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A solo steel drum player performs with the accompaniment of pre-recorded backing tracks that are being played back by the laptop on the left of the photo.. A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that ...
Mozart's Piano Sonata, K 545 opening. The right hand plays the melody, which is in the top stave. The left hand plays the accompaniment part, which is in the lower stave. In the first bar of the accompaniment part, the pianist plays a C Major chord in the left hand; this chord is arpeggiated (i.e., a chord in which the notes are played one after the other, rather than simultaneousl
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
Song Music by Lyrics by Year Notes A "Abide with Me" William Henry Monk: Henry Francis Lyte: 1953 [1] with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & Ray Charles Singers [2] "Act of Contrition" Joseph J. Leahy Traditional 1953 [1] with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & Ray Charles Singers [3] "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen: Johnny Mercer: 1958
(song) to be danced to Battaglia: battle: An instrumental or vocal piece suggesting a battle Bergamasca: from Bergamo: A peasant dance from Bergamo: Burletta: a little joke: A light comic or farcical opera Cabaletta: from copola (couplet) A two-part musical form Cadenza: falling: A florid solo at the end of a performance Cantata: sung: A piece ...
St. Louis journalist Marguerite Martyn sketched Irene and Vernon Castle dancing the maxixe in 1914.. The maxixe (Portuguese pronunciation:), occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music (often played as a subgenre of choro), that originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868, at about the same time as the tango was developing in neighbouring ...
But seeing those images and then thinking like, 'Oh wow, we're here in the ballroom and we're here about to do a dance performance.'" He continued: "In those moments, we didn't think it would be ...
The power that is provided from a preamp or mixing board is called "phantom power". cover or cover song. When a band plays a song that has been composed and recorded by another band, this is called a "cover tune"; also used as a verb (e.g. "to cover" a song by a certain band).