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  2. Repetition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated. It may be called restatement , such as the restatement of a theme . While it plays a role in all music, with noise and musical tones lying along a spectrum from irregular to periodic sounds, it is especially prominent in specific styles.

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A musical form in which a certain section returns repeatedly, interspersed with other sections: ABACA is a typical structure or ABACABA roulade (Fr.) A rolling (i.e. a florid vocal phrase) rubato Stolen, robbed (i.e. flexible in tempo), applied to notes within a musical phrase for expressive effect ruhig (Ger.) Calm, peaceful run

  4. Phrase (music) - Wikipedia

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    Period built of two five-bar phrases in Haydn's Feldpartita in B ♭, Hob. II:12. [1] Diagram of a period consisting of two phrases [2] [3] [4]. In music theory, a phrase (Greek: φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, [5] built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

  5. Ostinato - Wikipedia

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    Rikky Rooksby [29] states: "A riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low on the guitar, which focuses much of the energy and excitement of a rock song." In jazz and R&B, riffs are often used as the starting point for longer compositions.

  6. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    The song "Swinging the Alphabet" is sung by The Three Stooges in their short film Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938). It is the only full-length song performed by the Stooges in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack. The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:

  7. Riff (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A riff is an example of ostinato, a short, repeated musical phrase. Riff, RIFF, The 'Riff, or Riffs may also refer to: Acronyms. Film festivals. ...

  8. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence. Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. [3] Giuseppe Cambini—a composer, violinist, and music teacher of the Classical period—had this to say about bowed string instruments, specifically violin ...

  9. BACH motif - Wikipedia

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    In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is named H and the B flat named B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name. One of the most frequently occurring examples of a musical cryptogram , the motif has been used by countless composers, especially after the Bach Revival in the first half of the 19th century.