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| x Rondeau |
The rondeau (French; plural form rondeaux) was a Medieval and early Renaissance musical form, based on the contemporary popular poetic rondeau form. It is distinct from the 18th century rondo, though the terms are likely related. With the virelai...
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| x Concerto grosso |
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).
The form developed in...
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| x Chaconne |
A chaconne (French pronunciation: [ʃaˈkɔn]; Italian: ciaccona) 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, often involving a fairly short...
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Sonata (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, naturally evolved through the history of music,...
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| x Lied |
Lied (German pronunciation: [ˈliːt]; plural Lieder, [ˈliːdɐ]) is a German word, meaning literally "song"; among English speakers, however, the word is used primarily as a term for European romantic music songs, also known as art songs. More...
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| x Fugue |
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In music, a fugue (pronounced /ˈfjuːɡ/) is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as "voices". In the Middle Ages, the term was widely used to denote any works in canonic...
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| x Passacaglia |
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The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used by contemporary composers. Its character is usually grave and it is often, but not always, based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre....
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| x French overture |
The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period. It is in three parts: the first is slow, often with over-dotted (i.e. exaggerated dotted rhythms, not strict double-dotting), the second is quick and fugal, and the first part...
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| x Theme and Variations |
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In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition: reiteration with changes. The changes may involve harmony, melody, counterpoint, rhythm, timbre or orchestration.
Variation forms include ground bass, passacaglia...
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| x Sonata rondo form |
Sonata rondo form was a form of musical organization often used during the Classical music era. As the name implies, it is a blend of sonata form and rondo form.
An explanation of sonata rondo form requires first some preliminary coverage of rondo...
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| x Rondo |
Rondo, and its French equivalent rondeau, is a word that has been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form, but also in reference to a character-type that is distinct from the form. Although now called rondo form,...
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| x Sinfonia concertante |
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Sinfonia concertante is a musical form that originated in the classical music era, and is a mixture of the symphony and the concerto genres:
Until the baroque era, the differences between concerto and sinfonia (or: symphony), had not been all that...
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| x Trio sonata |
The trio sonata is a musical form which was particularly popular around the 17th century and the 18th century.
A trio sonata is written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo, making three parts in all, hence the name trio sonata....
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| x Scherzo |
A scherzo (plural scherzi) is a piece of music or a movement, in a certain style, that forms part of a larger piece such as a symphony, and the scherzo is often the third movement of a symphony, sonata, or string quartet. The word "scherzo" means ...
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