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(music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
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(music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
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(music) A short aria, or air.
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(music) A musical style, in opera and oratorio, that is more melodic than recitative, but less so than aria
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(music) A group of four musicians who sing barbershop music. Usually contains high and lead tenors, baritone and bass.
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(historical, music) A Flemish system of singing, similar to sol-fa, but employing the syllables "bo, ce, di, ga, lo, ma, ni".
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(music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
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(music) A type of canon in which the imitating voice repeats the notes of the theme in reverse order
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(music) The treble or leading melody.
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(music) A type of instrumental composition based on multipart vocal settings of canzoni, produced chiefly in the 16th and 17th centuries
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A style of popular Italian secular vocal composition which originated around 1560, or a piece composed in this style
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(music) A piece of instrumental music of the eighteenth century similar to the serenade, and often performed outdoors.
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Alternative form of cavatina [(music) An operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence]
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An orchestra of modest size, to play chamber music, yet larger than the various chamber ensembles named after their number of instruments (from duo to nonet)
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A member of a genre of documentary films from the 1920s and 1930s featuring scenes of city life.
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A style of music where the chords are arranged within a narrow range, and the vocal styles of two or more singers either complement or are similar to each other.
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(music) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment.
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(music) A short concerto.
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(music) A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
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(music) A singer who has a voice intermediate between soprano and mezzo-soprano
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(music) A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
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(music) The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
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(countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
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(music) The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production (chiefly plural).
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(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
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(music) Music that is played as a background to a film, television programme, video game, etc.
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(music) an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.
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(music) A syncopated musical rhythm in which a short accented note is followed by a longer one, reversing the pattern normally associated with dotted notes.
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Of organ music requiring the use of the manuals only.
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(music) A musical composition set to portions of the Mass.
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(rare) A small orchestra.
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(music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
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(music) A large division of a larger composition.
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A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of melody, harmony, tempo, rhythm etc. usually to convey a mood.
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(mythology) A continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
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(music) A composition for such a group of musicians.
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(music) A sampled sound consisting of a number of different orchestral instruments playing a single staccato note or chord at the same time.
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(uncommon) An orchestral performance.
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(countable, music) A composition that has been orchestrated.
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(music) A musical introduction to a piece of music, or a play.
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A small orchestra playing light classical music.
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(music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
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(music) A type of instrumental suite popular in the 18th century
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(music, rare) A full score, conductor's score (with a separate line for every part).
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(music) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
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(music) A full-size symphony orchestra.
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(music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
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(music, countable) A song in this style
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(music) A song with some characteristics of a symphony.
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(music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.
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(music) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half-step higher; a melodic sequence.
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(music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
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The second violin part in an orchestral score, generally a harmony to the first violin's melody and generally less technically demanding.
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(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
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(music) A semiclassical work
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A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
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(music) An instrumental composition in several movements.
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Obsolete form of symphony. [An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.]
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(music) A small orchestra.
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(music) Initialism of symphony orchestra. [(music) A large orchestra that traditionally plays Western classical orchestral music.]
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(music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.
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(music) A form of classical music consisting of a single movement divided into three main sections, the exposition, development and recapitulation, sometimes followed by a coda.
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A musical composition resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler.
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A musical work of established popularity.
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(music) A group of four musicians playing string instruments, usually two violins, a viola and a cello.
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(music) a musical composition for such a group
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(music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
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(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
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A small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.
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(music) Concord in Ancient Greek music.
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(music) Characteristic of a symphony
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(dated, rare) A sinfonietta.
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A musical composition in a symphonic style.
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An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.
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(music) A large orchestra that traditionally plays Western classical orchestral music.
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(music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
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(music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
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a type of musical composition with two melodic parts and basso continuo
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(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.
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