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  2. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  3. Biomusicology - Wikipedia

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    Biomusicology is the study of music from a biological point of view. The term was coined by Nils L. Wallin in 1991 to encompass several branches of music psychology and musicology, including evolutionary musicology, neuromusicology, and comparative musicology.

  4. Music appreciation - Wikipedia

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    Designated form or order of a musical work. Part organization. Structure, also called musical form, distinguishes the shape of a piece of music in regard to its length, sections, and any similarities or identified repetition. There are a number of labelling procedures and identifies for musical genres with fixed ordinances and rules.

  5. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Musical analysis - Wikipedia

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    Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [2] The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to ...

  7. Biomusic - Wikipedia

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    Biomusic can also take the form of animals trained to perform specific behaviors as part of a musical performance (birds trained to sing for instance). Music from The Body is the biomusic soundtrack album to Roy Battersby's 1970 documentary film The Body , about human biology , narrated by Vanessa Redgrave and Frank Finlay .

  8. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning. [1] Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [ 2 ] and released to the public in January 2007. [ 3 ]

  9. Exposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    The term is most widely used [4] as an analytical convenience to denote a portion of a movement identified as an example of classical tonal sonata form. The exposition typically establishes the music's tonic key, and then modulates to, and ends in, the dominant. [5] If the exposition starts in a minor key, it typically modulates to the relative ...