2 Terms
Contributors in General music
General music
concertina
Music; General music
Small, free-reed, bellows-operated instrument similar to an accordion; hexagonal in shape, with button keys.
word painting
Music; General music
Musical pictorialization of words from the text as an expressive device; a prominent feature of the Renaissance madrigal.
hornpipe
Music; General music
Country dance of British Isles, often in a lively triple meter; optional dance movement of solo and orchestral Baroque suite; a type of duple meter hornpipe remains popular in Irish traditional dance ...
sonata da chiesa
Music; General music
Baroque instrumental work intended for performance in church; in four movements, frequently arranged slow-fast-slow-fast. Also church sonata.
