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  2. Dynamics (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail.However, dynamics markings require interpretation by the performer depending on the musical context: a specific marking may correspond to a different volume between pieces or even sections of one piece.

  3. Pianissimo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Pianissimo is a term in music dynamics meaning "to be played very softly." Pianissimo may also refer to: Pianissimo, a 1990 album by Suzanne Ciani; Pianissimo, a part of the Requiem trilogy by Virgin Black

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Schools/Welcome/Arts and Music ...

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    Art is a diverse range of (and products of) human activities involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.. In the perspective of the history of art, artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind: from early pre-historic art to contemporary art; however, some theorists feel that the typical concept of "artistic ...

  5. Wikipedia:Contents/Culture and the arts - Wikipedia

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    Culture includes the elements that characterize a particular peoples' way of life. The arts – vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. The arts encompasses visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts. Literature – the art of written works.

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    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 mute would [9] incalzando Getting faster and louder innig (Ger.) Intimate, heartfelt insistendo Insistently ...

  7. Wikipedia:Contents/Culture and the arts/Intro - Wikipedia

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    The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art," which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompasses visual arts, literary arts and the performing artsmusic, theatre, dance, spoken word and film, among others.

  8. Musical historicism - Wikipedia

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    The term "historicism" has acquired various, sometimes confusing meanings over a wide range of disciplines. The British philosopher Karl Popper, who disliked modern music and strongly preferred the works of Bach, Mozart, and Schubert, spoke of "the failure of the historicist propaganda for the modern in music."

  9. Art history - Wikipedia

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    Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...