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  2. Poi (performance art) - Wikipedia

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    Poi is a performing art and also the name of the equipment used for its performance. As a skill toy, poi is an object or theatrical prop used for dexterity play or an object manipulation. As a performance art, poi involves swinging tethered weights through a variety of rhythmical and geometric patterns.

  3. Lyric setting - Wikipedia

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    By the time the listener can identify a mis-stressed word, the song has already moved onto new words and melodies, and the word can no longer live up to its full meaning in context. Most times, the listener’s focus will move forward with the song, latching onto new words and ideas that are easier to identify and recognize, leaving the mis ...

  4. Kinetic art - Wikipedia

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    Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art. [1] More pertinently speaking, kinetic art is a term that today most often refers to three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles that move naturally or are machine operated (see e ...

  5. Sequence (music) - Wikipedia

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    The difference being in the last three pitches (C, B ♭, A versus F, E, D). We have whole-step + half-step intervals in the first, and half-step + whole-step in the second. A rhythmic sequence is the repetition of a rhythm with free use of pitches: The opening bars of "The Star-Spangled Banner" Opening bars of "The Star-Spangled Banner"

  6. Melody - Wikipedia

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    Examples include musique concrète, klangfarbenmelodie, Elliott Carter's Eight Etudes and a Fantasy (which contains a movement with only one note), the third movement of Ruth Crawford-Seeger's String Quartet 1931 (later re-orchestrated as Andante for string orchestra), which creates the melody from an unchanging set of pitches through ...

  7. Art movement - Wikipedia

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    An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

  8. Identifying baseball pitch types in 2023: A modern field ...

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    For example, a list of pitch types that had remained mostly static for decades — fastball, slider, curveball, changeup — has expanded to include the sweeper.

  9. Contrapuntal motion - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, contrapuntal motion is the general movement of two or more melodic lines with respect to each other. [1] In traditional four-part harmony, it is important that lines maintain their independence, an effect which can be achieved by the judicious use of the four types of contrapuntal motion: parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion, and oblique motion.