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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    A musical piece containing works by different composers Ripieno concerto: padding concert: A form of Baroque concerto with no solo parts Serenata: Serenade: A song or composition in someone's honour. Originally, a musical greeting performed for a lover Soggetto cavato: carved subject: A musical cryptogram, using coded syllables as a basis for ...

  3. Potpourri (music) - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Krenek: Potpourri, Op. 54 for symphony orchestra; John Philip Sousa: Carmen grand potpourri de concert; Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine Potpourri; André Rieu: Opera Potpourri (2003) Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Potpourri Op. 94 (Fantasie) for Viola and Orchestra; Karol Kurpinski: Potpourri in D minor for Piano Solo (1822 ca.) The Beatles: The ...

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    octave above the treble staff, G 5 to G 6 [7] in altissimo Octave above the in alt octave, G 6 to G 7 in modo di In the art of, in the style of in stand An instruction to brass players to direct the bell of their instrument into the music stand, instead of up and toward the audience, thus muting the sound but without changing the timbre as a ...

  5. Talk:List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    1 issimo does not mean very. 1 comment. ... 1 comment. 4 Musical Instuments. 1 comment. 5 List. 1 comment. 6 Why Italian terms are used in music. 1 comment. 7 ...

  6. Glossary of Italian music - Wikipedia

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    Italian music terminology consists of words and phrases used in the discussion of the music of Italy. Some Italian music terms are derived from the common Italian language. Others come from Spanish, or Neapolitan, Sicilian, Sardinian or other regional languages of Italy. The terms listed here describe a genre, song form, dance, instrument ...

  7. Music of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Numerous percussion instruments are a part of Italian folk music, including wood blocks, bells, castanets, drums. Several regions have their own distinct form of rattle, including the raganella cog rattle and the Calabrian conocchie, a spinning or shepherd's staff with permanently attached seed rattles with ritual fertility significance.

  8. Intonarumori - Wikipedia

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    Festival, [6] Golan Levin and Spike Wolff, felt the time was ripe for a presentation of noise and decided to reconstruct the forgotten intonarumori instruments for the festival. [7] Carl Bajandas, a sculptor, an instrument builder, took the lead and built 10 intonarumori instruments. Meanwhile, experimental composer, music technologist John ...

  9. Banda (opera) - Wikipedia

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    Composers wrote music on two staves, and the bandmaster added clarinets in the upper register and brass in the middle and lower. At the Paris Opera in the mid-nineteenth century, Adolphe Sax used only brass instruments, many of them saxhorns. [3] The banda was much like a military band.