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  2. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Musica reservata – Style in a cappella vocal music of the latter half of the 16th century. Musical repertoire – Collection of music pieces played by an individual musician or ensemble, composed for a particular instrument or group of instruments, voice, or choir, or from a particular period or area.

  3. Musical analysis - Wikipedia

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    Stylistic levels may be hierarchized as an inverted triangle: [16] universals of music system (style) of reference style of a genre or an epoch style of composer X style of a period in the life of a composer work; Nattiez outlines six analytical situations, preferring the sixth:: [17]

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A theme that is repeated and imitated and built upon by other instruments with a time delay, creating a layered effect; see Pachelbel's Canon. cantabile or cantando In a singing style. 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

  5. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

  6. Historically informed performance - Wikipedia

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    Performance on period instruments is a key aspect of HIP, such as this baroque orchestra (Photo: Josetxu Obregón and the Spanish ensemble La Ritirata, 2013).. Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical ...

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    Sharp and flat signs are placed immediately after the note name, for example B ♭ or F ♯, as indicated by Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)#Accidentals. If the octave is also to be indicated, use either Helmholtz pitch notation , as in E–A–d–g–b–e′ for the guitar, or scientific pitch notation , as in E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G 3 –B ...

  8. Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) - Wikipedia

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    Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...

  9. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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    The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".