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A musical piece containing works by different composers Ripieno concerto: padding concert: A form of Baroque concerto with no solo parts Serenata: Serenade: 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 ...
Ernst Krenek: Potpourri, Op. 54 for symphony orchestra; John Philip Sousa: Carmen grand potpourri de concert; Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine Potpourri; André Rieu: Opera Potpourri (2003) Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Potpourri Op. 94 (Fantasie) for Viola and Orchestra; Karol Kurpinski: Potpourri in D minor for Piano Solo (1822 ca.) The Beatles: The ...
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Quotation from Grove Music: Potpourri (Fr.). From its original application to a jar, literally a ‘rotten pot’, in which were kept miscellaneous spices, vegetables and so on, the term came to be applied to a musical composition which was a similar hotch potch of tunes from a pre-existing source or sources.
Numerous percussion instruments are a part of Italian folk music, including wood blocks, bells, castanets, drums. Several regions have their own distinct form of rattle, including the raganella cog rattle and the Calabrian conocchie, a spinning or shepherd's staff with permanently attached seed rattles with ritual fertility significance.
Potpourri is a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant material. Potpourri or Pot-Pourri may also refer to: Pot-Pourri (group) , an Australian opera/musical theatre group
The Italian overture is a piece of orchestral music which opened several operas, oratorios and other large-scale works in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. An Italian overture typically has a three- movement structure [ 1 ] – the outer movements are quick, the middle movement is slow.
A fantasia (Italian: [fantaˈziːa]; also English: fantasy, fancy, fantazy, phantasy, German: Fantasie, Phantasie, French: fantaisie) is a musical composition with roots in improvisation. The fantasia, like the impromptu, seldom follows the textbook rules of any strict musical form.