the way musical elements (melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, form, etc.) are presented; what distinguishes one performance from another
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String quartet
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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist
Syllabic
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a musical setting is syllabic when one and only one note is related to one syllable in the text
Sprezzatura
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a free style of musical performance that ignored strict tempo and rhythm
Staccatissimo
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Italian
an extreme form of staccato, often taken to indicate that one should shorten the note thus marked to one quarter of its writt…
Stem
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See stem in Elements of a Musical Score See Elements of Standard Notation for Classical Guitar see Elements of Tablature for…
Serialism
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A compositional method where various musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics and tone colour may be put in a fixed o…
Ternary form
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a three section form in which the first section A is repeated, often with some changes, after a middle section B, thus the fo…
Close harmony
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a form of harmony where the harmonizing notes lie close to the melody