(Encyclopedia) triangle, in music, percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle, open at one angle, and struck with a steel rod. Only since the end of the 18th cent. has it…
(Encyclopedia) bassbassbās [key], in musical harmony, the part of lowest pitch. The term is used for the lowest-pitched male voice and for instruments of low pitch, such as bass clarinet, bass drum,…
(Encyclopedia) rococo, in music, 18th-century reaction against the baroque style. Less formal and grandiose in structure, it was a graceful rather than a profound style, more hedonistic than…
(Encyclopedia) scale, in music, any series of tones arranged in a step-by-step rising or falling order of pitch. A scale defines the interval relationship of each tone to the others upon which the…
(Encyclopedia) baroque, in music, a style that prevailed from the last decades of the 16th cent. to the first decades of the 18th cent. Its beginnings were in the late 16th-century revolt against…
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WHERE DO COMPOSERS GET THEIR IDEAS? WHAT ARE THE PARTS OF A COMPOSITION? WHAT COMES FIRST—WORDS OR MUSIC? IS ALL MUSIC COMPOSED? MUSIC TECHNOLOGY SCOREFIND OUT MOREMost music is imagined first and…
