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Solfeggietto (H 220, Wq. 117: 2) is a short solo keyboard piece in C minor composed in 1766 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. [1] Although the Solfeggietto title is widely used today, according to Powers 2002, p. 232, the work is correctly called Solfeggio, but the author provides no evidence for this.
In music, solfège (/ ˈ s ɒ l f ɛ ʒ /, French:) or solfeggio (/ s ɒ l ˈ f ɛ dʒ i oʊ /; Italian: [solˈfeddʒo]), also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a mnemonic used in teaching aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music. Solfège is a form of solmization, though the two terms are sometimes used ...
The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. Tadema Press, LondonThe book title is of second edition. The first edition was entitled 'The Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East'. {}: CS1 maint: postscript ; Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (1997), "The good, the bad and the boring", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. Oxford ...
In Chinese mythology, Ling Lun is said to have created bamboo flutes which made the sounds of many birds, including the mythical phoenix. "In this way, Ling Lun invented the five notes of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale (gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu, which is equivalent to 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in numbered musical notation or do, re, mi, sol, and la in western solfeggio) and the eight sounds ...
The piano, in turn, has become louder, richer, even mushier in sound, and, above all, less wiry and metallic. This change makes nonsense out of all those passages in eighteenth-century music where the violin and the piano play the same melody in thirds, with the violin below the piano. Both the piano and the violin are now louder, but the piano ...
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
The Rise of Music in the Ancient World East and West. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-09718-8. Sachs, Harvey (2002). Toscanini. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80137-X. Sachs, Harvey (1987). Music in Fascist Italy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-79004-8. Sassu, Pietro (1978). La musica sarda (3 LPs and booklet) (in Italian). Milano ...
Ancient music refers to the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world, succeeding the music of prehistoric societies and lasting until the post-classical era. Major centers of ancient music developed in China, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran/Persia, the Maya civilization, Mesopotamia, and Rome.