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  2. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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    Sheet music for the song "Oregon, My Oregon" Sheet music can be used as a record of, a guide to, or a means to perform, a song or piece of music. Sheet music enables instrumental performers who are able to read music notation (a pianist, orchestral instrument players, a jazz band, etc.) or singers to perform a song or piece. Music students use ...

  3. Portsmouth (instrumental) - Wikipedia

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    "Portsmouth" is a traditional English folk dance tune, similar to an Irish or Scottish hornpipe melody. It is sometimes referred to as the "Portsmouth Hornpipe". "Portsmouth" appeared in the 11th edition of John Playford's The Dancing Master in 1701.

  4. List of compositions for organ - Wikipedia

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    Hymne pour l’élévation in D major for organ, H 100 (1844) Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains in E flat major for organ, H 98 (1844) Toccata in C major for organ, H 99 (1844) Boëllmann, Léon. Suite Gothique; Nimrod Borenstein. Monologue opus 50 for solo organ (2008) Kol Nidreï opus 10 for solo organ (1996 ...

  5. Hornpipe - Wikipedia

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    There are two variations of the hornpipe dance: fast and slow. Usually, more experienced dancers will do the slow hornpipe, but younger dancers will start out with the fast hornpipe and then switch in later years. There is a change of tempo in the music, but not the dancing between these two speeds.

  6. The Sailor's Hornpipe - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Pepys referred to the dance in his diary as "The Jig of the Ship" and Captain Cook, who took a piper on at least one voyage, is noted to have ordered his men to dance the hornpipe in order to keep them in good health. [5] The dance on-ship became less common when fiddlers ceased to be included in ships' crew members.

  7. Solo (music) - Wikipedia

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    Trumpeter, bandleader and singer Louis Armstrong: as soloist.. In music, a solo (Italian for 'alone') is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

  8. Reduction (music) - Wikipedia

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    A reduction for solo piano is sometimes called a piano reduction or piano score. During opera rehearsals, a répétiteur (piano player) will typically read from a piano reduction of the opera. When a choir is learning a work scored for choir and full orchestra, the initial rehearsals will usually be done with a pianist playing a piano reduction ...

  9. Organ (music) - Wikipedia

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    Novelty instruments or various types that operate on the same principles. These pipe organs use a piano roll player or other mechanical means instead of a keyboard to play a prepared song: Orchestrion; Fairground organ (or band organ in the USA) Dutch street organ; Dance organ; The wind can also be created by using pressurized steam instead of air.