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161. An anthem is a sacred choral composition, usually based on Biblical or liturgical[34] words. It may or may not have an instrumental accompaniment, and is usually written in fo...

Sings Music Terms SOME PRINCIPLES OF CORRECT NOTATION
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Dynamics

120. The word dynamics (cf. dynamic--the opposite of static) as used in the nomenclature of music has to do with the various degrees of power (i.e., the comparative loudness and so...

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The Great Scale

This is the most necessary exercise for all kinds of voices. It was taught to my mother; she taught it to all her pupils and to us. But I am probably the only one of them all who p...

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The Double-period

A third method consists in expanding the period into a double-period (precisely as the phrase was lengthened into a double-phrase, or period), by avoiding a perfect cadence at the...

Sings Music Lessons ENLARGEMENT OF THE PERIOD-FORM.
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Nasal Nasal Singing

By raising the back of the tongue toward the soft palate and lowering the soft palate toward the tongue, we produce nasal sound, such as is heard in the pronunciation of the word h...

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Resonant Consonants

K, l, m, n, p, s, and r at the end of a word or syllable must be made resonant by joining to the end of the word or syllable a rather audible [)e] (eh); for instance, Wandel^e, Gre...

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Tempo (_continued_)

110. Innumerable combinations of the words defined in Sec. 109 with one another and with other words occur. Some of these combinations with their approximate meanings follow. The m...

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Aida

Grand romantic Opera in four acts by GIUSEPPE VERDI. Text by ANTONIO GHISLANZONI. Translated into German by S. SCHANZ. English version by KENNEY. This opera owes its great populari...

Operatic Operas Romantic Opera
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Distinction Between Bipartite And Tripartite Forms

We learned, in the preceding chapter, that the Two-Part Song-form is a composition of rather brief extent, with so decisive a perfect cadence in its course as to divide it, in a ma...

Sings Music Lessons THE THREE-PART SONG-FORM.
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Abu Hassan

In one act by WEBER. Text by HIEMER. This little opera, composed by Weber in his early youth and first represented at Dresden under the composer's own direction, for a time fell in...

Operatic Operas Comic Opera
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The Golden Cross

In two acts by IGNAZ BRULL. Text by MOSENTHAL. Brull, born at Prossnitz in Moravia, Nov. 7th, 1846, received his musical education in Vienna and is well known as a good pianist. He...

Operatic Operas Opera
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Causes

The possibility of deviating from the fundamental standard of phrase-dimension (four measures) has been repeatedly intimated, and is treated with some detail in the text preceding...

Sings Music Lessons CADENCES.
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