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  2. Elements of music - Wikipedia

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    For example, intensional definitions list aspects or elements that make up their subject. Some definitions refer to music as a score, or a composition: [ 18 ] [ 7 ] [ 19 ] music can be read as well as heard, and a piece of music written but never played is a piece of music notwithstanding.

  3. Viewpoints - Wikipedia

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    The practice involves deconstructing the physical stage and physical performance into its six Materials of composition: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story. These six elements have existed historically within a rigid hierarchy which gives prevalence to story and emotion in theatre, and shape and movement in dance.

  4. Outline of dance - Wikipedia

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    Dance categories are not mutually exclusive. For example, tango is traditionally a partner dance. While it is mostly social dance, its ballroom form may be competitive dance, as in DanceSport. At the same time it is enjoyed as performance dance, whereby it may well be a solo dance. List of dances. List of dance style categories

  5. Choreography - Wikipedia

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    In dance, choreography is also known as dance choreography or dance composition. Choreography is also used in a variety of other fields, including opera , cheerleading , theatre , marching band , synchronized swimming , cinematography , ice skating , [ 7 ] gymnastics , fashion shows , show choir , cardistry , video game production, and animated ...

  6. Dance music - Wikipedia

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    Dance music works often bear the name of the corresponding dance, e.g. waltzes, the tango, the bolero, the can-can, minuets, salsa, various kinds of jigs and the breakdown. Other dance forms include contradance, the merengue (Dominican Republic), and the cha-cha-cha. Often it is difficult to know whether the name of the music came first or the ...

  7. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  8. Dance theory - Wikipedia

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    As dance is a ubiquitous element of culture, dance theory attempts to determine the instinctual nature of dance, and what makes various movements appear natural or forced. It is possible, through the writing and drawing of dances within a sphere, to understand that all dance is based on natural body movements, that is the moving of joints limbs ...

  9. Musical composition - Wikipedia

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    Since the invention of sound recording, a classical piece or popular song may exist as a recording.If music is composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory (the norm for instrumental soloists in concerto performances and singers in opera shows and art song recitals), by reading written musical notation (the norm in large ensembles, such as orchestras, concert bands and ...