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  2. Dynamic Motion - Wikipedia

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    He would later give the piece a futurist-infused programmatic meaning in future concerts, saying:. Dynamic Motion is a musical impression of the New York subway.The clamor in the subterranean darkness, the wireless-like crossing of many minds huddled together, and rushing along insanely under the earth, a touch of horror and jagged suspense, and then the far light in the tunnel and the ...

  3. Piano solo - Wikipedia

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    The piano is often used to provide harmonic accompaniment to a voice or other instrument.However, solo parts for the piano are common in many musical styles. These can take the form of a section in which the piano is heard more prominently than other instruments, or in which the piano may be played entirely unaccompanied.

  4. Strum - Wikipedia

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    The pattern most typical of rock and related styles is: 1&2&3&4& d du udu. The final upstroke is sometimes omitted altering the strumming pattern slightly to d du ud. This pattern is often called "Old Faithful", [7] or when played on ukulele, the "Island Strum". Examples of other strumming patterns include: [8] Single down strum: d d d d

  5. 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]

  6. Tone cluster - Wikipedia

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    A solo piano piece Cowell wrote the following year, The Tides of Manaunaun (1917), would prove to be his most popular work and the composition most responsible for establishing the tone cluster as a significant element in Western classical music.

  7. Melodic pattern - Wikipedia

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    Simple melodic pattern. Play ⓘ Melodic sequence on the lines "Send her victorious," and "Happy and glorious," from "God Save the Queen" Play ⓘ In music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern. It is a figure that can be used with any scale.

  8. I–V–vi–IV progression - Wikipedia

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    It does not accurately represent the chord progressions of all the songs it depicts. It was originally written in D major (thus the progression being D major, A major, B minor, G major) and performed live in the key of E major (thus using the chords E major, B major, C♯ minor, and A major). The song was subsequently published on YouTube. [9]

  9. Giant Steps (composition) - Wikipedia

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    Flanagan revisited "Giant Steps" on several recordings, including an album named after the song, which he dedicated to Coltrane. [8] In some of the alternate takes, Cedar Walton is at the piano, declining to take a solo and playing at a slower tempo than the takes with Flanagan. Coltrane had shown Walton "Giant Steps" a few weeks beforehand ...