The music of the early villanella ( known as the canzone villanesca ) is invariably for three unaccompanied voices.

The following year his villanella Smorza crudel amore was set to music and in 1608 he publish his poem Il Pianto della Vergine.

He was maestro di cappella of the prestigious St. Mark's Basilica at the end of the 16th century, and was an important figure in the development of Italian light secular music, especially the villanella.

Probably his greatest significance to music history is in the development of a light secular form known as the villanella, a lighter form of madrigal, of Neapolitan origin.

The solo madrigal, frottola, villanella and their kin featured prominently in the intermedio or intermezzo, theatrical spectacles with music that were funded in the last seventy years of the 16th century by the opulent and increasingly secular courts of Italy's city-states.

In music, a glissando ( plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.

An aria ( Italian for air ; plural: arie or arias in common usage ) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.

In Greek mythology, the Sirens ( Greek singular: ; Greek plural: ) were dangerous and devious creatures, portrayed as femmes fatales who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.

The Oud (; ʿūd, plural: أعواد, a ‘ wād ; Assyrian: ܥܘܕ ūd, ; Hebrew: עו ּ ד ; barbat ; ;, Azeri: ud ; or kaban ) is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Greek, Byzantine, North African ( Chaabi, Classical, and Andalusian ) and Middle Eastern music.

A scherzo ( plural scherzos or scherzi ) is a piece of music, often a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony or a sonata.

The Latin plural, opera, also denotes the opera music genre, wherein the works also are ( occasionally ) identified with a musical composition opus number, as in the grand opera Samson and Delilah, Op.

The concerto grosso ( Italian for big concert ( o ), plural concerti grossi ) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists ( the concertino ) and full orchestra ( the ripieno or concerto grosso ).

( Sordina, with plural sordine, is the strictly correct Italian term for mute as used on string instruments ; but the forms con sordino, senza sordino, sordino via, etc., are much more commonly used as terms in music than the forms con sordina, senza sordine, etc.

An eisteddfod (; plural eisteddfodau ) is a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance.

Note: sordina, with plural sordine, is strictly correct Italian, but the forms con sordino and con sordini are much more commonly used as terms in music.

As with other Middle-Eastern urban music genres, Sephardic music was based on a system of makam ( Turkish plural: makamlar ), which is sometimes translated as " mode ," but actually embraces a broader series of musical elements.

2: visual art ( as painting, sculpture, or film ) especially as distinguished from art that is written ( as poetry or music ) — often used in plural

A Singspiel (; plural: Singspiele ; literally " sing-play ") is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera.

A sonneur – or, in Breton, soner ( plural: sonerien ) – is a player of traditional music in Brittany: i. e., someone who plays the bombarde, biniou ( Breton bagpipe ), or clarinet ; as distinct from a kaner, or traditional singer.

Gnawas play deeply hypnotic trance music, marked by low-toned, rhythmic sintir melodies, call-and-response singing, hand clapping and cymbals called krakeb ( plural of karkaba ).

In late medieval Western music, a clausula ( Latin " clause "; plural clausulae ) was a newly composed polyphonic section for two or more voices sung in discant style (" note against note ") over a cantus firmus.

In medieval music, conductus ( plural: conductus ) is a type of sacred, but non-liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices.

In music, an intermezzo (, plural: intermezzi ), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work.

Rebetiko, plural rebetika, ( Greek: ρεμπέτικο, and ρεμπέτικα respectively ), occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards.

A rhythmic pattern or cycle in Arabian music is called a " wazn " (; plural أوزان / awzān ), literally a " measure ", also called darb, mizan, and usul as is in Ottoman classical music ).

Iqa < nowiki >'</ nowiki > ( / īqā ‘; plural إيقاعات / īqā ‘ āt ) are rhythmic modes or patterns in Arabian music.

In music, the villanelle is a dance form, accompanied by sung lyrics or an instrumental piece based on this dance form.

As an unintended consequence, the soundtrack to one of the films — Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — renders Alex unable to listen to his beloved classical music.

So it is no surprise that the science of acoustics spreads across so many facets of our society — music, medicine, architecture, industrial production, warfare and more.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

Druyan was responsible for the selection of the music on the Voyager Golden Record for the pioneering exploratory missions of the Solar System — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

Instead of reviewing music videos, they reviewed ( custom-made ) pages from other Marvel Comics — in one with Ghost Rider, Beavis tries to avoid using the word " fire " to describe the character's fiery skull.

The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.

This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.

This led to changes in the way music was performed, the most crucial of which was the move to standard instrumental groups and the reduction in the importance of the continuo — the harmonic fill beneath the music, often played by several instruments.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

In a 1996 New York Magazine piece on women in rock music, it was noted that Love " had the ambition most people would associate with a male rock star ... one thing you have to admire her for is that she refuses — just refuses — to be overlooked in any way.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

The disco sound was also shaped by Tom Moulton, who wanted to extend the enjoyment of the music — thus creating the extended mix or " remix ".

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

The proportions of the spheres of the planets and stars ( which at the time were still thought to revolve around the earth ) were perceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any sound would be heard — music refers strictly to the mathematical proportions.

Additionally, Schaeffer ( 1968, 284 ) describes that the sound of classical music " has decays ; it is granular ; it has attacks ; it fluctuates, swollen with impurities — and all this creates a musicality that comes before any ' cultural ' musicality.