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A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.
His performance included one of his pieces titled 'Patterns'. Parmenter said his playing on 'Unser Drummer Poebel meint' had been "most persuasive when the music was delicate and innocent". He was impressed with the second piece titled 'Brisk and Sharp', saying he played those passages with a "certain flair".
Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.The musical lampoons American politics; the story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform.
A brisk orchestral passage introduces a lively verse about London Bridge and the Tower, in which the men's voices are featured, first the basses and then the tenors. The last stanza, "Strong be thy walls", has what Tierney calls "a Belshazzar-like grandeur", ending with the jubilant ringing of bells.
A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello: little return: A recurring passage in a piece of Baroque music Segue: it follows: A smooth movement from one passage to another with ...
Many versions follow a line similar to this. William Taylor, a "brisk young sailor" is at church about to be married when he is taken by the press gang: William Taylor was a brisk young sailor He who courted a lady fair Bells were ringing, sailors singing As to church they did repair. Now forty couple were at the wedding, All were dressed in ...
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner 's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John Philip Sousa and the martial hymns of the ...
Musical phrasing is the method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression, much like when speaking English a phrase may be written identically but may be spoken differently, and is named for the interpretation of small units of time known as phrases (half of a period).