In classical music, what denotes a seperate "movement"?
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Op. stands for Opus, which is Latin for Work. There are 138 works that Beethoven accepted as being fully of his standard and that he assigned Opus numbers to. There are approx. 200 that he didn't recognise as being his best work, and these he didn't assign Opus numbers to. They are often refered to as WOO (or Without Opus).\n\nWhat counts as a seperate movement. Here I'm less well qualified. Usually there is a break in the music (a time to cough!) and usually the music changes in style or mood.Even it's time signature may change, for instance there may be a waltz movement in the middle of a 4/4 piece. Normally a movement is a piece of music that is self contained (which is why Classic FM often only play a single movement of a piece).
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The essential elements of any melody are duration, pitch, and quality [timbre, texture, and loudness].\n\nThe melodies in most European music written before the 20th century features recurring "events, often periodic, at all structural levels" and "recurrance of durations and patterns of durations" are also important in 20th century music.\n\nWhile in the 20th century pitch includes those aspects of sound that are classed as having higness or lowness earlier music included almost exclusively sounds having fixed and easily discernible frequency patterns and composers have utilized a greater variety of pitch resources than has been the custom in in any other historical period of Western music. While materials from the diatonic scale are still used, the twelve-tone scale became widely employed.\n\nMelodies in the 20th century where increasingly reliant "upon the qualitative dimensions" with those dimensions "taking on roles that in pre-twentieth century music were almost exclusively reserved for pitch and rhythm" such as being an "element of linear ordering" rather than a highlight to "the more predominant pitch and rhythmic aspects." See Klangfarbenmelodie and Musique concrète.
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Yes, I think most people who play musical instruments (esp a stringed one) like classical music since we learned to play using it.  I'll check out the group. Thx!
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These are just labels for radio or record sales. 'Pop' meaning recent music by well-known figures with records released by large corporations. But, if you are auditioning for a play, Classical probably means a Schubert song or something like that. And 'Popular' would mean anything from the Beatles to Tin Pan Alley to Britney Spears.
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Music is a form of communication between souls that no words can describe.  When you discover the type of music that moves you, you have found joy.  When you have found a special person that is moved by the same music, you have found love.
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I find that a great way to study when you have other things on your mind is to play some classical music in the background. Doing this gives you nice, soothing sounds that don't have any vocals for you associate with things you may have been previously thinking about. Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi...All are great choices!
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The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common in musicology and performance. There are observable patterns to what is broadly labeled music, and while there are understandable cultural variations, the properties of music are the properties of sound as perceived and processed by humans.\n\nGreek philosophers and medieval theorists defined music as tones ordered horizontally (as melodies) and vertically (as harmonies). Music theory, within this realm, is studied with the presupposition that music is orderly and often pleasant to hear. However, in the 20th century, composers challenged the notion that music had to be pleasant by creating music that explored harsher, darker timbres.\n\n20th century composer Austin Paul Harris disagreed with the notion that music was pleasant melodies. Instead, he argued that any sounds we can hear can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound," [citation needed]. According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990 p.47-8,55): "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined--which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be."\n\nOther definitions of music list the aspects or elements that make up music. Molino (1975: 43) argues that, in addition to a lack of consensus, "any element belonging to the total musical fact can be isolated, or taken as a strategic variable of musical production." Nattiez gives as examples Mauricio Kagel's Con Voce [with voice], where a masked trio silently mimes playing instruments. In this example sound, a common element, is excluded, while physical gesture, a less common element in definitions of music, is given primacy.\n\nEtymology\n\nFrench musique ← Latin (ars) musica ← Greek μουσική (τέχνη) "(art) of the Muses".
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I don't think there are any...\n\nIf a composer writes a symphony, it would be called a "Symphony", not a minuet, serenade, sonata, or canon...
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tonic, major, duet, measure, flat,duration
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I like the 7th symphony, the movement strikes me.
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The major eras in Classical Music are:\n\n1) Renaissance (approx. 1425-1450 OR 1475-1600)\n2) Baroque\n3) Classical\n4) Romantic\n5) 20th Century\n\n1) Renaissance - Church music dominated the music of the Renaissance. \n\nChoral music was the most impressive music from this period.\n\nThe dominant feature of Renaissance music is polyphony (music with two or more independent melodic parts sounded together.)\n\nThere was little variation between loudness and softness. \n\n2) Baroque - Rhythm was typically strong, energetic, steady and repetitive. \n\nMelodies were elaborate, florid, energetic, continouosly expanding, and frequently embellished by trills and other ornamental devices.\n\nPolyphony (or counterpoint) was the basic texture of Baroque music.\n\nBut in Italian opera, music mostly had a single melody plus chords.\n\nEach movement of music had one effect or emotion. (no contrasts)\n\n3) Classical - Characteristics were order, stability, and balanced simplicity.\n\nMelodies were much simpler than Baroque melodies.\n\nFor the 1st time in music, single melody homophonic music dominated composition.\n\nMusic was very structured during this era.\n\nUnlike the Baroque era, it became the style to establish contrasts between sections within movements.\n\nThis era favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity.\n\n4) Romantic - Composers favored subjectivity and expression over objectivity and form.\n\nThe prevailing drive was for individual expression and emotion. \n\nRomantic melody was extremely strong. The emphasis was on melody. \n\nWorks of this era tended to become longer. \n\nMusic was still mainly homophonic.\n\nCompared to the previous eras, this era had more modulation (moving from one key to another within a section of music) and more chromaticism (using notes not part of the 7 note key scale)\n\nOrchestration was much more colorful and free than the previous eras. \n\n5) 20th century - This period saw classical music split into many different styles.\n\nSome major styles from this era:\n\na) Impressionism - music that aimed to convey the atmospheric impact of an event, place, or thing, rather than an accurate portrayal of the subject itself. \n\nb) Expressionism - harshly dissonant, atonal, and difficult to understand\n\nc) Neoclassicism - the movement in the 20th century to return to a revived "common practice" harmony, mixed with greater dissonance and rhythm, as the basic point of departure for music\n\nRhythm is more varied, more complex, more unpredictable, more energetic...\n\nMelody is generally less lyrical than the previous eras.\n\nMany composer went back to using counterpoint.
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need more info...what kind of music are you looking for? classical, new age, ???
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Frecvency ( measured in hertz ) is the number of cycles of the repetitive waveform per second. More simply = the number of vibrations in one second.\nRhythm is the variation of the accentuation of sounds or other events over time.\nBeat is a pulse of sound that marks the metre, rhythm or riddim of a piece of music.\nHarmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords,  sometimes referred to as the "vertical" aspect of music, with melody being the "horizontal" aspect. \nScale is a set of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. Scales are typically ordered in pitch, with their ordering providing a measure of musical distance. \nOctave is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency.\n\nfor more use Wikipedia\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page   >> search >>
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Introduction or prologue - they pretty much mean the same thing.  Preface is another possibiity.  Exposition  could also be correct, but it usually refers to the first part of a musical composition.
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Simple harmonic motion or harmonic motion is a periodic vibration, for example, of a violin string or pendulum, that has a single frequency or an even multiple of one or is symmetrical about a point of equilibrium.
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The above are correct, but adagio has also life outside of music. It means slowly, but is no longer part of everyday speech. You can check for musical terms at\n\nwww.italian-language-study.org
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Classical music is a term that is often misused. In the music world, "classical music" refers to music from about 1720-1800. To most people, classical music is stuff with strings that sounds boring. So technically there are no more "classical" composers. Most of them died back in the 1800's. Different styles of music are popular in different time periods. So the "Classical" style of music isnt really popular right now. There are still a lot of modern composers that compose for wind bands and orchestras though. Some good wind band composers right now are Eric Whitacre, David Holsinger, David Maslanka and many many more! They would be considered 20th or 21st century composers though! But their music is still beautiful! Check them out!