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  2. Tasto solo - Wikipedia

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    Tasto solo is an Italian term used in music scores, usually on the continuo part, to indicate that a note or section should be played on its own, without harmony. [1] The term tasto is Italian for key (as Italian "tastiera" is for fingerboard), so the part is to be played solo by the fingerboard instrument (e.g. cello) and not by the harmony instrument (e.g. harpsichord) where a basso continuo ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The practice of using solo voices on each musical line or part in choral music. ordinario (ord.) (Ital.) or position ordinaire (Fr.) In bowed string music, an indication to discontinue extended techniques such as sul ponticello, sul tasto or col legno, and return to normal playing. The same as "naturale". organ trio

  4. Figured bass - Wikipedia

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    The reason tasto solo had to be specified was because it was an accepted convention that if no figures were present in a section of otherwise figured bass line, the chord-playing performer would either assume that it was a root-position triad, or deduce from the harmonic motion that another figure was implied.

  5. Basso continuo - Wikipedia

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    The reason tasto solo had to be specified was because it was an accepted convention that if no figures were present in a section of otherwise figured bass line, the chord-playing performer would either assume that it was a root-position triad, or deduce from the harmonic motion that another figure was implied.

  6. Unfigured bass - Wikipedia

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    Unfigured bass, less commonly known as under-figured bass, is a kind of musical notation used during the Baroque music era in Western Classical music (ca. 1600–1750) in which a basso continuo performer playing a chordal instrument (e.g., harpsichord, organ, or lute) improvises a chordal accompaniment from a notated bass line which lacks the guidance of figures indicating which harmonies ...

  7. Category:Musical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Tasto solo; Tempo; Tenor; Terp (music industry jargon) Territory band; Terzschritt; Tetrad (music) Text declamation; Thirty-two-bar form; Titling; Tone (musical instrument) Tonus peregrinus; Treble voice; Triad (music) Trumpet voluntary; Tutti

  8. Alborada del gracioso - Wikipedia

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    In the years 1904–05, as he was finishing his String Quartet, Ravel composed Miroirs (Mirrors), a suite of five short piano pieces. [13] He later orchestrated two of them: the orchestral version of "Une Barque sur l'océan" (A Barque on the Ocean) came out in 1906; [14] more than a decade elapsed before Ravel orchestrated the other, the "Alborada del gracioso".

  9. Index of music articles - Wikipedia

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    C; C♯ C major; C minor; C-flat major; C-sharp major; C-sharp minor; Cabaletta; Cadence; Cadenza; Caesura; Call and response (music) Call changes; Calypso music ...