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  2. Musical composition - Wikipedia

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    A musical composition may be in the form of a notated copy (for example sheet music) or in the form of a phonorecord (for example cassette tape, LP, or CD). Sending a musical composition in the form of a phonorecord does not necessarily mean that there is a claim to copyright in the sound recording." [10]

  3. Musical setting - Wikipedia

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    The literary work is said to be set, or adapted, to music. Musical settings include choral music and other vocal music. [1] A musical setting is made to particular words, such as poems. [2] By contrast, a musical arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work, rather than a brand new piece of music. An arrangement ...

  4. List of polytonal pieces - Wikipedia

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    List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.. Samuel Barber. Symphony No. 2 (1944) [citation needed]; Béla Bartók. Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-76) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of E ♭ dorian and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian [1]

  5. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    Arabesque – Composition with a flowing and ornate style, inspired by Arabic architecture. Art song – Musical setting of a poem or text usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment. Lied – German art song. Mélodie – French art song. Song cycle – Group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity.

  6. Character piece - Wikipedia

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    Large sets of many individual character pieces, intended to be played as a single piece of music, were not uncommon; Schumann's many works of this form (including Kreisleriana and Carnaval) are the best known examples. In the late 19th and twentieth centuries, as piano music became ambitious and larger in scale, the scope of what a character ...

  7. Category:Musical compositions - Wikipedia

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  8. List of pieces that use the whole-tone scale - Wikipedia

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    The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520067479. Antokoletz, Elliott. 2004. Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious. Oxford and New York: Oxford University ...

  9. Quodlibet - Wikipedia

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    The quodlibet took on additional functions between the beginning and middle of the 19th century, when it became known as the potpourri and the musical switch.In these forms, the quodlibet would often feature anywhere from six to fifty or more consecutive "quotations"; the distinct incongruity between words and music served as a potent source of parody and entertainment. [4]