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Cadenza

Music; Classical

Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto, featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.

Sinfonia

Music; Classical

Term applied in a variety of contexts in different periods; e.g., as a near synonym for 'instrumental canzona,' 'prelude,' 'overture,' and 'symphony.'

Keyboard

Music; Classical

(1) Generic term describing a member of the keyboard instrument 'family': i.e., a piano, organ, harpsichord, clavichord, virginal, etc. (2) the arrangement of keys found on such instruments.

A contrapuntal form in two or more (voice or instrumental) parts in which the melody is introduced by one part and then repeated by the next (and so on) before each previous part has finished (i.e., ...

Sinfonia concertante

Music; Classical

An 18th/early 19th century concerto grosso-like orchestral form for one or more featured instruments, but often exhibiting the lightheartedness of a divertimento.

Leading note

Music; Classical

The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.

Cantata

Music; Classical

Term applied to a 17th and 18th century multi-movement non-theatrical and non-liturgical vocal genre; subsequently used to describe large-scale vocal works in the same spirit, generally for soloists, ...