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  2. Informalism - Wikipedia

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    Informalism or Art Informel (French pronunciation: [aʁ ɛ̃fɔʁmɛl]) is a pictorial movement from the 1943–1950s, [1] that includes all the abstract and gestural tendencies that developed in France and the rest of Europe during the World War II, similar to American abstract expressionism started 1946.

  3. Art movement - Wikipedia

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    An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

  4. Polyphony - Wikipedia

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    Polyphony (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ f ə n i / pə-LIF-ə-nee) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ().

  5. Six degrees of freedom - Wikipedia

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    Degrees of freedom problem – Multiple ways for multi-joint objects to realize a movement; Euler angles – Description of the orientation of a rigid body; Geometric terms of location – Directions or positions relative to the shape and position of an object; Ship motions – Terms connected to the six degrees of freedom of motion

  6. Fugue - Wikipedia

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    The six-part fugue in the "Ricercar a 6" from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian BachIn classical music, a fugue (/ f juː ɡ /, from Latin fuga, meaning "flight" or "escape" [1]) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches ...

  7. Melody - Wikipedia

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    Jazz musicians use the term "lead" or "head" to refer to the main melody, which is used as a starting point for improvisation. Rock music , and other forms of popular music and folk music tend to pick one or two melodies ( verse and chorus , sometimes with a third, contrasting melody known as a bridge or middle eight ) and stick with them; much ...

  8. Atonality - Wikipedia

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    Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on a single, central triad is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale function independently of one another. [1]

  9. Music - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [5] While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. [6] Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. [7]