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  2. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Making each note brief and detached; the opposite of legato. In musical notation, a small dot under or over the head of the note indicates that it is to be articulated as staccato. stanza A verse of a song stem Vertical line that is directly connected to the [note] head stentando or stentato (sten. or stent.)

  3. List of backmasked messages - Wikipedia

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    "Stimulate" "I'm not here to save you / I'm only here for the ride / So let me entertain you / And everything will be fine." [36] At the end of the track. Eurythmics "This City Never Sleeps" "I enjoyed making that, er, record. Very good, very good" At the end of the song, after some seconds of silence. [37] Filter "The 4th"

  4. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    The song "Swinging the Alphabet" is sung by The Three Stooges in their short film Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938). It is the only full-length song performed by the Stooges in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack. The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:

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

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    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 the composition Sonata: sounded: A composition for one or two instruments in sonata form: Verismo: realism: A genre of operas with scenarios based on ...

  6. Ribaldry - Wikipedia

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    The private and public versions of the song contain vastly different words. More recent works like Candy , Barbarella , L'Infermiera , the comedic works of Russ Meyer , Little Annie Fanny and John Barth 's The Sot-Weed Factor are probably better classified as ribaldry than as either pornography or erotica.

  7. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    This makes the song feel half as slow, even though the chords take the same length of time to play. A song that takes 60 seconds to play in regular feel still takes 60 seconds in half-time feel. However, if a song actually went into half time, say, for a repeat, a 60-second song would last for 120 seconds. See also double-time feel.

  8. The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, [4] in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you don't know what to say". The Sherman Brothers , who wrote the Mary Poppins song, have given several conflicting explanations for the word's origin, in one instance claiming to have coined it themselves ...

  9. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...