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x Orchestral suite   Holberg Suite Suite  
An orchestral suite is a suite of stylized dances for orchestra, either originally composed (like the four Orchestral Suites by Bach) or as a series of brief orchestral excerpts from a longer work, such as a ballet, opera, film score, or musical....
Peer Gynt Suites
Scythian Suite
American Suite
Orchestral Suite No. 3
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x Suite   L'Arlésienne   Orchestral suite
In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from a ballet (Nutcracker Suite), incidental music to a play (L'Arlésienne Suites),...
Pictures at an Exhibition
Fantasy Suite
Papillons
Polovetsian Dances
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x Mazurka Mazurka Mazurka in F-sharp minor    
The mazurka (in Polish, mazurek) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the second or third beat. The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow machine kujawiak, and the...
Mazurka
Mazurkas Op. 59
Mazurkas Op. 33
Mazurkas Op. 17
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x Sonata Beethoven opus 101 manuscript Sonata on the 94th Psalm   Sonata da camera
Sonata ( /səˈnɑːtə/; Italian: [soˈnaːta], pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung. The term, being vague,...
Sonata for Piano Duet Sonata da chiesa
Fantasie in C minor Sonatina
Piano Sonata Cello sonata
Piano Sonata No. 7 in E Viola sonata
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x Mass   Missa Solemnis Sacred music Cyclic mass
The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church) to music. Most Masses are...
Missa Solemnis Parody mass
Petite Messe Solennelle Paraphrase mass
Mass in B Minor
Messe solennelle
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x Requiem Prayers at the foot of the altar at a Low Mass. Messa per Rossini Sacred music  
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form...
Ein deutsches Requiem
Requiem per le vittime della mafia
Requiem of Reconciliation
World Requiem
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x Concerto Adolph Menzel Flötenkonzert Concert à quatre   Solo concerto
A concerto (from the Italian: concerto, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos) is a musical composition usually composed in three parts or movements, in which (usually) one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or...
Concerto No. 1 in E major "La primavera" [Spring] Double concerto
Concerto No. 2 in G minor "L'estate" [Summer] Triple concerto
Concerto No. 4 in F minor "L'inverno" [Winter] Concerto grosso
Concerto for Double String Orchestra Ripieno concerto
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x Piano concerto Concerto on stage Piano Concerto Concerto    
Piano Concerto
Piano Concerto
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2
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x Violin concerto   Violin Concerto Concerto  
A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through...
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto
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x Violin sonata   Violin Sonata No.9 Sonata  
A violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.
Violin Sonata No.5
Violin Sonata No. 1
Violin Sonata No. 8
Violin Sonata No. 3
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x Cello sonata   Cello Sonata Sonata  
A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for cello and piano, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven. Some of the...
Cello Sonata
Cello Sonata
Cello Sonata No. 1
Cello Sonata No.3
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x Symphony   Symphony No. 41   Choral symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle. Many symphonies are tonal works in...
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 9
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x Piano sonata Beethoven opus 101 manuscript Sonata in B minor Sonata  
A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Scarlatti, Scriabin), two movements (Beethoven, Haydn), five ...
Piano Sonata No.14
Piano Sonata No. 11
Piano Sonata No.21
Piano Sonata No.23
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x Passacaglia The first page of the autograph manuscript of the Passacaglia Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161    
The passacaglia (Italian: [pasːaˈkaʎːa], English: /pæsəˈkɑːliə/) is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used by contemporary composers. It is usually of a serious character and is often, but not always,...
Passacaglia
Passacaglia über Heidelberg
Passacaglia on DSCH
Panathenäenzug - Symphonische Etüden in Form einer Passacaglia
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x Cantata פתיחת הקנטטה "המאהב המרומה" מאת לואי ברנייה. Das klagende Lied Vocal music Chorale cantata
A cantata (literally "sung", derived from the Italian word "cantare") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple...
Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis Christmas cantata
Geist und Seele wird verwirret Passion cantata
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt Bach cantata
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
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x Triple concerto   Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra in C major Concerto  
A triple concerto is a concerto for piano trio (consisting of violin, cello and piano) and orchestra. Below is a list of concertos for piano trio and orchestra. Please see the related entries for violin concerto, cello concerto, piano concerto and...
Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, Piano and Orchestra
x Double concerto   Double Concerto Concerto  
This is a list of musical compositions for violin, cello and orchestra, ordered by surname of composer Please see the related entries for concerto, cello and cello concerto for discussion of typical forms and topics. The orchestra in each case is a...
Double Concerto in A minor
x Cello concerto   Cello Concerto Concerto  
A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments. These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike the...
Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto
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x Clarinet concerto   Clarinet Concerto Concerto  
A clarinet concerto is a piece for clarinet and orchestra (or concert band). Albert Rice has identified a work by Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli as possibly the earliest known concerto for solo clarinet; its score appears to be titled "Concerto per...
Clarinet Concerto
Clarinet Concerto
Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor
Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E-flat major
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x Flute concerto   Flute Concerto No. 1 Concerto  
A flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Some major...
Flute Concerto
Concierto pastoral
x Oboe concerto Oboj Oboe Concerto Concerto  
A number of concertos (as well as non-concerto works) have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument(s), and accompanied by string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, band, or...
Oboe Concerto
Oboe Concerto
Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra
x Bassoon concerto   Bassoon Concerto Concerto  
A bassoon concerto is a concerto for bassoon accompanied by a musical ensemble, typically orchestra. Like bassoon sonatas, bassoon concerti were relatively uncommon until the twentieth century, although there are quite a few bassoon concerti from...
Bassoon Concerto
Bassoon Concerto in F major
x Viola concerto   Viola Concerto Concerto  
A viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments, usually an orchestra or chamber music ensemble. Early examples of viola concertos include, among others, Georg Philipp Telemann's concerto in G major, and...
Viola Concerto
Viola Concerto
Der Schwanendreher
x Horn concerto   Concerto No.1 for Horn and Orchestra Concerto  
A number of concertos and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn) and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra. English-horn concertos appeared about a century later than oboe solo pieces, mostly because until halfway...
Zweites Konzert in Es-Dur für Horn und Orchester
Horn Concerto
Horn Concerto
Horn Concerto No. 1
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x String quartet The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 Tempi di quartetto Quartet (composition)  
A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical...
String Quartet
String Quartet
String Quartet
Five Aztec Gods
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x Viola sonata   Sonata Sonata  
The viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:
Viola Sonata
Viola Sonata
x Symphonic poem Strauss3 Ein Heldenleben    
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section (a movement) in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another (non-musical) source is illustrated or evoked. The term was...
Also sprach Zarathustra
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Don Juan
Don Quixote
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x Song cycle   Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Vocal music  
A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a...
Kindertotenlieder
Winterreise
Liederkreis
Les Nuits d'Été
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x Waltz Waltzmusic Fledermauss Minute Waltz    
A waltz (German: Walzer; French: Valse), is a piece of music in triple meter, most often written in time signature  3/4-beat (help·info) but sometimes in 3/8 or 3/2. Waltzes typically have one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style...
Bagatelle sans tonalité
Sixteen Waltzes for piano, four hands
Pushkin Waltzes
Waltz op. 64 no. 2
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x Cavatina   Cavatina    
Cavatina (Italian diminutive of cavata, the producing of tone from an instrument, plural cavatine) is a musical term, originally a short song of simple character, without a second strain or any repetition of the air. It is now frequently applied to...
5th movement of String Quartet No. 13
Se vuol ballare
x Choral symphony Hector berlioz Symphony No.9 Symphony  
A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, sometimes with solo vocalists, which in its internal workings and overall musical architecture adheres broadly to symphonic musical form. The term "choral symphony" in this context was...
Roméo et Juliette Vocal music
A Sea Symphony
Symphony No. 8
Symphony of Psalms
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x Theme and Variations Primer ornamentalne variacije Goldberg Variations    
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form. The changes may involve harmony, melody, counterpoint, rhythm, timbre, orchestration or any combination of these. Variation forms include ground bass,...
Enigma Variations
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Freedom Variations
Hexameron
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x Overture העמוד הראשון באוברטורה הצרפתית של באך Portsmouth Point   French overture
Overture (French ouverture; German Ouvertüre, Vorspiel; Italian overtura; i.e. opening) in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn...
1812 Overture Italian overture
Hebrides Overture
Coriolan Overture
Festive Overture
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x French overture   Overture in the French style, BWV 831 Overture  
The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period. Its basic formal division is into two parts, which are usually enclosed by double bars and repeat signs. They are complementary in styles (slow in dotted rhythms and fast in...
x Fugue Tonal answer Große Fuge    
In music, a fugue ( /ˈfjuːɡ/ FEWG) is a compositional technique (in classical music) in two or more voices, built on a subject (theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and recurs frequently in the...
The Art of Fugue
The Musical Offering
24 Preludes and Fugues
Well-Tempered Clavier
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x Oratorio Aeneas muziekfragment Christmas Oratorio Vocal music  
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is musical theatre...
The Creation
The Seasons
Elijah
Le néant où l'on ne peut arriver
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x Rondo   Introduction and Rondo capriccioso    
Rondo and its French part-equivalent rondeau are words that have been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form, but also to a character-type that is distinct from the form. The term and formal principle may have...
Adagio et rondo concertant
Rondo in A for Violin and Strings
Rondo in D major
Rondo in B minor for piano and violin
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x Chaconne   Canon in D    
A chaconne (French pronunciation: [ʃaˈkɔn]); Italian: ciaccona (Italian pronunciation: [tʃakˈkɔna]) is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression...
Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira
x Concerto grosso   Concerto Grosso Concerto  
The concerto grosso (Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno). This is in contrast to...
Twelve Concerti Grossi
Concerto Grosso
x Sinfonia concertante Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartin Sinfonia concertanten, K. 364, alkuperäisen käsikirjoituksen sivu Sinfonia Concertante Concerto  
Sinfonia Concertante is a musical form that emerged during the Classical period of Western music. It is essentially a mixture of the symphony and the concerto genres: a concerto in that one or more soloists (in the classical period, usually more...
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Petite symphonie concertante
Symphony-Concerto in E minor
Symphonie Espagnole
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x Concerto for Orchestra   Concerto for Orchestra Concerto  
Although a concerto is usually a piece of music for one or more solo instruments accompanied by a full orchestra, several composers have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This title is usually chosen to...
Concerto in D
Concerto for Orchestra
x Flute sonata   Flute Sonata Sonata  
A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo.
Flute Sonata
Sonata Undine
Sonata in B minor for flute or recorder and harpsichord
Bohuslav Martinu's First Sonata for Flute and Piano
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x Clarinet Sonata   Clarinet Sonata Sonata  
A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment. The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance in the development of the clarinet repertoire.
Clarinet Sonata
Clarinet Sonata
Clarinet Sonatas
Sonata for Clarinet
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x Lied   Gretchen am Spinnrad(e) Song  
Lied (German pronunciation: [ˈliːt]; plural Lieder, [ˈliːdɐ]) is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century,...
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen Vocal music
Nacht und Träume Art song
Die Forelle
Gute Nacht
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x Bassoon sonata   Sonata in F for Bassoon and Piano Sonata  
A bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century. Occasionally, sonatas written for bassoon can also be performed on cello....
x Fantasia   Carmen Fantasie   Chromatic fantasia
The fantasia (from Italian: fantasia; also English: fantasy, fancy, phantasy, German: Fantasie, Phantasie, French: fantaisie) is a musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation. Because of this, it seldom approximates the textbook...
Carmen Fantasy
Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Fantasia No. 3
Wanderer Fantasy
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x Chromatic fantasia     Fantasia  
A chromatic fantasia is a specific type of fantasia (or fantasy or fancy) originating in sixteenth century Europe. In its earliest form, it is based on a chromatically descending tetrachord which arises naturally out of the dorian mode. Consequently...
x Capriccio   Capriccio Italien    
A capriccio or caprice (sometimes plural: caprices, capri or, in Italian, capricci), is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character. The typical capriccio is one that is fast, intense, and often virtuosic in nature. The...
Capriccio espagnol
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Capriccio
Capriccio burlesco
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x Octet   Octet in E flat major    
In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble. Octets in classical music are one of the largest groupings of chamber music. Although eight-part scoring was...
Octet in F major
Octet
Wind Octet in E-flat major
Rondino in E-flat major
x Ode Illustration de Odes et Ballades Coronation Ode    
Ode (from the Ancient Greek ὠδή) is a type of lyrical verse. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist. It is an...
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
x March Welsh guards band on the Mall Orb and Sceptre   Funeral march
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's...
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Radetzky March
Rákóczi March
Sea Songs
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x Chorale prelude Dieterich Buxtehude Orgelbüchlein Prelude  
In music, a chorale prelude is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works of J.S. Bach, who wrote 46 (with a 47th...
Eleven Chorale Preludes Vocal music
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
x Scherzo   Overture, Scherzo and Finale    
A scherzo (plural scherzos or scherzi) is a piece of music, often a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony or a sonata. The scherzo's precise definition has varied over the years, but it often refers to a movement which replaces the minuet...
Scherzo No. 2
Scherzo No. 4
Scherzo No. 1
Scherzo No. 3
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x Pavane Pawana na obrazie H. Franckena Pavane    
The pavane, pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn (It. pavana, padovana; Ger. Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). A pavane is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th...
Pavane pour une infante défunte
x Polonaise Polonaise-rythm Polonaise in A major    
The polonaise (Polish: polonez) is a slow dance of Polish origin, in 3/4 time. Its name is French for "Polish." The polonaise had a rhythm quite close to that of the Swedish semiquaver or sixteenth-note polska, and the two dances have a common...
Polonaise in A-flat major
Polonaise in F-sharp minor
Polonaises Op. 26
Polonaises Op. 71
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x Paraphrase   Totentanz    
A paraphrase (/ˈpærəfreɪz/) is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. The term "paraphrase" derives via Latin paraphrasis from Greek παράφρασις, meaning "additional manner of expression". The act of paraphrasing is also...
Ouvertüre zu Tannhäuser von Richard Wagner
O du mein holder Abendstern: Recitativ und Romanze aus Wagners Tännhauser
Fantasie on Two Motives from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro"
x Parody music weird-al-pics.jpg The Carnival of the Animals    
Parody music, or musical parody, involves changing or copying existing (usually well known) musical ideas or lyrics, or copying the peculiar style of a composer or artist, or even a general style of music. Although the intention of a musical parody...
x Bagatelle   Op. 111 - Bagatella su Beethoven    
A bagatelle is a short piece of music, typically for the piano, and usually of a light, mellow character. The name bagatelle literally means a "trifle", as a reference to the innocent character of the piece. The earliest use of the name "bagatelle"...
Eleven New Bagatelles
Bagatelles, Opus 126
Bagatelle in A minor
Happy-Sad Bagatelle in C minor
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x Partita   Partitas for keyboard    
Partita was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor - 1722, followed by Bach) and later German composers (notably Johann Sebastian Bach) used it for collections of...
Partita Number 4 for Keyboard
Solo Violin Partita No. 2
x Part song   Three Shakespeare Songs Song  
A part song (or either part-song or partsong) is a form of choral music which consists of a secular song which has been written or arranged for several vocal parts, commonly SATB choir, but also for an all-male or all-female ensemble. It is usually...
Lay a garland Vocal music
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