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  2. Art song - Wikipedia

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    An art song is most often a musical setting of an independent poem or text, [1] "intended for the concert repertory" [2] "as part of a recital or other relatively formal social occasion". [3] While many vocal music pieces are easily recognized as art songs, others are more difficult to categorize. For example, a wordless vocalise written by a ...

  3. 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 ]

  4. Subject (music) - Wikipedia

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    Music based on a single theme is called monothematic, while music based on several themes is called polythematic. Most fugues are monothematic and most pieces in sonata form are polythematic. [8] In the exposition of a fugue, the principal theme (usually called the subject) is announced successively in each voice – sometimes in a transposed form.

  5. Musical quotation - Wikipedia

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    Musical quotation is to be distinguished from variation, where a composer takes a theme (their own or another's) and writes variations on it.In that case, the origin of the theme is usually acknowledged in the title (e.g., Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn).

  6. Theme music - Wikipedia

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    Opening credits and theme music to the television cartoon series Calvin and the Colonel. Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program. [1]

  7. Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Schools/Welcome/Arts and Music ...

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    The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines which produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and convey a message, mood, or symbolism for the perceiver to interpret (art as experience). Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas ...

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  9. Lyricism - Wikipedia

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    Modern examples would be some of the later works of Le Corbusier [6] and Zaha Hadid. [8] Dance: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty exhibit classic lyricism. Film: Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) has been described as an example of the mid-20th century lyricism movement in film, as well as The Art of Vision (1965) and Fireworks (1947). [9]