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| a cappella |
without instrumental accompaniment, as choral singing. |
| ambient |
a type of instrumental music characterized by patterns of sound rather than melodic form or rhythmic structure, and which can be explicitly listened to or serve as background or atmospheric sound. [1/3 definitions] |
| aria |
a solo piece for voice with instrumental accompaniment, usu. sung in an opera. [1/2 definitions] |
| cantilena |
a simple lyrical passage in vocal or instrumental music. |
| capriccio |
a lively, free-form instrumental piece of music. [1/3 definitions] |
| divertimento |
a light instrumental chamber composition with several short movements, usu. written in the eighteenth century. |
| doo-wop |
a singing style most popular in the 1950s, characterized by a lead singer performing with a chorus singing nonsense syllables, either with or without instrumental accompaniment. |
| instrumentality |
the quality or condition of being instrumental. [1/2 definitions] |
| karaoke |
a form of musical entertainment originating in Japan in which prerecorded instrumental music from popular songs is played while a person performs live vocals through a microphone. |
| madrigal |
a type of song popular in the Renaissance, usu. sung by four to six singers who sing the same words but at different times and usu. with no instrumental accompaniment. |
| noninstrumental |
combined form of instrumental. |
| partita |
in music, a series of related instrumental pieces, such as a suite. |
| prelude |
in music, an introductory piece or movement such as an overture, or a short, independent instrumental composition in a free form like an impromptu or improvisation. [1/6 definitions] |
| program music |
instrumental music intended to evoke or depict a scene, story, event, or the like. |
| ritornello |
an instrumental interlude between stanzas, arias, scenes, or the like, esp. in early seventeenth-century operas. [1/2 definitions] |
| Samuel |
according to the Old Testament, a judge and prophet of Israel in the eleventh century B.C. who was instrumental in establishing Saul as the first king of the Jews. [1/2 definitions] |
| tessitura |
the general range or pitch of an instrumental or vocal part in a musical composition. |
| vocal |
a piece of popular music composed for the voice, often with instrumental accompaniment; song. [1/6 definitions] |
| wah-wah |
an instrumental effect produced by closing and opening the bell of a horn with the hand or a hand-held mute. [1/2 definitions] |
| Woodrow Wilson |
the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921), who initially kept the United States out of World War I and then, in his second term, asked Congress to declare war on Germany. After the war, Wilson was instrumental in the creation of the League of Nations, an organization dedicated to promoting world peace (b. 1856--d.1924). |
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