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  2. 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 ...

  3. History of music - Wikipedia

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    "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."

  4. List of prominent operas - Wikipedia

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    A mythological opera with lyrical, pastoral music. [206] 1938 Julietta (Bohuslav Martinů). This dreamlike work set in a town where people have lost their memory is "Martinu's operatic masterpiece". [207] 1938 Mathis der Maler (Hindemith). Hindemith's most highly regarded opera is a parable about an artist surviving in a time of crisis ...

  5. Music history - Wikipedia

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    Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical ...

  6. Musical literacy - Wikipedia

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    Musical literacy is the reading, writing, and playing of music, as well an understanding of cultural practice and historical and social contexts.. Music literacy and music education are frequently talked about relationally and causatively, however, they are not interchangeable terms, as complete musical literacy also concerns an understanding of the diverse practices involved in teaching music ...

  7. Historical figure - Wikipedia

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    Using historical figures in marketing communications and in branding is a new area of marketing research but historical figures’ names were used to promote products as early as in the Middle Ages. [46] Historical figure brand is using famous historical person in branding, for instance Mozartkugel, Chopin (vodka) or Café Einstein.

  8. Music - Wikipedia

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    Romantic composers grew in idiosyncrasy, and went further in the syncretism of exploring different art-forms in a musical context, (such as literature), history (historical figures and legends), or nature itself. Romantic love or longing was a prevalent theme in many works composed during this period.

  9. Musicology - Wikipedia

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    Music history or historical musicology is concerned with the composition, performance, reception and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of music are for example concerned with a composer's life and works, the developments of styles and genres (such as baroque concertos), the social function of music for a particular group of ...