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  2. Word painting - Wikipedia

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    Word painting, also known as tone painting or text painting, is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music. Historical development

  3. Monophony - Wikipedia

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    This melody for the traditional song "Pop Goes the Weasel" is monophonic as long as it is performed without chordal accompaniment. [1]Play ⓘ. In music, monophony is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanying harmony or chords.

  4. Art song - Wikipedia

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    Bar five of Schubert's art song entitled Nacht und Träume. The vocal part, including the melody notes and the text, is in the top stave. The two staves below are the piano part. An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

  5. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    Art song – Musical setting of a poem or text usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment. Lied – German art song. Mélodie – French art song. Song cycle – Group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. Aubade – Song or instrumental composition concerning morning love or lovers separating at dawn.

  6. Dies irae - Wikipedia

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    Centre panel from Memling's triptych Last Judgment (c. 1467–1471) " Dies irae" (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈdi.es ˈi.re]; "the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) [1] or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ...

  7. Monaural sound - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of monaural sound. Monaural sound or monophonic sound (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position. [1] This contrasts with stereophonic sound or stereo, which uses two separate audio channels to reproduce sound from two microphones on the right and left side, which is reproduced with two separate loudspeakers to give a sense of ...

  8. Conductus - Wikipedia

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    The text declamation of the conductus can be either syllabic/neumatic or melismatic. The syllabic/neumatic type is coined the term musica cum littera. Monophonic pieces are mostly syllabic. The latter is called musica sine littera. The melismatic declamation can be applied to the caudae or the entire piece. The medieval theorist, Franco de ...

  9. Category:Monophony - Wikipedia

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    Monophonic musical instruments (1 C, 1 P) Monophonic synthesizers (55 P) W. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...