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  2. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    Note the use of slurs by the composer to indicate the intended phrasing. Musical phrasing is the method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression, much like when speaking English a phrase may be written identically but may be spoken differently, and is named for the interpretation of small units of ...

  3. Urtext edition - Wikipedia

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    Sample urtext music score from G. Henle Verlag, a publishing house specializing in urtext editions.The work is Mozart's Piano Sonata in A, K. 331.. An urtext edition (from German prefix ur-original) of a work of classical music is a printed version intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material.

  4. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Their popular song "Haru Mamburu" (Russian: Хару Мамбуру) is composed completely from pseudoword vocables without any meaningful text. Pseudo-Latin is sometimes used in new-age music, especially when it imitates Gregorian chant or other choral church music, e. g. "Ameno" by Era or "Adiemus" by Adiemus.

  5. Word painting - Wikipedia

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    Word painting, also known as tone painting or text painting, is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music. Historical development

  6. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  7. Prosody (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, prosody is the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung, or to set the music with regard to the ambiance of the lyrics. However, the relationship between syllables and melodic notes is just one dimension of musical prosody.

  8. Through-composed music - Wikipedia

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    The term "through-composed" is also applied to opera and musical theater to indicate a work that consists of an uninterrupted stream of music from beginning to end, as in the operas of Wagner. This stands in contrast to the practice, as for example occurs in Mozart's Italian - and German-language operas, of having a collection of songs ...

  9. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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    Hymn-style arrangement of "Adeste Fideles" in standard two-staff format (bass staff and treble staff) for mixed voices Tibetan musical score from the 19th century. Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.