Search results for "Melodic" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • younger composers, Strauss' harmonic and melodic language was looking somewhat old-fashioned by this time. Nevertheless, the songs have always been ...
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  • tonal qualities using the clarity of his melodic lines. Among his other innovations ... considerable. The Symphony No. 1 uses a melodic idea from one of the Gesellen ...
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  • the use of hand gestures to indicate melodic shape. This has been practiced at least as far back as the Middle Ages. In the Christian church ...
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  • light beat and the astute use of riffs--short melodic patterns played repeatedly, especially towards the end of a piece, to heighten the atmosphere ...
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  • In light of his remarkable technical ability, his melodic, harmonic, and stylistic innovations and his charisma and band-leading skills, Dizzy ...
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  • amount of distorted sounds to exemplify the melodic and harmonic lines, hard rock creates a partnership with rock and roll and its variations so that ...
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  • primary influences were Christian morality and melodic harmony. Hula auana still tells or comments on a story, but the stories may include events ...
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  • wide and richly spanned chordal clusters, expansive melodic lines, deep bass notes, and the pedal to obtain a rich and powerful sound. ...
    19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
  • on this motif or a part of it, or on a short melodic germ which is passed from voice to voice in three- or four-voice polyphonic writing, as seen ...
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  • chanting or recitation of the Psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones. Early Catholics employed the Psalms widely in their individual ...
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  • to the monodic style, with its emphasis on clear melodic lines, intelligible text and placid accompanying music, which is typical of Baroque Music, ...
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  • but soon expanded their sounds and became more melodic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=19:T578 “American ...
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  • But a guitar proved the perfect melodic foil for her. Fitzgerald and Pass appeared together on the albums Take Love Easy (1973), Easy Living ...
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  • to have the keyboard and solo instrument share a melodic line, whereas previously, most sonatas for keyboard and instrument had kept the melody exclusively ...
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  • lines were more difficult to pick out than the melodic soprano line. The introduction of the trombones into the orchestra, however, allied them more ...
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  • Ages, a new type of singing involving multiple melodic parts, called organum, became predominant for certain functions, but initially this polyphony ...
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  • #039;s work also featured snatches of creative melodic invention on the upper strings, mingled with a contrasting vocal line. An important aspect of ...
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  • blues-based bass forms, but opted for more melodic and complex lines, often sounding like a second lead guitar. Weir, too, was not a traditional ...
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  • *A chord chart or "chart" contains little or no melodic information at all but provides detailed harmonic and rhythmic information ...
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  • to the point where highly complex melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal music can be realized. The guitar works of twentieth century, Argentine ...
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