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  2. Chamber music - Wikipedia

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    Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string ...

  3. Musette de cour - Wikipedia

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    The bulk of music written for the musette is not solo music; duos are the most popular form, followed by trio-sonatas. Much of the music available for the instrument was described as suitable for musette, hurdy-gurdy, recorder or transverse flute; or for all these plus oboe or violin. Modern editions, usually for recorder, give people the ...

  4. Sonata da camera - Wikipedia

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    The term sonata da camera was originally used in its literal meaning of "chamber music", but later came to be used figuratively to contrast this genre of composition with the sonata da chiesa, which literally meant "church music", but generally comprised a suite of four movements with tempos following a largo–allegro–largo–allegro pattern.

  5. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    Chamber music for ensemble – Compositions written a small group of musicians. Duet – Composition for two instruments or voices. Piano four hands – Piano duet involving two players playing the same piano simultaneously. Trio – Composition for three instruments or voices. Piano trio – Composition for piano and two other instruments.

  6. Tarpa (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    In its construction, the Tarpa is a Single-reed instrument with two pipes possessing free-beating reeds (in principle similar to the Pungi or the Hulusi). [5] The structure of the instrument can be divided into three parts - the reservoir chamber or a wind chest with a mouth-blowing hole, the bamboo pipes with holes for controlling pitch, and the resonant horn chamber with a hole for ...

  7. Octet (Stravinsky) - Wikipedia

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    Stravinsky in 1921. The Octet for wind instruments is a chamber music composition by Igor Stravinsky, completed in 1923.. Stravinsky’s Octet is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass instruments: flute, clarinet in B ♭ and A, two bassoons, trumpet in C, trumpet in A, tenor trombone, and bass trombone.

  8. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. [140] During the Baroque music era, the lute was used as one of the instruments which played the basso continuo accompaniment parts. It is also an accompanying ...

  9. Korean court music - Wikipedia

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    Performances in the form of banquet dances typically accompany the court music, in which musical institutions play a role in teaching and training musicians and performers on the forms of traditional Korean dance. The instruments used in Korean court music vary depending on the specific genre but do show various overlaps between the three ...