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  2. Cantabile - Wikipedia

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    Cantabile [kanˈtaːbile] is a term in music meaning to perform in a singing style. The word is taken from the Italian language and literally means "singable" or "songlike". [1] In instrumental music, it is a particular style of playing designed to imitate the human voice. The German-language equivalent to cantabile is gesangvoll. [2]

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

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    Definition Campana: bell: A bell used in an orchestra; also campane "bells" Cornetto: little horn: An old woodwind instrument Fagotto: bundle: A bassoon, a woodwind instrument played with a double reed Orchestra: orchestra, orig. Greek orkesthai "dance" An ensemble of instruments Piano(forte) soft-loud: A keyboard instrument Piccolo: little: A ...

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In piano music (notably in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata), senza sordini or senza sordina (or some variant) is sometimes used to mean keep the sustain pedal depressed, since the sustain pedal lifts the dampers off the strings, with the effect that all notes are sustained indefinitely. sordino See sordina. sortita

  5. Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    Musicologists have speculated on whether the Pathétique may have been inspired by Mozart's piano sonata K. 457, since both compositions are in C minor and have three very similar movements. The second movement, "Adagio cantabile", especially, makes use of a theme remarkably similar to one in the spacious second movement of Mozart's sonata. [8]

  6. Consolations (Liszt) - Wikipedia

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    The Consolations, S. 172, consist of six solo compositions for the piano. [21] [22] Andante con moto (E major) Un poco più mosso (E major) Lento placido (D ♭ major) Quasi Adagio (D ♭ major) Andantino (E major) Allegretto sempre cantabile (E major) Composed between 1849 and 1850, [7] they are Liszt's second version of the Consolations.

  7. Tempo - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a song says 'medium shuffle', the drummer plays a shuffle drum pattern; if it says 'fast boogie-woogie', the piano player plays a boogie-woogie bassline. 'Show tempo', a term used since the early days of vaudeville , describes the traditionally brisk tempo (usually 160–170 bpm) of opening songs in stage revues and musicals.

  8. Bagatelles, Op. 119 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven uses less conventional musical ideas that also appear in his late piano sonatas, such as progressive rhythmic diminution with sustained trills. [9] C major. Moderato cantabile: The eighth bagatelle's structure is AB, with each part having one repeat. [9] A minor. Vivace moderato: This bagatelle is a waltz, and uses Ternary form ...

  9. Bagatelles, Op. 126 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig van Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126 for solo piano were published late in his career, in the year 1825. [1] Beethoven dedicated them to his brother Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven (1776–1848), [2] and wrote to his publisher, Schott Music, that the Opus 126 Bagatelles "are probably the best I've written". [3]