A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions of the term folklore, which was ...
This term is mostly used to refer to music descending from the tradition of Western classical music. This is the common definition referred by many musicologists and scholars including Susan McClary, ...
According to some writers the concept of a distinct category of fine art is an invention of the early modern period in the West. Larry Shiner in his The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (2003) loc ...
Performing arts may include primary forms, such as dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, and minor or secondary forms like Magic and/or illusion, mime, spoken word, puppetry circus arts, p ...
In its most basic abstract definition, art is a documented expression of a sentient being through or on an accessible medium so that anyone can view, hear or experience it. The act itself of producing ...
A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. Genre should not be confused with age ...
Charles Hartman discusses several methods of automatic generation of poetry in his book The Virtual Muse.Art See also: Automatic drawing, Surrealist automatism, Pareidolia and ApopheniaA small group o ...
Because of differing fundamental concepts of music, the languages of many cultures do not contain a word that can be accurately translated as "music," as that word is generally understood by Western c ...
In Boeotia, the homeland of Hesiod, a tradition persisted that the Muses had once been three in number. Diodorus Siculus quotes Hesiod to the contrary, observing:Writers similarly disagree also concer ...
Examples of performance genres include:musical genres:concertrecitalmusic competitiontheatrical genres:playoperaoperettaballet and other types of dancemusical theaterother genres:circus actsperformanc ...
In musical terms, particularly in the fields of music history and music analysis, some common terms for different types of texture are:Type Description Visual AudioMonophonic Monophonic texture includ ...
Tone quality and color are synonyms for timbre, as well as the "texture attributed to a single instrument". Hermann von Helmholtz used the German Klangfarbe (tone color), and John Tyndall proposed an ...
The two basic dynamic indications in music are:p or piano, meaning "soft".f or forte, meaning "loud".More subtle degrees of loudness or softness are indicated by:mp, standing for mezzo-piano, meaning ...
There are many types of articulation, each with a different effect on how the note is played. In music notation articulation marks include the slur, phrase mark, staccato, staccatissimo, accent, sforz ...
The term is not very precisely defined (Scholes 1977). MacPherson (1930, 3) preferred to speak of "time" and "rhythmic shape", Imogen Holst (1963, 17) of "measured rhythm". However, London has written ...
