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2. Musical composition - Wikipedia

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   Since the invention of sound recording, a classical piece or popular song may exist as a recording.If music is composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory (the norm for instrumental soloists in concerto performances and singers in opera shows and art song recitals), by reading written musical notation (the norm in large ensembles, such as orchestras, concert bands and ...

3. Oratorio - Wikipedia

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   An oratorio (Italian pronunciation: [oraˈtɔːrjo]) is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble. [1]Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters (e.g. soloists), and arias.

4. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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   Oratorio – Large composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists, typically based on a religious theme. Part song – Secular choral work, typically a cappella. Glee – English part song of respectable and artistic character and often composed for male voices only. Partita – Suite of instrumental or vocal pieces, often consisting of dance ...

5. List of compositions for piano and orchestra - Wikipedia

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   Naive and Sentimental Music (1998) Guide to Strange Places (2001) My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003) The Dharma at Big Sur, for electric violin and orchestra (2003) City Noir (2009) Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra (2012) The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2013) Saxophone Concerto (2013) Girls of the Golden West (2017 ...

6. Category:Musical compositions - Wikipedia

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   Vocal musical compositions (10 C, 14 P) W. Compositions by women composers (69 C)

7. List of compositions by George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia

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   List of incidental music by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Premiere Venue Notes 43 The Alchemist: 14 January 1710 Queen's Theatre, London Instrumental music for the revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist. An arrangement, by an anonymous composer, of music from Handel's opera Rodrigo. 44 Comus: June 1745 Ludlow Castle, Shropshire

8. Symphony - Wikipedia

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   A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements , often four, with ...

9. Colossal Baroque - Wikipedia

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   The Colossal Baroque style is a name which has been coined to describe a number of musical compositions from the 17th and 18th centuries composed in an opulent, magnificent and large-scaled style. Such works frequently make use of polychoral techniques and often feature instrumental forces considerably larger than the norm for the Baroque period.