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In popular music and traditional music, the accompaniment parts typically provide the "beat" for the music and outline the chord progression of the song or instrumental piece. The accompaniment for a vocal melody or instrumental solo can be played by a single musician playing an instrument such as piano, pipe organ, or guitar.
The form was further developed from the Kyoho to the Horeki period (1716–1764), and nagauta became the main form of accompaniment. [9] The first actor to perfect the genre was Segawa Kikunojo I (c. 1693–1749), [7] considered an excellent dancer and the best onnagata in Edo during the first half of the 18th century. [10]
A traditional folk dance from the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, performed during festivals and celebrations. Features dynamic movements and distinctive local musical accompaniment. Angura Underground (アングラ) theater movement that emerged in Japan in the 1960s as an experimental and avant-garde form of theater.
In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle, usually a performance upon a stage by virtuoso dancers. It often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or it may interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed and performed in a theatre setting but it is not a requirement.
Skočná – Lively Czech dance form, often performed at a fast tempo. Sousedská – Traditional Czech dance in a moderate triple meter. Špacírka – Czech promenade or strolling dance, characterized by its leisurely pace. Verbunkos – Hungarian folk dance characterized by distinctive, syncopated rhythms and the alternation of slow and fast ...
The first mass-marketed, affordable synthesizer keyboard in the 1980s, which became very popular in pop and dance music of that era. The DX-7 used FM synthesis to create new electronic sounds. There were a number of synths before the DX-7, like the Fairlight CMI, but they were so expensive that they were owned by very few people.