designed to stand alone and written for the concert hall, rather than a traditional or folk song
Art song
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Ayre
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tune, tuneful song, art song accompanied by the lute or viola da gamba
Air
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tune, tuneful song, art song accompanied by the lute or viola da gamba
Disjunct
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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…
Multimedia work
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contemporary works of art that employ several distinct art forms, such as sculpture and music or painting and light art
Oral tradition
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music that is passed from person to person by imitation and example rather than by written notations
Arabesk
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popular Turkish music of Arabic rather than Turkish origin
Borre
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a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat of four rather than the third of four as in the gavotte
Borree
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a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat of four rather than the third of four as in the gavotte