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  2. Repetition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Repeat sign. 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. Leitmotif - Wikipedia

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    The use of characteristic, short, recurring motifs in orchestral music can be traced back to the early seventeenth century, such as L'Orfeo by Monteverdi.In French opera of the late eighteenth century (such as the works of Gluck, Grétry and Méhul), "reminiscence motif" can be identified, which may recur at a significant juncture in the plot to establish an association with earlier events.

  4. Motif (music) - Wikipedia

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    A phrase originally presented as a motif may become a figure which accompanies another melody, as in the second movement of Claude Debussy's String Quartet (1893). [8] Play ⓘ White would classify the accompaniment as motivic material since it was, "derived from an important motive stated earlier".

  5. 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 ...

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A recurring passage rolled chord See Arpeggio rondo 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 ...

  7. Figure (music) - Wikipedia

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    A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring. It may have melodic pitch , harmonic progression , and rhythmic meter . The 1964 Grove's Dictionary defines the figure as "the exact counterpart of the German 'motiv' and the French 'motif ' ": it produces a "single complete and distinct ...

  8. Timothée Chalamet's 'SNL' return is complete with recurring ...

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    The actor was back to promote his upcoming film, Wonka, and did so with a mix of musical numbers, fresh skits and a couple recurring characters from his first time on the SNL stage back in 2020.

  9. Repeat sign - Wikipedia

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    In music, a repeat sign is a sign that indicates a section should be repeated. If the piece has one repeat sign alone, then that means to repeat from the beginning, and then continue on (or stop, if the sign appears at the end of the piece). A corresponding sign facing the other way indicates where the repeat is to begin.