piece

piece. / (piːs) / noun. an amount or portion forming a separate mass or structure; bit: a piece of wood. a small part, item, or amount forming part of a whole, esp when broken off or separated: a piece of bread.

Musical composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called composers.

Piece words make it possible to talk about a single unit or units of something which is seen as uncountable. Piece words include words such as piece, bit, item, article. We normally use them with of. We can use them in the singular or the plural.

A piece is not a smaller part of a work. However, you use the word work more often when connecting it directly to the composer, while piece is used more from the point of view of the performer or the listener. So you could say, I just heard a wonderful piece of music.

a part of something: a piece of cloth torn from her coat. He cut the cake into six pieces. This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.

1300, "fragment of an object, bit of a whole, slice of meat; separate fragment, section, or part," from Old French piece "piece, bit portion; item; coin" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish *pettsi (compare Welsh peth "thing," Breton pez "piece, a little"), perhaps from an Old Celtic base *kwezd-i- ...

As a generic term, any music that is sung…” In contrast, a Piece is defined as “a composition, especially but not necessarily an instrumental one.” In other words a song is something that is sung (by a person), and a piece is a composition usually for instruments (ie. no singing involved).

The chorus is the culmination of all the big ideas in your song. This is often why the title of the song also appears in the chorus. It's a summary of what the entire song is about. The chorus typically also contains the hook - the catchiest part of the song.

- The songwriter is the initial owner of the song copyright. As copyright owner, the songwriter can sell, license or give the copyright to someone else. Copyright owners can even use song copyrights to secure loans. That is, as a form of collateral.

A piece is a section or a chunk of some larger thing, like a piece of cake or a piece of a broken lamp. You can describe a serving of something, like pie, as a piece, and you can also call an individual item within a larger group a piece, like a piece of furniture or a piece of silverware.

A "piece" is a general term for a musical composition. As such, a piece can be a song, a symphony, an opera, an instrumental, whatever- it is a "piece" of music. A "song" is a self-contained piece of music, with words, intended to be sung. An aria is not a song, because it is part of a larger piece of music, an opera.

The term "musical composition" refers to a piece of original music that has been created. It can be written for vocals or instruments or both and can be simple or very complex. Music compositions are also sometimes called opuses, pieces of music, or simply a "piece."