Search results for "Melodic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- sense of humor. His phrasing was fluid and melodic, but also made use of rhythmic ... role. They began to use the trombone as a melodic instrument, much like the ...5 KB (863 words) - 03:26, 29 July 2022
- textural element. Counterpoint focuses on melodic interaction rather than ... melody without much consideration of the melodic character of the added accompanying ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- work are generated from a germinal motif. The main melodic subjects, thus interrelated, are then recapitulated in the final movement. His music is often ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- vocal music in England due to his ease of melodic writing, which he generously ... the use of unconventional harmonic or melodic ideas to support the imitative ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- versions of complete melodies, or melodic fragments; in one case he even extracts the component notes and orders them by note value, long to ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- of music within a set of parameters that may place melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic restrictions. * Mixed genre: Seamless integration of several ...4 KB (552 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- the use of unconventional harmonic or melodic ideas to support the imitative ... these "madrigalisms," in which melodic and harmonic devices were ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- col legno, and so on); wide-ranging melodic lines, often with leaps ... in a much more modern harmonic and melodic language. For a number ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- for new ways of developing, and combining, pure melodic lines. Particularly influential here was the doina, a type of meditative song, frequently melancholic ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- outlook. He went from using 12-tone rows for melodic material to structuring his works entirely in a serial manner. With the adoption of serialism he ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- one of the most famous calypsonians and a melodic genius. Elements of calypso have been incorporated in jazz to form calypso jazz. ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- century composers. His harmonic and melodic language affected how music ... In contrast with his harmonic and melodic style, which pushed the ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- his guitar providing both a rhythmic and melodic counterpoint. He had a tremendous ... thumb while the fingers play a simplified melodic pattern. Instead, Davis ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 – September 23, 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- contrapuntally complex, with several melodic lines unwinding at once ... #039;s The Art of Fugue. It uses several melodic figures found in Bach's ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- or Ives for example, whilst avoiding the melodic, harmonic and temporal expansiveness ... diatonic and modal harmony, and small melodic ranges. He also made frequent ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- folk songs to add fullness and dexterity to the melodic line. Technically, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- also has a typically Germanic liking for singable melodic passages in parallel imperfect intervals (thirds and sixths). Senfl also wrote numerous ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
