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  2. Piano Sonata No. 18 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    The Piano Sonata No. 18 in E ♭ major, Op. 31, No. 3, is an 1802 sonata for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven. A third party gave the piece the nickname "The Hunt" due to one of its themes' resemblance to a horn call. [ 1 ]

  3. String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    It consists of four movements: . Allegro (); Andante con moto (B-flat major)Allegro (D major) Presto (D major) According to Michael Steinberg, this is "the gentlest, most consistently lyrical work [within Beethoven's Op. 18]", [1] except for the fourth movement, in which "Beethoven first explores the idea of shifting the centre of gravity toward the end of a multimovement work".

  4. String Quartet No. 1 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    According to Carl Amenda [], Beethoven's friend, the second movement was inspired by the crypt scene [2] from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The quartet was heavily revised between the version that Amenda first received, and that was dedicated to him, and the one that was sent to the publisher a year later, including changing the second movement's marking from Adagio molto to the more ...

  5. Movement (music) - Wikipedia

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    A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately as stand-alone pieces, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession.

  6. Sanjo (music) - Wikipedia

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    Sanjo (Korean: 산조), literally meaning 'scattered melodies', is a style of traditional Korean music, involving an instrumental solo accompanied by drumming on the janggu, an hourglass-shaped drum. The art of sanjo is a real crystallization of traditional Korean melody and rhythm which may have been handed down by rote generation after ...

  7. Music for 18 Musicians - Wikipedia

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    Music for 18 Musicians is a work of minimalist music composed by Steve Reich during 1974–1976. Its world premiere was on April 24, 1976, at The Town Hall in the Midtown Manhattan Theater District. Following this, a recording of the piece was released on the ECM New Series in 1978.

  8. Steps and skips - Wikipedia

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    In music, a step, or conjunct motion, [1] is the difference in pitch between two consecutive notes of a musical scale. In other words, it is the interval between two consecutive scale degrees . Any larger interval is called a skip (also called a leap ), or disjunct motion .

  9. Contrapuntal motion - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, contrapuntal motion is the general movement of two or more melodic lines with respect to each other. [1] In traditional four-part harmony, it is important that lines maintain their independence, an effect which can be achieved by the judicious use of the four types of contrapuntal motion: parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion, and oblique motion.