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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...

  3. Musical - Wikipedia

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    Musical is the adjective of music.. Musical may also refer to: . Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance; Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters

  4. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    A two-part musical form Cadenza: falling: A florid solo at the end of a performance Cantata: sung: A piece for orchestra and singers Capriccio: caprice: A lively piece, free in form, often used to show musical skill Cavatina: small instrumental tone: A simple melody or song Coda: tail: The end of a piece Concerto: concert

  5. Libretto - Wikipedia

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    Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation and musical notation for one of the arias. Sometimes the libretto is written in close collaboration with the composer; this can involve adaptation, as was the case with Rimsky-Korsakov and his librettist Vladimir Belsky, or an entirely original work ...

  6. Musical language - Wikipedia

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    There are only a few language families as of now such as the Solresol language family, Moss language family, and Nibuzigu language family. The Solresol family is a family of a posteriori languages (usually English) where a sequence of 7 notes of the western C-Major scale or the 12 tone chromatic scale are used as phonemes.

  7. Chaconne - Wikipedia

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    The "Ciaccona" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin No. 2. A chaconne (/ ʃ ə ˈ k ɒ n / shə-KON, French:; Spanish: chacona; Italian: ciaccona [tʃakˈkoːna]; earlier English: chacony) [1] is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offers ...

  8. Maestoso - Wikipedia

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    Maestoso (Italian pronunciation: [ma.eˈstoːzo]) is an Italian musical term and is used to direct performers to play a certain passage of music in a stately, dignified and majestic fashion (sometimes march-like) or, it is used to describe music as such.

  9. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]