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Franco-Flemish

Music; Classical

Regional designation given to pre-18th century composers from the present-day countries of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; most commonly applied to composers of the Renaissance ...

French overture

Music; Classical

A baroque type of overture to an opera, oratorio, or suite.

Style period in music which mirrored some of the art movement of the same name during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In music, it is principally associated with Debussy, whose music exhibits ...

K. numbers

Music; Classical

The numbers assigned to works by Mozart in the Koechel Catalogue; used instead of opus numbers to catalogue Mozart's works.

Arabian maqam

Music; Classical

Arabic maqām (Arabic: مقام‎; pl. maqāmāt مقامات or maqams) is the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music, which is mainly melodic. The word maqam in Arabic means place, location or ...

Maqam al-iraqi

Music; Classical

Al-Maqam Al-Iraqi (Arabic: الـمـقـام الـعـراقـي‎) is a four hundred year old genre of Arab music found in Iraq and often considered the most perfect form of maqam. The instrumentation of the ensemble ...

Muqam

Music; Classical

A Muqam is the melody type used in Uyghur music, that is, a musical mode and set of melodic formulas used to guide improvisation and composition. The muqam system developed among the Uyghur in ...