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111concerto — /keuhn cher toh/; It. /kawn cherdd taw/, n., pl. concertos, concerti / tee/. Music. a composition for one or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment, now usually in symphonic form. [1720 30; < It, deriv. of concertare; see… …
112organum — /awr geuh neuhm/, n., pl. organa / neuh/, organums. 1. an organon. 2. Music. a. the doubling, or simultaneous singing, of a melody at an interval of either a fourth, a fifth, or an octave. b. the second part in such singing. [1605 15; < L; see… …
113ornamentation — /awr neuh men tay sheuhn, meuhn /, n. 1. the act of ornamenting. 2. the state of being ornamented. 3. something with which a thing is ornamented; embellishment. 4. ornaments collectively. [1850 1855] * * * I In architecture, applied embellishment …
114performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
115Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
116Meidias Painter — flourished с 420–400 BC, Greece Greek vase painter known for his theatrical florid style. A large hydria (water vessel) with scenes from the rape of the daughters of Leucippus and of Heracles in the garden of the Hesperides, now in the British… …
117Notre-Dame school — Composers of organum at the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Léonin (с 1135–1201?) is credited with composing two voice florid organum characterized by a rhythmically patterned melisma (a series of notes …
118Sills, Beverly — orig. Belle Silverman born May 25, 1929, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. soprano. She sang on radio as a child and made her operatic debut in 1946. From 1955 she sang with the New York City Opera. After gaining attention for her coloratura performance… …
119Rossini, Gioachino — ▪ Italian composer Introduction in full Gioachino Antonio Rossini born Feb. 29, 1792, Pesaro, Papal States [Italy] died Nov. 13, 1868, Passy, near Paris, France Italian composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of… …
120singing — ▪ music the production of musical tones by means of the human voice. It is the oldest form of music making. In its physical aspect, singing has a well defined technique that depends on the use of the lungs, which act as an air supply, or… …
