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A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello: little return: A recurring passage in a piece of Baroque ...
allegro Cheerful or brisk; but commonly interpreted as lively, fast all'ottava "at the octave", see ottava alt (Eng.), alt dom, or altered dominant A jazz term which instructs chord-playing musicians such as a jazz pianist or jazz guitarist to perform a dominant (V7) chord with at least one (often both) altered (sharpened or flattened) 5th or 9th
Allegro, an 1884 piano piece by Erik Satie "Allegro", any of several musical works in Nannerl Notenbuch by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Allegro", a composition by Bear McCreary in Music of Battlestar Galactica; Allegro, a 2005 Danish film by Christoffer Boe; Allegro, a 1947 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein
The composer and music theorist Johann Kirnberger (1776) formalized and refined this idea by instructing the performer to consider the following details in combination when determining the best performance tempo of a piece: the tempo giusto of the meter, the tempo term (Allegro, Adagio, etc., if there is one, at the start of the piece), the ...
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Simplest form of metric modulation, unmarked (= ), in a piece by J.S. Bach. Slow introduction followed by an allegro traditionally taken at double the speed.Sixteenth notes in the old tempo prepare for eighth notes in the new tempo. [1]
The allegro, in sonata form, follows without a break. [20] [21] It opens with a harp solo. The flute takes up the melody, to the accompaniment of the violins pizzicato and the other strings arco. The melody is passed from one instrument to another; the music gradually grows louder until a fortissimo climax is reached. [22]
The Symphony No. 3 has a duration of roughly 24 minutes and is cast in five movements: . Passacaglia; Allegro molto vivace; Largo; Andante; Allegro molto; The movements were not composed in chronological order; Rorem wrote the "Allegro molto vivace" first, the "Pasacaglia" second, the "Andante" third, the "Largo" fourth, and the "Allegro molto" last.