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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.

  3. Subject (music) - Wikipedia

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    Music based on a single theme is called monothematic, while music based on several themes is called polythematic. Most fugues are monothematic and most pieces in sonata form are polythematic. [ 8 ] In the exposition of a fugue, the principal theme (usually called the subject ) is announced successively in each voice – sometimes in a ...

  4. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    This glossary includes terms for musical instruments, playing or singing techniques, amplifiers, effects units, sound reinforcement equipment, and recording gear and techniques which are widely used in jazz and popular music. Most of the terms are in English, but in some cases, terms from other languages are encountered (e.g. to do an "encore ...

  5. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    Some definitions refer to music as a score, or a composition: [18] [7] [19] music can be read as well as heard, and a piece of music written but never played is a piece of music notwithstanding. According to Edward E. Gordon the process of reading music , at least for trained musicians, involves a process, called "inner hearing" or "audiation ...

  6. Category:Musical terminology - Wikipedia

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

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    A musical piece containing works by different composers Ripieno concerto: padding concert: A form of Baroque concerto with no solo parts Serenata: Serenade: A song or composition in someone's honour. Originally, a musical greeting performed for a lover Soggetto cavato: carved subject: A musical cryptogram, using coded syllables as a basis for ...

  8. Exposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    The term is most widely used [4] as an analytical convenience to denote a portion of a movement identified as an example of classical tonal sonata form. The exposition typically establishes the music's tonic key, and then modulates to, and ends in, the dominant. [5] If the exposition starts in a minor key, it typically modulates to the relative ...

  9. Recapitulation (music) - Wikipedia

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    This material is most often recapitulated in the tonic key of the movement, in such a way that it reaffirms that key as the movement's home key. In some sonata form movements, the recapitulation presents a straightforward image of the movement's exposition.