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As the theme music begins a runway (believed to be Santa Pod Raceway in Podington in real life) [1] appears and a Lotus Super Seven drives under the camera (driven by stuntman Jack Cooper). The view dissolves to reveal a stern-faced man, the future Number Six , driving past the Houses of Parliament in London, into an underground car park (near ...
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
Verbatim means word for word. It may refer to: Verbatim, a 1996 album by Bob Ostertag "Verbatim" (song), a 2015 song by Blackbear; Verbatim (brand), a brand of storage media and flash memory; Verbatim (horse), an American racehorse; Verbatim, edited by Erin McKean; Verbatim theatre, a form of documentary theatre
Note that the direction a piacere (see above) has a more restricted meaning, generally referring to only the first two types of discretion. Baroque music, especially, has a written or implied ad libitum, with most composers intimating the freedom the performer and conductor have. For post-Baroque classical music and jazz, see cadenza.
Musical quotation is the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition. The quotation may be from the same composer's work (self-referential), or ...
The mostly syllabic recitativo secco [A] ("dry", accompanied only by continuo, typically cello and harpsichord) is at one end of the spectrum, through recitativo accompagnato (using orchestra), the more melismatic arioso, and finally the full-blown aria or ensemble, where the pulse is entirely governed by the music. Secco recitatives can be ...
Often, the meaning of an allegory is religious, moral, or historical in nature. Example: "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser. [1] Periphrasis: the usage of multiple separate words to carry the meaning of prefixes, suffixes or verbs. Objective correlative; Simile: a figure of speech that directly/explicitly compares two things.
Voice 1: a b c Voice 2: c a b Voice 3: b c a The first use of the term "Stimmtausch" was in 1903-4 in an article by Friedrich Ludwig, while its English calque was first used in 1949 by Jacques Handschin. [4] The term is also used, with a related but distinct meaning, in Schenkerian theory.