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The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...
En la noche dichosa En secreto, que nadie me veia, Ni yo miraba cosa, Sin otra luz, y guia, Sino la que en el corazón ardia. Aquesta me guiaba Más cierto que la luz del mediodia, A donde me esperaba, Quien yo bien me sabia, En parte, donde nadie parecia. ¡Oh noche que guiaste, Oh noche amable más que el alborada; Oh noche que juntaste Amado ...
à la (Fr.) in the style of... a battuta Return to normal tempo after a deviation. Not recommended in string parts, due to possible confusion with battuto (qv.); use a tempo, which means the same thing a bene placito Up to the performer a cappella lit. "in a chapel"; vocal parts only, without instrumental accompaniment a capriccio
Musica enchiriadis is an anonymous musical treatise of the 9th century. It is the first surviving attempt to set up a system of rules for polyphony in western art music. The treatise was once attributed to Hucbald, but this is no longer accepted. [1]
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.
Though the word may be historically of Spanish origin, its use in this context is of indigenous Cuban origin. [7] These are excerpts from reference sources, in date order: A Latin American carol "Convidando esta la noche" dates from at least the mid 17th century and both mentions and is a guaracha.
Some definitions refer to music as a score, or a composition: [18] [7] [19] music can be read as well as heard, and a piece of music written but never played is a piece of music notwithstanding. According to Edward E. Gordon the process of reading music , at least for trained musicians, involves a process, called "inner hearing" or "audiation ...
The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples, quizzes and simulations; The Music-Web Music Encyclopedia, for musicians, composers and music lovers; Dolmetsch free online music dictionary, complete, with references to a list of specialised music dictionaries (by continent, by instrument, by genre, etc.)