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Neume. A sample of Kýrie Eléison XI (Orbis Factor) from the Liber Usualis. Listen to it interpreted. A neume (/ njuːm /; sometimes spelled neum) [1][2][3] is the basic element of Western and some Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.
The repeating idea may be a rhythmic pattern, part of a tune, or a complete melody in itself. [3] Strictly speaking, ostinati should have exact repetition, but in common usage, the term covers repetition with variation and development , such as the alteration of an ostinato line to fit changing harmonies or keys .
A rhythmic pattern or cycle in Arabic music is called a "wazn" (Arabic: وزن; plural أوزان / awzān), literally a "measure". [1] A wazn is only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic-temporal organization including recurring measures, motifs, and meter or pulse. [2] It consists of two or more regularly recurring time segments, each ...
Tresillo (/ trɛˈsiːjoʊ / tres-EE-yoh; Spanish pronunciation: [tɾeˈsiʎo]) is a rhythmic pattern (shown below) [1][2] used in Latin American music. It is a more basic form of the rhythmic figure known as the habanera. Tresillo is the most fundamental duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and other Latin American music.
Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick:
These rhythmic modes were all in triple time and rather limited rhythm in chant to six different repeating patterns. This was a flaw seen by German music theorist Franco of Cologne and summarised as part of his treatise Ars Cantus Mensurabilis (the art of measured chant, or mensural notation ).
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 ...
Renaissance music →. v. t. e. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.