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Instructs one section to divide into two or more separate sections, each playing a separate part. Often these separate parts are written on the same staff. Oppure: from o ("or") + pure ("also") Informs the player of alternative ways to play a passage. See Ossia. Solo: alone: A piece or performance to be played by a single musician Sole: Group solo
Hymn-style arrangement of "Adeste Fideles" in standard two-staff format (bass staff and treble staff) for mixed voices Tibetan musical score from the 19th century. Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.
A music score of an opera, musical, or a vocal or choral composition with orchestra (like oratorio or cantata) where the vocal parts are written out in full but the accompaniment is reduced to two staves and adapted for playing on piano voce Voice volante Flying volti subito (V.S.) Turn immediately (i.e. turn the page quickly).
In the movement entitled 'The Night's Music' [4] ('Musiques nocturnes' in French) of Out of Doors for solo piano (1926), Béla Bartók imitated the sounds of nature. It contains quiet, eerie, blurred cluster-chords and imitations of the twittering of birds and croaking of nocturnal creatures, with lonely melodies in contrasting sections.
Under this scheme the vowel sounds in the text are matched to the vowel sounds of the solmization syllables of Guido of Arezzo (where 'ut' is the root, which we now call 'do'). Thus the Latin name of the dedicatee 'Hercules Dux Ferrarie' ( Ercole d'Este, Duke of Ferrara ) becomes re-ut-re-ut-re-fa-mi-re, which translates as D-C-D-C-D-F-E-D in ...
Billy Joel performing in 2017. Billy Joel is the "Piano Man," and the song is celebrating its 50th anniversary.. Originally released on Nov. 2, 1973, Joel's signature song isn't even the tune that ...
Performance is the physical expression of music, which occurs when a song is sung or piano piece, guitar melody, symphony, drum beat or other musical part is played. In classical music, a work is written in music notation by a composer and then performed once the composer is satisfied with its structure and instrumentation. However, as it gets ...
The Kurzweil K250 was the first electronic instrument to faithfully reproduce the sounds of an acoustic grand piano. [5] It could play up to 12 notes simultaneously (known as 12-note polyphony ) by using individual sounds as well as layered sounds (playing multiple sounds on the same note simultaneously, also known as being multitimbral ).