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| x Part song | Three Shakespeare Songs |
A part song (or part-song) is a form of choral music which consists of a secular song which has been written or arranged for several vocal parts. Usually the arrangement is homophonic, with the highest part carries the melody with the other voices...
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| Lay a garland | |||||
| x Pasodoble |
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Amparito Roca |
Pasodoble (literal meaning in Spanish: double-step) is a typical Spanish march-like musical style as well as the corresponding dance style danced by a couple. It is the type of music typically played in bullfights during the bullfighters' entrance...
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| España Cañí | |||||
| El gato montes | |||||
| x Aria | Habanera |
An aria (Italian for air; plural: arie or arias in common usage) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice...
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| Nessun dorma | |||||
| Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen | |||||
| Largo al factotum | |||||
| Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | |||||
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| x Barcarolle |
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Barcarolle Op. 60 in F-sharp Major |
A barcarolle (from French; also Italian barcarola, barcarole; sometimes barcolle) is a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of music composed in that style. In classical music, two of the most famous barcarolles are those by Jacques...
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| x Canzone Napoletana |
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Santa Lucia |
Canzone Napoletana, sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, and expressed in familiar genres such as the lover's...
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| 'O Sole Mio | |||||
| Funiculì, Funiculà | |||||
| x Canon |
In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g. quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the...
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| x Ricercar |
A ricercar (or ricercare, recercar; the terms are interchangeable) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key...
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| x Bourrée |
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Bourrée in E minor |
This article is about various types of dance and music called "bourrée".
The bourrée is a dance of French origin common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century. It is danced in quick double time, somewhat resembling the gavotte. The main...
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| Bourrée fantasque | |||||
| x Prelude | Ariadne musica |
A prelude (Germ. Präludium or Vorspiel; Lat. praeludium; Fr. Prélude; It. Preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. While, during the Baroque Age, for example, it may have served as an introduction to...
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| Preludes Op. 28 | |||||
| Ten Preludes, Op. 23 | |||||
| Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32 | |||||
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| x Piano quartet | Quatuor pour la fin du temps |
A piano quartet is a musical ensemble consisting of a piano and three other instruments, or a piece written for such a group. In classical music, those other instruments are usually a string trio, that is a violin, viola and cello.
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| Piano Quartet No. 2 | |||||
| Piano Quartet No. 1 | |||||
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| x Quodlibet | Quodlibet, BWV 524 |
A quodlibet is a piece of music combining several different melodies, usually popular tunes, in counterpoint and often a light-hearted, humorous manner. The term is Latin, meaning "whatever" or literally, "what pleases." There are three main types...
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| x Rhapsody | Rapsodie espagnole |
A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in...
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| Hungarian Rhapsodies | |||||
| Première Rhapsodie | |||||
| España | |||||
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| x Just intonation |
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Chanting the Light of Foresight |
In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series...
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| Suite for Microtonal Piano | |||||
| Sonata for Microtonal Piano | |||||
| Double Concerto | |||||
| Stimmung | |||||
| x Serenade |
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Serenade to Music |
In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is, in its most general sense, a musical composition, and/or performance, in someone's honor. Serenades are typically calm, light music. In fact, the word Serenade is derived from the word sereno, which...
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| Serenade for Strings | |||||
| Serenade for Strings | |||||
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| Serenade for string orchestra, Op.20 | |||||
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| x Siciliana |
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The siciliana or siciliano is a musical style or genre often included as a movement within larger pieces of music starting in the Baroque period. It is in a slow 6/8 or 12/8 time with lilting rhythms making it somewhat resemble a slow jig, and is...
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| x Sinfonietta | Sinfonietta |
A sinfonietta is a work for orchestra that is generally considered to be smaller in scope than a full symphony. The word is sometimes also used to refer to small symphonic ensembles which are considered too large to be chamber ensembles.
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| x Ballet |
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The Nutcracker |
Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a compliment to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it. The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a...
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| Swan Lake | |||||
| The Sleeping Beauty | |||||
| Romeo and Juliet | |||||
| Franca Florio, regina di Palermo | |||||
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| x Sonata da camera | Sonata |
Sonata da Camera is literally translated to mean 'Chamber Sonata' and is used to describe a group of instrumental pieces set into three or four different movements, beginning with a Prelude, or small Sonata, acting as an introduction for the...
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| x Sonata da chiesa | Sonata |
Sonata da chiesa (Italian: Church sonata) is an instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period, generally consisting of four movements. More than one melody was often used, and the movements were ordered slow–fast–slow–fast with respect to...
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| x Sonatina | Sonatina | Sonata |
A sonatina is literally a small sonata. As a musical term, sonatina has no single strict definition; it is rather a title applied by the composer to a piece that is in basic sonata form, but is shorter, lighter in character, or more elementary...
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| Violin Sonatina | |||||
| Sonatina in F | |||||
| Sonatina in G major | |||||
| x Choral music | Schicksalslied | ||||
| x Motet |
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Spem in alium nunquam habui |
In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.
The name comes either from the Latin movere, ("to move") or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval...
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| Nuper rosarum flores | |||||
| Jesu, meine Freude | |||||
| x Étude |
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Trois Nouvelles Études |
An étude (a French word meaning study), is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The tradition of writing etudes...
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| Grandes Etudes de Paganini | |||||
| Transcendental Etudes | |||||
| Studies on Chopin's Etudes | |||||
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| x Cello Etudes | Ten American Cello Etudes |
Cello etudes (or studies) are pieces of music written for the solo cello that zero in on specific techniques. Cello etudes are most often written by cellists to help other cellists improve their playing ability. Music that is written for performance...
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| x Hymn | Lead, Kindly Light | ||||
| x Hymn | All People That on Earth do Dwell |
A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word hymn derives from Greek ὕμνος ...
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| Abide With Me | |||||
| x Art song | Deux Poèmes de Lord Byron |
An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano or orchestral accompaniment. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the genre of such songs.
Although categorizing a piece of vocal music as art song...
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| L'Adieu du Cavalier | |||||
| x Toccata | Toccata pour deux pianos |
Toccata (from Italian toccare, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal...
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| Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 | |||||
| Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 | |||||
| x Intermezzo | Intermezzo pour deux pianos |
In music, an intermezzo (Italian, plural: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term has...
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| x Song |
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Magnetopause |
A song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad. (exceptions would be a cappella songs). The lyrics of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, although they may be...
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| Sex Digte af Henrik Ibsen | |||||
| Fem Digte af John Paulsen | |||||
| Ingrids Vise (Og Roeven Laa under Birkerod) | |||||
| x Harpsichord concerto | Concert champêtre | ||||
| x Musical form |
The term musical form is often loosely used to refer to particular musical genres or styles (Scholes 1977), which may be determined by factors such as harmonic language, typical rhythms, types of musical instrument used as well as historical and...
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| x String sextet | Sextet No. 1 |
In classical music, a string sextet is a composition written for six string instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such a composition. Most string sextets have been written for an ensemble consisting of two violins, two violas, and two...
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| String Sextet | |||||
| String Sextet No. 2 | |||||
| Souvenir de Florence | |||||
| x Voice | Catherine Rodriguez |
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. The term, however, is used to refer to two separate concepts. Voicing can refer to the...
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| x Digital download | I Learned From You |
Paid download (also known as a digital download or a digital single) is an official and legal music file, available for purchase through an online store. Popular examples of online music stores that sell digital singles and albums include the iTunes...
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| x Harp concerto | Harp Concerto | ||||
