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  2. Sound test - Wikipedia

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    A sound test is a function built into the options screen of many video games. This function was originally meant to test whether the game's music and sounds would function correctly (hence the name), as well as giving the player the ability to compare samples played in Monaural , Stereophonic and later Surround sound.

  3. List of program music - Wikipedia

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    Antar - symphony No. 2, later published as a symphonic suite. Sadko, Op. 5 - described as a Musical Picture; Night on Mt Triglav - extracted from the opera “Mlada” Skazka - “Fairy Tale” inspired by Pushkin. The Snow Maiden - suite from the opera “Snegurochka” Christmas Eve - suite from the opera; The Invisible City of Kitezh - suite ...

  4. Realization (figured bass) - Wikipedia

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    Early operas were produced from a score containing, mostly, just the vocal parts and figured bass (as in Ex. 6, without keyboard realization); these were elaborated and ornamented by the performers . The resulting performance might relate to the score rather as a great jazz performance might relate to the melody and chords indicated in a fake book.

  5. Beethoven's musical style - Wikipedia

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    [2] Beethoven expanded the formal and emotional scope – not to mention length – of nearly every genre in which he wrote. While he is most famous for his heightening of the symphonic form, Beethoven also had a dramatic influence on the piano sonata, violin sonata, string quartet and piano concerto, among several others.

  6. Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig van Beethoven [n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.

  7. Beethoven's compositional method - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven's portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer in the transition between the classical and romantic period. He composed in many different forms including nine symphonies, five piano concertos, and a violin concerto. [1] Beethoven's method of composition has long been debated among ...

  8. Performance practice of Bach's music - Wikipedia

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    By the time the composers of the classical period, such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, encountered Bach's music performance practice had largely changed: keyboard music was performed on the piano, and what little of his vocal music that was still performed was limited to a cappella music. The figured bass was being replaced by written-out ...

  9. The Well-Tempered Clavier - Wikipedia

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    In the composer's time clavier referred to a variety of keyboard instruments, namely the harpsichord, the clavichord and the organ (which operates using air instead of strings), but not excluding the regal and the then newly-invented fortepiano.