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  2. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  3. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    The song "Swinging the Alphabet" is sung by The Three Stooges in their short film Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938). It is the only full-length song performed by the Stooges in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack. The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:

  4. I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)

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    The song was published in 1931, though a song using the same title, with a similar lyric by Rose and different music, had been published five years earlier. [1] It was introduced in the Broadway musical Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt, which opened in May, 1931, where it was sung by Fanny Brice. [1] Many versions of the song were recorded in 1931.

  5. Category:Songs written by Andy Bell (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Seagull (Ride song) Sennen (song) Separation Sunday (song) Silver (Ride song) Smoke Rings (Hurricane No. 1 song) Soon Come Tomorrow; Stand in Line (song) Standing on the Edge of the Noise (song) Starlight Motel; Step into My World (song) Strange Meeting (song) Sunshine / Nowhere to Run

  6. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, the middle eight or bridge is the B section of a 32-bar form. [6] This section has a significantly different melody from the rest of the song and usually occurs after the second "A" section in the AABA song form. It is also called a middle eight because it happens in the middle of the song and the length is generally eight bars.

  7. Telephone Line (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song charted in the Top Ten in both the UK and the US, peaking at number 8 in the UK [8] and number 7 in the US. [9] It was on the Hot 100 for 23 weeks, nearly a full month longer on that chart than any other ELO song. Billboard ranked it as the No. 15 song of 1977. In 1977, the song reached number 1 in New Zealand and Canada.

  8. Glossary of Italian music - Wikipedia

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    maggio delle ragazze: A maggio song for young girls [4] maggio drammatico: A music and drama celebration held during maggio [1] [2] maitinade: A kind of dance song, most common in Trento; it is composed of six-line stanzas of eleven syllables per line [2] mantignada: A song form peculiar to Sissano [1] metitora: A form of two-part song from ...

  9. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    A way of writing a song in which after a singer sings a line, other singers (e.g. backup singers or band members) respond with a line that completes the thought. Call and response singing was originally part of African-American work songs, and it subsequently became an important part of the blues.