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  2. Mozart's compositional method - Wikipedia

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    Though many of these were destroyed by Mozart's widow Constanze, [1] about 320 sketches and drafts survive, covering about 10 percent of the composer's work. [1] Ulrich Konrad, an expert on the sketches, [2] describes a well-worked-out system of sketching that Mozart used, based on examination of the surviving documents. Typically the most ...

  3. Category:Musical instruments in art - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Musical instruments in art" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Georges Braque, 1909-10, La guitare (Mandora, La Mandore), oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.9 cm, Tate Modern, London.jpg 1,287 × 1,536; 225 KB

  4. Cubism - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

  5. Gittern - Wikipedia

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    Although the round-backed instrument appears to have lost ground to the new form which gradually developed into the guitar familiar today, the influence of the earlier style continued. Examples of lutes converted into guitars exist in several museums, while purpose-built instruments like the gallichon utilised the tuning and single string ...

  6. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

  7. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop systems. In Europe, the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists, and today most of the people who are pursuing a career in the arts train in art schools at tertiary levels.

  8. List of quarter tone pieces - Wikipedia

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    Quarter tones are also used in Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. [8] Sonata for Solo Violin; the fourth movement Presto contains quarter-tones, but they are not "structural features." [9] This movement also calls for third-tones. Violin Concerto No. 2; the cadenza in the first movement requires the use of quarter-tones, but only as an ...

  9. Canon (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.).