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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    The speed of music; e.g. 120 BPM (beats per minute) (Tempo) rubato: robbed: Free flowing and exempt from steady rhythm Tenuto: sustained: Holding or sustaining a single note Vivace: vivacious: Fast and lively tempo (quicker than allegro)

  3. Tempo - Wikipedia

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    In popular music genres such as disco, house music and electronic dance music, beatmatching is a technique that DJs use that involves speeding up or slowing down a record (or CDJ player, a speed-adjustable CD player for DJ use) to match the tempo of a previous or subsequent track, so both can be seamlessly mixed.

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    allegretto vivace A moderately quick tempo allegrezza Cheerfulness, joyfulness allegrissimo Very fast, though slower than presto allegro Cheerful or brisk; but commonly interpreted as lively, fast all'ottava "at the octave", see ottava alt (Eng.), alt dom, or altered dominant

  5. Mazurkas, Op. 7 (Chopin) - Wikipedia

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    The Mazurkas, Op. 7 are a set of five mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin.The mazurkas were mostly written in 1830–1831 and were published in 1832. This is the only set of Chopin's mazurkas that contains 5 pieces; all the composer's other published sets consist of either 3 or 4 mazurkas each.

  6. Sonata for Clarinet (Cage) - Wikipedia

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    Vivace; Lento; Vivace; The first movement is influenced by twelve-tone technique, but is not bound by its formal procedures: there is no row in the strict sense of the word, but the music is based on retrogrades of various melodic and rhythmic fragments. For example, the contents of bars 1–2 is presented in retrograde in bars 20–21, with ...

  7. Horn Concerto No. 4 - Wikipedia

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    Rondo (Allegro vivace) 6/8 [1] A typical performance duration of the concerto takes 16 to 18 minutes. The manuscript, [2] written in red, green, blue, and black ink, was formerly considered as a jocular attempt to rattle the intended performer, Mozart's friend Joseph Leutgeb. However, recently it was suggested that the multicolored score may ...

  8. Suite Punta del Este - Wikipedia

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    It has been used as a signature theme for the 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys as well as a model for music in a scene in The Simpsons episode "Yokel Chords". [ citation needed ] References

  9. String Quartet No. 12 (Dvořák) - Wikipedia

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    This scale gives the whole quartet its open, simple character, a character that is frequently identified with American folk music. However, the pentatonic scale is common in many traditional musics worldwide, and before coming to America Dvořák had composed pentatonic music, being familiar with such Slavonic folk music examples. [20]