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74 relations: Accent (music), Alfred Mann (musicologist), Arch form, Ballet, Bar (music), Baroque dance, Beat (music), Binary form, Bridge (music), Cell (music), Chaconne, Coda (music), Common metre, Concerto, Concerto grosso, Contrast (music), Counterpoint, Csárdás, Da capo, Descant, Developing variation, Division (music), Exposition (music), Figure (music), Fugue, Galliard, Harmony, Introduction (music), Key (music), Letter (alphabet), List of musical genres by era, List of musical medleys, Malden, Massachusetts, Metre (music), Minuet, Motif (music), Movement (music), Music education, Musical composition, Musical development, Numerical digit, Opera, Oratorio, Ostinato, Oxford University Press, Passacaglia, Percy Scholes, Poetry, Polyphony, Potpourri (music), ..., Prime (symbol), Pulse (music), Recapitulation (music), Refrain, Repetition (music), Rhyme scheme, Richard Middleton (musicologist), Ritornello, Rondo, Sentence (music), Sonata, Song cycle, Song structure, Stewart Macpherson, Strophic form, Subject (music), Suite (music), Symphony, Ternary form, The Oxford Companion to Music, Thirty-two-bar form, Twelve-bar blues, Variation (music), Wiley-Blackwell. Expand index (24 more) »
Accent (music)
In music, an accent is an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.
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Alfred Mann (musicologist)
Alfred Mann (April 28, 1917 – September 21, 2006), was a writer in musical theory and Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
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Arch form
In music, arch form is a sectional structure for a piece of music based on repetition, in reverse order, of all or most musical sections such that the overall form is symmetric, most often around a central movement.
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Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.
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Bar (music)
In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines.
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Baroque dance
Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre and opera.
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Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
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Binary form
Binary form is a musical form in two related sections, both of which are usually repeated.
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Bridge (music)
In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section.
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Cell (music)
The 1957 Encyclopédie Laroussequoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990).
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Chaconne
A chaconne (chacona; ciaccona,; earlier English: chacony) is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention.
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Coda (music)
In music, a coda (Italian for "tail", plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.
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Common metre
Common metre or common measure — abbreviated as C. M. or CM — is a poetic metre consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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Concerto
A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is a musical composition usually composed in three movements, in which, usually, one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.
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Concerto grosso
The concerto grosso (Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno or concerto grosso).
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Contrast (music)
In music and musical form, contrast is the difference between parts or different instrument sounds.
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Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
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Csárdás
Csárdás, often seen as Czárdás, is a traditional Hungarian folk dance, the name derived from (old Hungarian term for tavern).
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Da capo
Da capo,, is an Italian musical term that means "from the beginning" (literally, "from the head").
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Descant
Descant, discant, or can refer to several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (cantus) above or removed from others.
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Developing variation
In music composition, developing variation is a formal technique in which the concepts of development and variation are united in that variations are produced through the development of existing material.
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Division (music)
In music, division refers to a type of ornamentation or variation common in 16th and 17th century music in which each note of a melodic line is "divided" into several shorter, faster-moving notes, often by a rhythmic repetition of a simple musical device such as the trill, turn or cambiata on each note in turn, or by the introduction of nonchord tones or arpeggio figures.
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Exposition (music)
In musical form and analysis, exposition is the initial presentation of the thematic material of a musical composition, movement, or section.
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Figure (music)
A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring.
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Fugue
In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition.
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Galliard
The galliard (gaillarde; gagliarda) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Introduction (music)
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics.
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Key (music)
In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.
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Letter (alphabet)
A letter is a grapheme (written character) in an alphabetic system of writing.
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List of musical genres by era
This is a list of musical forms and genres organized according to the eras of Classical music.
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List of musical medleys
In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping.
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Malden, Massachusetts
Malden is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Metre (music)
In music, metre (Am. meter) refers to the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.
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Minuet
A minuet (also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 4 time.
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Motif (music)
In music, a motif (also motive) is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity".
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Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.
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Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.
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Musical development
In classical music, musical development is a process by which a musical idea is communicated in the course of a composition.
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Numerical digit
A numerical digit is a single symbol (such as "2" or "5") used alone, or in combinations (such as "25"), to represent numbers (such as the number 25) according to some positional numeral systems.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.
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Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Passacaglia
The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.
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Percy Scholes
Percy Alfred Scholes M.A., Hon.D.Mus.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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Polyphony
In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture, where a texture is, generally speaking, the way that melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic aspects of a musical composition are combined to shape the overall sound and quality of the work.
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Potpourri (music)
Potpourri or Pot-Pourri (French, literally "putrid pot") is a kind of musical form structured as ABCDEF..., the same as medley or, sometimes, fantasia.
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Prime (symbol)
The prime symbol (′), double prime symbol (&Prime), triple prime symbol (‴), quadruple prime symbol (⁗) etc., are used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics and music.
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Pulse (music)
In music and music theory, the pulse consists of beatsWinold, Allen (1975).
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Recapitulation (music)
In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form.
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Refrain
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.
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Repetition (music)
Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated.
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Rhyme scheme
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
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Richard Middleton (musicologist)
Richard Middleton FBA is Emeritus Professor of Music at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Ritornello
A ritornello (Italian; "little return") is a recurring passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.
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Rondo
Rondo and its French part-equivalent, rondeau, are words that have been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form but also to a character type that is distinct from the form.
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Sentence (music)
In Western music theory, the term sentence is analogous to the way the term is used in linguistics, in that it usually refers to a complete, somewhat self-contained statement.
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Sonata
Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.
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Song cycle
A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.
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Song structure
Song structure or the musical forms of songs in traditional music and music are typically sectional, repeating forms used in songs, such as strophic form and is a part of the songwriting process.
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Stewart Macpherson
(Charles) Stewart Macpherson (29 March 1865 – 27 March 1941) was an English musician of Scottish descent.
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Strophic form
Strophic form, also called verse-repeating or chorus form, is the term applied to songs in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music.
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Subject (music)
In music, a subject is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.
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Suite (music)
A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces.
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Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.
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Ternary form
Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form where the first section (A) is repeated after the second section (B) ends.
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The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music is a music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press.
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Thirty-two-bar form
The thirty-two-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
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Twelve-bar blues
The twelve-bar blues or blues changes is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music.
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Variation (music)
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
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