Augmentation
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by JDWpianist (talk | contribs) at 20:28, May 2, 2009. It may differ significantly from current revision.
Augmentation, in reference to composing and music, relates to the technique of changing a passage of notes into longer note values (eg. double their value, or twice as long).
The opposite is called Diminution]