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  2. Art music - Wikipedia

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    Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music [1]) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value. [2] It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerations [ 3 ] or a written musical tradition. [ 4 ]

  3. Fantasia (musical form) - Wikipedia

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    The term was first applied to music during the 16th century, at first to refer to the imaginative musical "idea" rather than to a particular compositional genre. Its earliest use as a title was in German keyboard manuscripts from before 1520, and by 1536 is found in printed tablatures from Spain, Italy, Germany, and France.

  4. Performing arts - Wikipedia

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    Music is an art form which combines pitch, rhythm, and dynamic to create sound. It can be performed using a variety of instruments and styles and is divided into genres such as folk, jazz, hip hop, pop, and rock, etc. As an art form, music can occur in live or recorded formats, and can be planned or improvised.

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In the art of, in the style of in stand An instruction to brass players to direct the bell of their instrument into the music stand, instead of up and toward the audience, thus muting the sound but without changing the timbre as a mute would [9] incalzando Getting faster and louder innig (Ger.) Intimate, heartfelt insistendo Insistently ...

  6. Aleatoricism - Wikipedia

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    Aleatoricism (or aleatorism) is a term for musical compositions and other forms of art [citation needed] resulting from "actions made by chance".. The term was first used "in the context of electro-acoustics and information theory" to describe "a course of sound events that is determined in its framework and flexible in detail", by Belgian-German physicist, acoustician, and information ...

  7. Music and mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Music theory analyzes the pitch, timing, and structure of music. It uses mathematics to study elements of music such as tempo, chord progression, form, and meter. The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set theory, abstract algebra and number theory.

  8. Wall of Sound - Wikipedia

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    The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) [1] [2] is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew".

  9. Variation (music) - Wikipedia

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    For example, Gil Evans' 1959 arrangement of George Gershwin's song "Summertime" from the opera Porgy and Bess is an example of variation through changing orchestral timbre. At the outset, Evans presents a single variation that repeats five times in subtly differing instrumental combinations.