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  2. List of compositions by John Cage - Wikipedia

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    Electronic Music for Piano, for solo piano (or any number of pianos) with electronics (1964) Rozart Mix, tape loops (1965) Variations V (1965) Variations VI, for a plurality of sound systems (1966) Music for Carillon No. 5, for a four-octave instrument (1967) Variations VIII, no music or recordings (May 1967; revised 1978)

  3. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    A further example of fluid counterpoint in late Beethoven may be found in the first orchestral variation on the "Ode to Joy" theme in the last movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, bars 116–123. The famous theme is heard on the violas and cellos , while "the basses add a bass-line whose sheer unpredictability gives the impression that it is ...

  4. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    The final (4th) movement of the symphony, commonly known as the Ode to Joy, features four vocal soloists and a chorus in the parallel key of D major. The text was adapted from the " An die Freude (Ode to Joy) ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additional text written by Beethoven.

  5. Exact differential equation - Wikipedia

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    Given a simply connected and open subset D of and two functions I and J which are continuous on D, an implicit first-order ordinary differential equation of the form (,) + (,) =,is called an exact differential equation if there exists a continuously differentiable function F, called the potential function, [1] [2] so that

  6. Les préludes - Wikipedia

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    Les préludes is the earliest example of an orchestral ... celli is the exact quote of a theme from ... of Lamartine's ode. This initially hesitant music, which ...

  7. Alexander's Feast (Dryden poem) - Wikipedia

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    In 1683 the Musical Society of London was formed for the purpose of commissioning and performing annually an ode in honour of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Dryden had previously written another ode, "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day", for the 1687 festival. "Alexander's Feast" was written for the 1697 festival. [1]

  8. Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The nightingale's song within the poem is connected to the art of music in a way that the urn in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is connected to the art of sculpture. As such, the nightingale would represent an enchanting presence and, unlike the urn, is directly connected to nature. As natural music, the song is for beauty and lacks a message of truth.

  9. Epode - Wikipedia

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    According to one meaning of the word, an epode [1] is the third part of an ancient Greek choral ode that follows the strophe and the antistrophe and completes the movement. [ 2 ] The word epode is also used to refer to the second (shorter) line of a two-line stanza of the kind composed by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line ...