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In music a section is "a complete, but not independent musical idea" (Bye 1993, p.51). Types of sections include including introduction or intro, exposition, recapitulation, verse, chorus or refrain, conclusion, coda or outro, fadeout, bridge or interlude; or a sectional form such as binary form. Music is an animal activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. ... In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece. ... An exposition may be one of the following: In music an exposition is the first of the sections in sonata allegro form. ... Recapitulation is the term used by Irenaeus to describe the manner in which God interacts with the world towards the final goal in space and time of mans salvation and redemption. ... Verse is a writing that uses meter as its primary organisational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses grammatical and discoursal units like sentences and paragraphs. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ... A conclusion can have various specific meanings depending on the context. ... Coda sign Coda (Italian for tail; from the Latin cauda), in music, is a passage which brings a movement or a separate piece to a conclusion through prolongation. ... In radio communications, fade describes the loss of signal strength at the receiver. ... In popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section. ... An interlude (between play) is: Look up Interlude in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music/theatre, as a separate creation/movement (see also overview of the different meanings of interlude in the Entracte article): a short play or, in general, any representation between parts of a larger stage production... Binary form is a way of structuring a piece of music. ...


Source

  • Bye, L. Dean (1993). Mel Bay Presents Student's Musical Dictionary. ISBN 0871663139.

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Digital Library of Appalachia: Music (279 words)
Included as well are such relative unknowns as the mouth bow with origins in Africa, Cherokee singing and dance music, Swiss-American singing and yodeling, Hungarian-American cymbalum playing, and the jug bandsound from the early 1900s comprised of a loose rural-urban mix of blues, hillbilly, and jazz.
Among the music's readily detectable influences are musical expressions arising from slavery, minstrel stage music, Civil War military music, and the dance music of Britain, Ireland and, in some instances, France and Germany.
The extensive radio program material dating from the late 1930s through the 1940s, provide data useful for studying the commercialization of the region's music and the extent to which urban music and entertainment forms were an influence in the region, especially prior to the advent of television.
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