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  2. 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 ...

  3. Timeline of musical events - Wikipedia

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    Boards of Canada release Music Has the Right to Children; Tortoise release TNT; Autechre releases LP5; Don Caballero releases What Burns Never Returns; Amon Tobin releases Permutation; Dirty Three release Ocean Songs; Gas releases Zauberberg and Königsforst; Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion release "The Prayer" from the animated Warner Bros ...

  4. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    It can range from simple melodies to complex pieces for various instruments or voices. Classical music has many qualities, or aspects, and compositions may differ in each of them, including their purpose, genre, tonality, key, form, texture, tempo, metre, rhythm, etc., providing rich variety to the art form...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    Musical form unfolds over time through the expansion and development of these ideas. In tonal harmony, form is articulated primarily through cadences, phrases, and periods. [2] "Form refers to the larger shape of the composition. Form in music is the result of the interaction of the four structural elements," of sound, harmony, melody, and ...

  7. Development of musical theatre - Wikipedia

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    A William Hogarth painting based on The Beggar's Opera (c. 1728), a key antecedent of musical theatre. Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

  8. Rhapsody (music) - Wikipedia

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    A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour, and tonality.An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations.

  9. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    Children's music; Computer music. Hyperpop; Internet meme; Dance music. Slow dance; Drug use in music; Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others; Independent music. Multi-instrumentalist. A ...