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1.13 alteration
ES: alteración, I: alterazione, F: altération, D: Alteration, NL: verhoging of verlaging, DK: Forandring, S: Förändring, FI: muunnettu.
An alteration is the modification, raising or lowering, of a note’s pitch. It is established by an accidental.