NATURAL - A musical symbol used to cancel a previous sharp or flat.

NEOCLASSICAL - A return by twentieth century composers to musical forms used during the Classical era.

NOCTURNE - French for "at night." A term which was first applied to lyric pieces of the 18th century. Nocturne's rose to popularity in the 19th century.

NON TROPPO - Not too much.

NOTATION - A system of expressing musical sounds with written symbols.

NOTE - A musical sound or written symbol.