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What is a Picardy third?

What is a Picardy third? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism.
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