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The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...
Waterloo: early music orchestra and chamber choir; Opera Atelier, Toronto: baroque opera company; The Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver; Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal: mostly music of the Renaissance and early baroque; Tafelmusik, Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir; Theatre of Early Music (Daniel Taylor), Toronto: chamber ...
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
Orchestra: orchestra, orig. Greek orkesthai "dance" An ensemble of instruments Piano(forte) soft-loud: A keyboard instrument Piccolo: little: A tiny woodwind instrument Sordun: deaf, dull in sound: An archaic double-reed wind instrument Timpani: drums: Large drums Tuba: tube: A large brass instrument Viola: viola, orig. Latin vitulari "be joyful"
A duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and other Latin American music trill A rapid, usually unmeasured alternation between two harmonically adjacent notes (e.g. an interval of a semitone or a whole tone). A similar alternation using a wider interval is called a tremolo. triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3')
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements , often four, with ...
List of music students by teacher: N to Q; List of music students by teacher: R to S; List of music students by teacher: T to Z; List of prize-winners of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition; List of Sun Aria winners; List of African-American women in classical music; List of centenarians (musicians, composers and music patrons)
This is a list of musical genres within the context of classical music, organized according to the corresponding periods in which they arose or became common. Various terms can be used to classify a classical music composition, mainly including genre, form , compositional technique and style.