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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  4. A Private Heaven - Wikipedia

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    On 24 November 2014, the album was included in a box set in the UK with all of her first five albums with EMI through Warner Music Group. A 2CD deluxe edition of A Private Heaven , remastered from the original master tapes for the first time with 21 bonus tracks, including 12 previously unreleased tracks, along with 12" mixes and B-sides, was ...

  5. Bass bar - Wikipedia

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    BASS-BAR, an oblong piece of wood, fixed lengthwise inside the belly of the various instruments belonging to the violin-tribe, running in the same direction with the strings, below the lowest string , and acting as a beam or girder to strengthen the belly against the pressure of the left foot of the bridge , as the sound-post does against that ...

  6. Fictional music - Wikipedia

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    The essence of fictional music is usually to convince the recipient that he could experience it in the real world. [1] [2] It often has a diegetic character. [3] Depending on a work, it can be serious, but it can also take on a playful and parodic character (e.g. in concert from the 1964 film The World of Henry Orient). Fictional music can be ...

  7. Strut (Sheena Easton song) - Wikipedia

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    Strut" was released by EMI America in August 1984 as the album's lead single and peaked that November at No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the UK—where the single was released in November 1984—the track became the first US top-40 single by Easton to completely miss the top 100 of the UK Singles Chart.

  8. Cissy Strut - Wikipedia

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    "Cissy Strut" is a 1969 funk instrumental by The Meters. Released as a single from their eponymous debut album , it reached No. 4 on the R&B chart and No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 3 ] The tune was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011, which honors "recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 ...

  9. Al "Carnival Time" Johnson - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, in performance in Mandeville, Louisiana, Johnson was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. [2] Also in that year, he released the critically acclaimed "Lower Ninth Ward Blues", reflecting the plight of his and many others dislocation from their homes in the New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward by Hurricane Katrina .