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(music) Accompanied by the orchestra.
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Melodic motion upward or downward by successive scale-steps: same as ductus in medieval music.
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(music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
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(music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
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(music) An elegant style of singing characterized by beautiful tone and an effortless technique.
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(music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
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(music) Played in this style; singingly, lyrically
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Alternative form of cantus firmus [(music) A preexisting melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.]
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(music) A rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2.
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(countable) A singer of such passages, especially a soprano.
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(music) played "with motion"
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A piece of music in this style.
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(music) a musical form, common in the Baroque period, in which contrasting sections are played by full orchestra and by a small group of soloists.
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(music) The bass line of music, especially for a keyboard instrument, that continues throughout a work; basso continuo.
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(music) A group of ten musicians; a piece of music written for such a group
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(music) An instruction that a section of the orchestra (normally the strings) should divide itself into two, each taking separate parts normally notated on the same staff; either tutti or all'unisono cancels this instruction
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(obsolete) The burden of a song.
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(music) An instrumental bass part that forms the basis of the melody, and against which other instruments provide harmony.
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(music) A short, condensed version of a fugue.
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(music) The use of a grace note.
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(music) Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
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(music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.
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(music) Smoothly, in a connected manner.
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(music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
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(music) A short or simple madrigal.
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(music) In musical notation, an instruction for the pianist to use the left hand.
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The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
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A person having such a voice.
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(music) An obbligato section; a prominent countermelody, often written to be played or sung above the principal theme (in a higher pitch range).
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(music) A bassline characteristic of such music, alternating lower and higher notes or chords on the beat, or in a mid-high-low-high sequence.
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(music) A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
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(music) To be played very softly.
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Alternative form of ritornello [(music) A recurring tutti passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.]
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(music, countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
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(music) A little scherzo.
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(music) A piece of music or a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony; especially, a piece of music played in a playful manner.
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(intransitive, literally) To perform vocal music in a higher pitch than alto.
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(music) A closing voluntary; a postlude.
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(of speech, of a voice, etc) In soft tones; quiet.
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(music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.
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(music) A rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes. It can also be intended to mean a rapid and repetitive variation in pitch for the duration of a note. It is notated by a strong diagonal bar across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless notes).
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(music) All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.
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(music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
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