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  2. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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    The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin) [1] is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. [1] It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale steps below the marked note and "slide" upward—that is, move stepwise diatonically between the initial and ...

  3. Monody - Wikipedia

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    In music, monody refers to a solo vocal style distinguished by having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment. Although such music is found in various cultures throughout history, the term is specifically applied to Italian song of the early 17th century, particularly the period from about 1600 to 1640.

  4. Fictional music - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, fictional music can be found in fantasy literature. [9] Music and song are mentioned throughout Tolkien's legendarium, in the Tolkien scholar Bradford Lee Eden's view "most obviously" in the Ainulindalë ("Music of the Ainur", the creation account in said legendarium), but also importantly in the culture of the Elves, the Hobbits, and ...

  5. PowerPoint karaoke - Wikipedia

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    The term "PowerPoint karaoke" is also sometimes derisively used to refer to presenters who face the screen where their PowerPoint slides are being projected and proceed to read them, boring and effectively ignoring their audience. Spanish conceptual artist Rubén Grilo used "PowerPoint Karaoke" as a title for a show at MARCO in June 2011.

  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. Post-romanticism - Wikipedia

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    Post-romanticism in music refers to composers who wrote classical symphonies, operas, and songs in transitional style that constituted a blend of late romantic and early modernist musical languages. Arthur Berger described the mysticism of La Jeune France as post-Romanticism rather than neo-Romanticism .

  8. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Musical artist Literary work Author Comments Citations An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  9. Slide - Wikipedia

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    Slide (musical ornament), a musical embellishment found particularly in Baroque music; Slide (tune type), a tune type in Irish traditional music, common to the Sliabh Luachra area; Slide, a 1970s disco side project of Rod McKuen's; The Slide, a jukebox musical using songs by The Beautiful South; Bent note, or slide, articulation; Glissando, or ...