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Wind music has two different meanings: Music written for wind instruments. Music produced using the wind (rather than, say, breath). These are chiefly string instruments, such as the Aeolian harp, but some woodwinds are also known.

sforzando followed immediately by piano Abbreviation for sforzando followed immediately by piano, i.e. a strongly accented note followed by a quiet note or passage. ...

1. : a lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time that is usually performed by a man and a woman to the accompaniment of guitar and castanets. also : music for this dance.

: a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts. The organist played a four-voiced fugue.

: a natural movement of air of any velocity. especially : the earth's air or the gas surrounding a planet in natural motion horizontally. b. : an artificially produced movement of air.

(Mark Konig / Unsplash / FOX Weather) Called eolian sound or aeolian tones, the sound is produced when the wind blows over objects and causes friction. This friction produces sound waves, which travel through the air and can make a range of sounds.

ppp: abbreviation of pianississimo meaning "very, very soft" pp: abbreviation of pianissimo meaning "very soft" p: abbreviation of piano meaning "soft" mp: abbreviation of mezzo-piano meaning "somewhat soft"

ff, standing for fortissimo and meaning "very loud". ppp ("triple piano"), standing for pianississimo and meaning "very very quiet". fff ("triple forte"), standing for fortississimo and meaning "very very loud".

The fandango is a triple meter partner dance typically accompanied by castanets, hand-clapping (palmas) and guitars. It follows a typical I-IV-V progression with lyrics in octosyllabic verses. There are many varieties of fandango found in Spain, Portugal and in Mexico.

time, of slow tempo, mostly in the minor, with a trio in the major; sometimes, however, the whole was in a major key. Later it took the 3-4 tempo, and the characteristic Spanish rhythm.

In Mozart's Fugue in G Minor, K 401, for piano four hands (1782), the two subjects are melodic inversions of each other. Two excellent examples of triple fugue (i.e., having three subjects) are Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No. 4, and his Fugue in E-flat Major for organ, BWV 552, called the St.

oratorio, a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. An oratorio's text is usually based on scripture, and the narration necessary to move from scene to scene is supplied by recitatives sung by various voices to prepare the way for airs and choruses.