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228 relations: A cappella, A German Requiem (Brahms), ABC Tropical North, Ajax (play), Al Jazeera Media Network, Alto, Ambrose, American Choral Directors Association, Anúna, Ancient Greece, Anglican church music, Anthem, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, Art music, Audition, Bach cantata, Bach's church music in Latin, Ballet, Barbershop music, Barbershop quartet, Baritone, Baroque music, Bass (voice type), Basso continuo, Baton (conducting), BBC Singers, Benjamin Britten, Big band, Boy soprano, Boys' choir, Canadian Chamber Choir, Cantata, Carol (music), Catholic Church, Cecilian Movement, Chamber choir, Chamber Choir Ireland, Chandos Anthems, Choir (architecture), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choirboy, Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), Chorale, Choralis Constantinus, Christian music, Christoph Graupner, Church (building), Classical music, Claudio Monteverdi, ... Expand index (178 more) »
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A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
A German Requiem (Brahms)
A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op.
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ABC Tropical North
ABC Tropical North is an ABC Local Radio station based in Mackay and broadcasting to the surrounding region in Queensland.
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Ajax (play)
Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias (or; Αἴας, gen. Αἴαντος), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE.
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.
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Alto
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range.
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Ambrose
Ambrose of Milan (Aurelius Ambrosius; 4 April 397), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397.
American Choral Directors Association
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization with the stated purpose of promoting excellence in the field of choral music.
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Anúna
Anúna (stylized in all caps) is a vocal ensemble formed in Ireland in 1987 by Irish composer Michael McGlynn under the name An Uaithne.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Anglican church music
Anglican church music is music that is written for Christian worship in Anglican religious services, forming part of the liturgy.
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Anthem
An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.
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Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets.
Anton Webern
Anton Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
Art music
Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value.
Audition
An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer.
Bach cantata
The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas (German: Bachkantaten), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost.
Bach's church music in Latin
Most of Johann Sebastian Bach's extant church music in Latin—settings of (parts of) the Mass ordinary and of the Magnificat canticle—dates from his Leipzig period (1723–50).
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Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.
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Barbershop music
Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1930s–present), is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture.
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Barbershop quartet
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop style, characterized by four-part harmony without instrumental accompaniment, or a cappella.
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Baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.
Baroque music
Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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Basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.
Baton (conducting)
A baton is a stick that is used by conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an ensemble of musicians.
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BBC Singers
The BBC Singers is a professional British chamber choir, employed by the BBC.
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.
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Big band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Choir and big band are types of musical groups.
Boy soprano
A male soprano (British and especially North American English) or boy treble (only British English) is a young male singer with a voice in the soprano range, a range that is often still called the treble voice range (in North America too) no matter how old.
Boys' choir
A boys' choir is a one made up of boys who have yet to begin (or are just in the early stages of) puberty and so retain their high-pitched childhood voice. Choir and boys' choir are types of musical groups.
Canadian Chamber Choir
The Canadian Chamber Choir (Choeur de chambre du Canada)'s mission is to build community through choral singing.
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Cantata
A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
Carol (music)
A carol is a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with Christian church worship, and sometimes accompanied by a dance.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cecilian Movement
The Cecilian Movement for church music reform began in Germany in the second half of the 1800s as a reaction to the liberalization of the Enlightenment.
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Chamber choir
A chamber choir is a small or medium-sized choir of roughly 8 to 40 singers (occasionally called "chamber singers"), typically singing classical or religious music in a concert setting.
Chamber Choir Ireland
Chamber Choir Ireland, formerly known as the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, is the Republic of Ireland's national choral ensemble and national chamber choir, and the only regularly funded professional choir in the country.
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Chandos Anthems
Chandos Anthems, HWV 246–256, is the common name of a set of anthems written by George Frideric Handel.
Choir (architecture)
A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir.
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Choir of King's College, Cambridge
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is an English Anglican choir.
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Choirboy
A choirboy is a boy member of a choir, also known as a treble.
Choral Fantasy (Beethoven)
The Fantasy for piano, vocal soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80, usually called the Choral Fantasy, was composed in 1808 by then 38-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Chorale
A chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale.
Choralis Constantinus
The Choralis Constantinus is a collection of over 375 Gregorian chant-based polyphonic motets for the proper of the mass composed by Heinrich Isaac and his pupil Ludwig Senfl.
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Christian music
Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith.
Christoph Graupner
Christoph Graupner (10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.
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Church (building)
A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
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Clausula (music)
The clausula (Latin for "little close” or “little conclusion"; plural clausulae) was a newly composed section of discant ("note against note") inserted into a pre-existing setting of organum.
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Colonial history of the United States
The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War.
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Come and sing
A come and sing event is a temporary choir ("scratch choir") that rehearses and/or performs choral music, often within a single day. Choir and come and sing are choirs.
Concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.
Concertato
Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a genre or a style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo.
Concertmaster
The concertmaster (from the German Konzertmeister), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band).
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
Conductus
The conductus (plural: conducti) was a sacred Latin song in the Middle Ages, one whose poetry and music were newly composed.
Coronation anthem
A coronation anthem is a piece of choral music written to accompany the coronation of a monarch.
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Countertenor
A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Dale Warland Singers
The Dale Warland Singers (DWS) was a 40-voice professional chorus based in St. Paul, Minnesota, founded in 1972 by Dale Warland and disbanded in 2004.
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Delphic Hymns
The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments.
Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude (born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude,; – 9 May 1707) was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school.
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Early Music (journal)
Early Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in the study of early music.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Elijah (oratorio)
Elijah (Elias), Op. 70, MWV A 25, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn depicting events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Testament.
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Euripides
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.
Falsetto
Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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Figured bass
Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note.
Florentine Camerata
The Florentine Camerata, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi, were a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Gareth Malone
Gareth Edmund Malone (born 9 November 1975) is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing".
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
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Giacomo Carissimi
(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher.
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli (/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
Glossary of music terminology
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.
Greek chorus
A Greek chorus (chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene they appear in, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage.
Gregorian chant
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church.
Guillaume Du Fay
Guillaume Du Fay (also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397(?) – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish.
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Harmony
In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.
Harpsichord
A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.
Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.
Heinrich Isaac
Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450 – 26 March 1517) was a Netherlandish composer of south Netherlandish origin during the Renaissance era.
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century.
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.
Homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.
Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.
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Hymn tune
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung.
Isorhythm
Isorhythm (from the Greek for "the same rhythm") is a musical technique using a repeating rhythmic pattern, called a talea, in at least one voice part throughout a composition.
Israel in Egypt
Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.
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Johann Joseph Fux
Johann Joseph Fux (– 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.
John Dunstaple
John Dunstaple (or Dunstable; – 24 December 1453) was an English composer whose music helped inaugurate the transition from the medieval to the Renaissance periods.
John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
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Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin (born April 22, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist, and musicologist.
Josquin des Prez
Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez (– 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish.
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Journal of Research in Music Education
The Journal of Research in Music Education was established in 1953 under the editorship of Allen Britton.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor.
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L'enfance du Christ
L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ), Opus 25, is an oratorio by the French composer Hector Berlioz, based on the Holy Family's flight into Egypt (see Gospel of Matthew 2:13).
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Latin liturgical rites
Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, is a large family of liturgical rites and uses of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the largest particular church sui iuris of the Catholic Church, that originated in Europe where the Latin language once dominated.
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Latvian Radio Choir
The Latvian Radio Choir (Latvijas Radio koris) is the professional chamber choir of Latvian Radio which was founded in 1940 by the Latvian conductor Teodors Kalnins.
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Leipzig
Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.
List of Bach choirs
Bach Choir, Bach-Chor or Bachchor is the name of a number of organizations named after Johann Sebastian Bach, often performing his choral music exclusively, predominantly, or historically.
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Liturgical year
The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.
Liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
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Madrigal
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers.
Magnificat (Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243, is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat.
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Mass (music)
The Mass (missa) is a form of sacred musical composition that sets the invariable portions of the Christian Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism), known as the Mass.
Mass in G minor (Vaughan Williams)
The Mass in G minor is a choral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1921.
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Medieval music
Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries.
Men's chorus
A men's chorus or male voice choir (MVC) (German: Männerchor), is a choir consisting of men who sing with either a tenor or bass voice, and whose music is typically arranged into high and low tenors (1st and 2nd tenor), and high and low basses (1st and 2nd bass; or baritone and bass)—and shortened to the letters TTBB. Choir and men's chorus are choirs and types of musical groups.
Mesomedes
Mesomedes of Crete (Μεσομήδης ὁ Κρής) was a Greek citharode and lyric poet and composer of the early 2nd century AD in Roman Greece.
Messiah (Handel)
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel.
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Metre (music)
In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.
Michel Richard Delalande
Michel Richard Delalande (15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV.
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Military Wives
The Military Wives Choir is a registered charity and network of 75 choirs in British military bases across the UK and overseas, bringing women in the military community closer together through singing.
Missa solemnis (Beethoven)
The Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123, is a Solemn Mass composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819 to 1823.
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Monody
In music, monody refers to a solo vocal style distinguished by having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment.
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Moravian Church
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Jednota bratrská) founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.
Motet
In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present.
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Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
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Music Educators Journal
The Music Educators Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers in the field of education.
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Music of ancient Rome
The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
Musician
A musician is one who composes, conducts, or performs music.
Nänie
(the German form of Latin naenia, meaning "a funeral song" named after the Roman goddess Nenia) is a composition for SATB chorus and orchestra, Op. 82 by Johannes Brahms, which sets to music the poem "" by Friedrich Schiller.
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Nederlands Kamerkoor
The Netherlands Chamber Choir (Dutch Nederlands Kamerkoor) is a full-time and independent professional Dutch choir.
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Oboe
The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.
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Old Hall Manuscript
The Old Hall Manuscript (British Library, Add MS 57950) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for late Medieval English music.
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One voice per part
In music, one voice per part (OVPP) is the practice of performing choral music with a single voice on each vocal line.
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Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
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Oratorio
An oratorio is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. Choir and orchestra are types of musical groups.
Orestes (play)
Orestes (Ὀρέστης, Orestēs) (408 BCE) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.
Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.
Organum
Organum is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages.
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons (bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
Oxyrhynchus hymn
The Oxyrhynchus hymn (or P. Oxy. XV 1786) is the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notation.
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Papyrus
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.
Part song
A part song, part-song or partsong is a form of choral music that consists of a song to a secular or non-liturgical sacred text, written or arranged for several vocal parts.
Passions (Bach)
As Thomaskantor, Johann Sebastian Bach provided Passion music for Good Friday services in Leipzig.
Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.
Pit orchestra
A pit orchestra is a type of orchestra that accompanies performers in musicals, operas, ballets, and other shows involving music. Choir and pit orchestra are types of musical groups.
Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I (Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death.
Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
Proper (liturgy)
The proper (Latin: proprium) is a part of the Christian liturgy that varies according to the date, either representing an observance within the liturgical year, or of a particular saint or significant event.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.
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Rehearsal
A rehearsal is an activity in the performing arts that occurs as preparation for a performance in music, theatre, dance and related arts, such as opera, musical theatre and film production.
Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.
Renaissance music
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.
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Requiem (Berlioz)
The Grande Messe des morts (or Requiem), Op.
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Requiem (Mozart)
The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
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Requiem (Verdi)
The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi.
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era.
SATB
SATB is an initialism that describes the scoring of compositions for choirs or consorts of instruments.
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Schicksalslied
The Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), Op. 54, is an orchestrally accompanied choral setting of a poem written by Friedrich Hölderlin and is one of several major choral works written by Johannes Brahms.
Seconda pratica
Seconda pratica, Italian for "second practice", is the counterpart to prima pratica (or stile antico) and is sometimes referred to as stile moderno.
Secular music
Non-religious secular music and sacred music were the two main genres of Western music during the Middle Ages and Renaissance era.
Secularity
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.
Seikilos epitaph
The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, being dated between the first and second century AD.
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Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.
Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services
Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research related to sexual minorities and their social environment, including issues of homophobia and heterosexism and the personal, day-to-day experiences of people affected by these attitudes.
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Sheet music
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.
Show choir
A show choir (also known as a "swing choir") is a musical ensemble that combines choral singing with choreographed dance, often integrated into a narrative story. Choir and show choir are choirs.
Sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words.
Sign singing
Sign singing or Karaoke signing is singing using sign language.
Sophocles
Sophocles (497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.
Soprano
A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
Spem in alium
Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each.
SSAA choir
In music, SSAA is an initialism referring to a choir composed of two distinct Soprano (S) sections and two distinct Alto (A) sections. Choir and SSAA choir are choirs.
St. Olaf Choir
The St.
St. Paul (oratorio)
St.
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Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
Stile antico
Stile antico (literally "ancient style"), is a term describing a manner of musical composition from the sixteenth century onwards that was historically conscious, as opposed to stile moderno, which adhered to more modern trends.
Surat Kecil untuk Tuhan (2017 film)
Surat Kecil untuk Tuhan ("A Diary of Letters to God" or "A Note to God") is a 2017 Indonesian drama film produced by Falcon Pictures.
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Swedish Radio Choir
The Swedish Radio Choir is a professional choir.
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Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
The Symphony No.
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Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.
Te Deum (Berlioz)
The Te Deum (Op. 22 / H.118) by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was completed in 1849.
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Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
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Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
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Terence
Publius Terentius Afer (–), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright during the Roman Republic.
The Choir of Hard Knocks
The Choir of Hard Knocks is an Australian choir.
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The Creation (Haydn)
The Creation (Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written in 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXI:2), and considered by many to be one of his masterpieces.
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The Jakarta Post
The Jakarta Post is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The Seasons (Haydn)
The Seasons (German: Die Jahreszeiten, Hob. XXI:3) is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801.
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The Sixteen
The Sixteen (previously known as the Symphony of Harmony and Invention) are a United Kingdom-based choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers, they started as an unnamed group of sixteen friends in 1977, giving their first billed concert in 1979.
Theatre of ancient Greece
A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC.
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Thomas J. Mathiesen
Thomas James Mathiesen (born April 30, 1947) is an American musicologist, whose research focuses on Ancient music and the music theory of ancient and early periods.
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Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis (23 November 1585; also Tallys or Talles) was an English composer of High Renaissance music.
Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
Unison
In music, unison is two or more musical parts that sound either the same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at the same time.
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Update: Applications of Research in Music Education
UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of music education.
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Venetian polychoral style
The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate choirs singing in alternation.
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Venetian School (music)
In music history, the Venetian School was the body and work of composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610, many working in the Venetian polychoral style.
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Vespro della Beata Vergine
Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), SV 206, is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs, and orchestra.
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Violin family
The violin family of musical instruments was developed in Italy in the 16th century.
Violone
The term violone (literally "large viol", -one being the augmentative suffix) can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family.
Virtual choir
A virtual choir, online choir or home choir is a choir whose members do not meet physically but who work together online from separate places. Choir and virtual choir are choirs.
Vocal jazz
Vocal jazz or jazz singing is a genre within jazz music where the voice is used as an instrument.
Vocal weight
Vocal weight refers to the perceived "lightness" or "heaviness" of a singing voice.
Voice change
A voice change or voice mutation, sometimes referred to as a voice break or voice crack, commonly refers to the deepening of the voice of men as they reach puberty.
War Requiem
The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Westminster Abbey Choir School
Westminster Abbey Choir School is a boarding preparatory school for boys in Westminster, London and the only remaining choir school in the United Kingdom which exclusively educates choristers (i.e. only choirboys attend the school).
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Westminster Choir College
Westminster Choir College (WCC) is an historic conservatory of music, currently operating on the campus of Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
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William Byrd
William Byrd (4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Women's choir
A women's choir or women's chorus is a choir formed exclusively by women. Choir and women's choir are types of musical groups.
See also
Choirs
- Cantoris
- Chelaalapí Qom Choir
- Choir
- Close Harmony (1981 film)
- Come and sing
- Decani
- Delhi Chamber Choir
- Europa Cantat
- Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus
- Harmonious Chorale
- House Gospel Choir
- Kamchatka Choir Capella
- Lay clerk
- Men's chorus
- SSAA choir
- Scratch Messiah
- Show choir
- Show choirs
- Singakademie
- Symbol (choir)
- The Tahitian Choir
- Virtual choir
References
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