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(obsolete, music) In alla breve time.
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Instrumental music having an intellectual and affective content, which depends solely on its rhythmic, melodic, and contrapuntal structure.
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(music) A short instrumental composition, usually performed on the piano and light in character.
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(uncountable, music) The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
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(music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
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(music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.
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A compilation of the best works of a musical performer.
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A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
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(music) Alternative form of call and response [(singing) A musical technique in which one or more performers calls and others (often the audience) respond with alternating musical phrases.]
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A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
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(music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.
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(music) A vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style.
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(music) The designated division of a song.
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Alternative form of canzonet [A short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.]
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(music) A piece composed according to the rules of centonization.
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(informal, countable) musical accompaniment
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(countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
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The adaptation of music for concert performance.
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(music) A medieval song, normally with a sacred text, often sung in Latin.
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A new musical composition built out of an already existing one, most often a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. An important part of the development of bebop. Contrafacts are not to be confused with musical quotations, which borrow rhythms or melodies from an existing composition.
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(music) One skilled in counterpoint.
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(transitive) To compose or arrange such music.
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(chiefly music) A theme that complements or opposes another theme.
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(music) Synonym of cross-beat
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(music) A group of ten musicians.
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(intransitive, music) To sing or play a descant.
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(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
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(music) Alternative form of descant [(intransitive) To discuss at length.]
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(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
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(music) The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
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(music) An introduction or prelude.
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(music) A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.
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The graphical features of musical scores that when performed are unnoticeable by the listener.
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(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
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(music) Any musical instrument whose output is transformed by computer control
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(music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
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(music) The first few bars of a piece of music.
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The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
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(music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
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(music, art) A short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle; a theatrical interlude.
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(transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
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(music) A piece of music that serves as an introduction.
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(music) A piece of music played before a mass; a musical introduction of any sort.
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(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
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(music) The harmonic and rhythmic part of certain Hungarian folk music, as opposed to the melodic part.
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(music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
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(music) A form of written music that specifies the melody, lyrics, and harmony.
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A device for turning the pages of sheet music while a musician is sight reading.
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(music) A musical notation to inscribe notes outside the lines and spaces of the regular musical staves; a line slightly longer than the note is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distances as the notes within the staff.
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(music) A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
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(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
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(singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
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(archaic, music) The middle voice of a three-voice polyphonic musical composition.
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(music) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text.
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(music) Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.
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One who uses microtones in music.
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(informal) A computerized music file in the MIDI format.
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(music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
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(music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
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(music) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
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The vocal imitation of instrumental music.
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(music) Someone who can perform on multiple reed instruments
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(music) A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics.
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An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing.
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Talent or sensitivity in the playing of music.
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(computing) A short music clip used to indicate something to the user.
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(music) Relating to neumes.
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(musics software) A software program that writes musical notation based on the computer representation of music, or the sound.
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(transitive) To set down in musical characters.
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(music) A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.
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(music, abbreviation) Opus.
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The first few measures of a musical composition.
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(music) A musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery or acting.
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(music) A musical score.
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A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
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The art of vocal improvisation, with a singer or small choir singing a countermelody over a harp melody; it is an important competition in eisteddfodau.
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(music) The simple notes of an air, without ornament or variation.
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A kind of mouth organ or harmonica.
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(vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
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(music) A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
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(music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.
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(now chiefly historical) Music sung from notation written with dots or points, as opposed to by ear; sheet music.
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(music) The principal part of a duet.
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(music) A form of art music, generally without vocal parts, that attempts to convey a scene, image, or mood.
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(music) A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
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(music) Alternative form of recitative [(music) dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple musical accompaniment or harpsichord continuo, serving to expound the plot]
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(music) dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple musical accompaniment or harpsichord continuo, serving to expound the plot
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(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
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(music) The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
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(music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.
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(music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
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An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
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(music) Musical notation reading software, used to read (play) sheet music (especially for piano).
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The composition of musical scores.
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(music) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, rather than the full choir.
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(music) To adapt a literary work by adding music (and often song)
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Handwritten or printed form of musical notation.
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(US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
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The sol-fa system of singing.
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(music) A piece of music for one performer.
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(by extension) Any musical composition.
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The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.
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(poetry) An Italian lyric poem or folk song.
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(music) A musical composition for such a group.
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(music) A piece of orchestral music, in one movement, based on something non-musical, such as a story or a painting.
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The writing of symphonies.
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(music) Of, pertaining or proper to the tenor voice
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(music) Program music, or the process of composing it.
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(music, broadcasting) A song which accompanies a television or radio program, usually as an intro or outro.
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(music) Of a song, composed so that each stanza may have different music, rather than the same being repeated for all of them.
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(music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
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(music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
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(music) An adaptation of a composition.
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(music) A rule that modifies a well-formed structure (in limited ways).
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(music, historical) A triple octave, or twenty-second.
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(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
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(music) To hold a note for a shorter duration than required.
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(music) Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
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An accompanying sound or strain; an accompaniment.
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(music) A very short organ interlude or prelude.
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(music) requiring a high level of technical skill.
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(music) Program music, or the process of composing it.
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