Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Renaissance. Canzona – Polyphonic instrumental or vocal composition originating in Italy, characterized by a contrapuntal style. Canzonetta – Short, light, and usually simple song or instrumental piece. Carol – A festive song, generally religious but non-liturgical, often with a dance-like or popular character.
Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others. Vogue (dance) Children's music. Dance music. Slow dance. Drug use in music. Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others. Bedroom production.
Glossary of music terminology. A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.
Concerto grosso. big concert. A Baroque form of concerto, with a group of solo instruments. Da capo aria. from the head aria. A three-section musical form. Dramma giocoso. jocular drama. A form of opera.
Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group. Cultural genres [ edit ] By ethnicity or origin [ edit ]
Beethoven's stylistic innovations bridge the Classical and Romantic periods. The works of his early period brought the Classical form to its highest expressive level, expanding in formal, structural, and harmonic terms the musical idiom developed by predecessors such as Mozart and Haydn. The works of his middle period were more forward-looking ...
A Dictionary of Musical Themes (New York: Crown, 1949) is a music reference book by Sam Morgenstern and Harold Barlow. Contents [ edit ] The book collects 10,000 musical themes (mostly classical works) and indexes them using a notation index based on transposing the pitches to C major or C minor (so that God Save the Queen / America , for ...
“Stereophonic” and “Merrily We Roll Along,” two shows that examine the tension between art and commerce, triumphed at the 77th Tony Awards on Sunday, capturing prizes for best play and ...