Baroque musicBaroque music (UK: or US: ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style). Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and continues to be widely studied, performed, and listened to.
Renaissance musicRenaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ars nova, the Trecento music was treated by musicology as a coda to medieval music and the new era dated from the rise of triadic harmony and the spread of the contenance angloise style from the British Isles to the Burgundian School.
Stile concertatoThe stile concertato (Italian:, lit.'concerted style') is a style of early Baroque music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The word concertato is the past participle of the Italian verb concertare meaning ‘to agree, act together’, from the Latin verb concertare originally meaning “to contend or strive”.
Reformed Free Methodist ChurchThe Reformed Free Methodist Church (RFMC) was a Wesleyan Methodist denomination in the conservative holiness movement.
NasheedA nasheed (Arabic: نَشِيد, romanized: nashīd, lit.'chant', pl.أَنَاشِيد, anāshīd) is a work of Islamicvocal music, popular throughout the Muslim world and partially coincident with hymns, that is either sung a cappella or with instruments. A nasheed performer is called a "nashidist" in English and munshid in Arabic (مُنْشِد, Munshid,f.مُنْشِدَة, Munshidah,pl.مُنْشِدِين, Munshidīn).
AccompanimentAccompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece. There are many different styles and types of accompaniment in different genres and styles of music. In homophonic music, the main accompaniment approach used in popular music, a clear vocal melody is supported by subordinate chords.
PolyphonyPolyphony ( pə-LIF-ə-nee) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). In the Western musical tradition, the term polyphony is usually used to refer to music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
VocableIn the broadest sense of the word, a vocable (from Latin: vocabulum) is any identifiable utterance or writing, such as a word or term, that is fixed by its language and culture. The use of the term for words in the broad sense is archaic and the term is instead used for utterances which are not considered words, such as the English interjections of assent and denial, uh-huh and uh-uh, or the interjection of error, uh-oh.
CuneiformCuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
ZemirotZemirot or Z'miros (Hebrew: זמירות zǝmîrôt, singular: zimrah but often called by the masculine zemer) are Jewish hymns, usually sung in the Hebrew or Aramaic languages, but sometimes also in Yiddish or Ladino during Shabbat and to some extent the Jewish holidays.
Alla breveAlla breve – also known as cut time or cut common time – is a musical meter notated by the time signature symbol (a C with a vertical line through it), which is the equivalent of 2, though it has been used to denote 2. The term is Italian for "on the breve", originally meaning that the beat was counted on the breve (double whole note). Alla breve is a "simple-duple meter with a half-note pulse". The note denomination that represents one beat is the minim or half-note.British EnglishBritish English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom, especially Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the United Kingdom taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish English, Welsh English, and Northern Irish English.
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