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Symbol at the very end of a staff of music which indicates the pitch for the first note of the next line as a warning of what is to come. The custos was commonly used in handwritten Renaissance and typeset Baroque music. cut time Same as the meter 2 2: two half-note (minim) beats per measure. Notated and executed like common time (4
Longer ballate may be found in the form AbbaAbbaA, etc. Unlike the virelai, the two "b" lines usually have exactly the same music and only in later ballate pick up the (formerly distinctly French) first and second (open and close) endings. The term comes from the verb ballare, to dance, and the form certainly began as dance music.
A brace is used to connect two or more lines of music that are played simultaneously, usually by a single player, generally when using a grand staff. The grand staff is used for piano, harp, organ, and some pitched percussion instruments. [1] The brace is occasionally called an accolade in some old texts and can vary in design and style. Bracket
In a two-wall dance, repetitions of the sequence end alternately at the back and front walls. In other words, the dancers have effectively turned through 180 degrees during one set (half turn). The samba line dance is an example of a two-wall dance. While doing the "volte" step, the dancers turn 180 degrees to face a new wall. [citation needed]
Line dance; Lion dance; Lipothymiarikos; Liscio (Italian traditional music and dance inspired to Waltz, Polka and Mazurka) Llamerada; Locking; Long Sword; Loulouvikos; Loure (historical) Low country Dance(Southern coast,Sri Lanka) Luri dance (Iran and Iraq) Lyrical dance
The Black Crook (1866), which some historians consider the first modern musical [23] Around 1850, the French composer Hervé was experimenting with a form of comic musical theatre that came to be called opérette. [24] The best known composers of operetta were Jacques Offenbach from the 1850s to the 1870s and Johann Strauss II in the 1870s and ...
The term also describes the musical form that accompanies the dance, which subsequently developed more fully, often with a longer musical form called the minuet and trio, and was much used as a movement in the early classical symphony. While often stylized in instrumental forms, composers of the period would have been familiar with the popular ...
This nomenclature stems from the music: Most contra dance tunes have two parts (A and B), each 8 measures long, and each fitting one part of the dance. The A and B parts are each played twice in a row, hence, A1, A2, B1, B2. While the same music is generally played in, for example, parts A1 and A2, distinct choreography is followed in those parts.