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  2. Canon (hymnography) - Wikipedia

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    Between Ode VI and Ode VII, a vestigal kontakion is sung with only its prooimion, or initial stanza, and the first oikos or strophe. If an akathist is to be chanted in conjunction with a canon, it is inserted after Ode VI. The typical order for a full canon, as currently, in most places, chanted at matins is as follows: Ode I; Ode III; Little ...

  3. Music manuscript - Wikipedia

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    This music manuscript was written by Johann Sebastian Bach and contains the Gavotte from his French Suite No. 5 (BWV 816). Music manuscripts are handwritten sources of music. Generally speaking, they can be written on paper or parchment. If the manuscript contains the composer's handwriting it is called an autograph.

  4. List of compositions by John Cage - Wikipedia

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    Music for _____, seventeen parts with no score, for a variable chamber ensemble (1984–87) Essay (Writing through the Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"), for computer-generated tapes (1987–88) Two, for flute and piano (April 1987) Organ 2 /ASLSP, for organ (June 1987) One, for piano (December 1987)

  5. William Collins (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Blue Heritage Plaque marking William Collins' birthplace in Chichester. William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759) was an English poet.Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century.

  6. Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The nightingale's song within the poem is connected to the art of music in a way that the urn in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is connected to the art of sculpture. As such, the nightingale would represent an enchanting presence and, unlike the urn, is directly connected to nature. As natural music, the song is for beauty and lacks a message of truth.

  7. Invention (musical composition) - Wikipedia

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    In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) in two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias. Some modern publishers call them "three-part inventions" to avoid confusion with symphonies.)

  8. A Choral Fantasia (Holst) - Wikipedia

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    The work was written in 1930 for the Three Choirs Festival by request of organist Herbert Sumsion, who wanted a work involving a concertante organ part. [1] Holst originally conceived the piece as an Organ Concerto but later changed the concept and incorporated the poem Ode to Music by his friend Robert Bridges, originally written for the Purcell bicentenary celebrations in 1895.

  9. List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi - Wikipedia

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    Giuseppe Verdi. The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).. The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.