Music
art/activity of creating art using sound
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Treble Clef or G Clef, used when the lowest note is within the range of note 3G
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drum beat / pattern
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Songbook
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Musician
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Le guitariste flamenco Carlos Piñana dialoguant avec Waed Bouhassoun, une chanteuse syrienne renommée, jouant également de l'oud (luth).
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Mexico Metal Fest
Composer
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English: montage of great classical music composers - from left to right: first row - Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven; second row - Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi; third row - Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák; forth row - Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, Aram Khachaturian
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Scott Joplin
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Gabriel Fauré
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Leoš Janáček, Karel Kovařovic and Jan Kunc
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Philip Glass
Musical instrument
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instruments
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Main category: musical instruments
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History of music
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Ancient Greece, Music lesson, ~510 BC
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David with his harp, Paris Psalter, ~960, Constantinople
Medieval music
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Medieval music of France
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"Breves dies hominis" | |
by either w:Leonin or w:Perotin. Performed live. |
Medieval music of Germany
edit"O frondens" | |
by Hildegard of Bingen, performed live, from w:Ordo Virtutem. |
Medieval music of Iberia
edit"Santa Maria, Strela do Dia" | |
Cantiga 100, "Santa Maria, Strela do Dia" from Cantigas de Santa Maria. |
Renaissance music
editMain gallery: Audio files of Renaissance music.
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"Amicus meus" | |
by w:Tomás Luis de Victoria. |
Duuiensela | |
by w:Antonio de Cabezon |
Lamento della Ninfa | |
Lamento della Ninfa from Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi by Monteverdi. |
Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae | |
Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae by Thomas Tallis. |
Tant que Vivray | |
Tant que Vivray de Claudin de Sermisy (1490 - 1562), à l'orgue. |
"El Grillo" | |
El Grillo by Josquin des Prez |
"Du Tout Plongiet / Fors seulement" | |
Du tout plongiet by Antoine Brumel |
Baroque music
editMain gallery: Category:Audio files of Baroque period classical music.
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"L'estate" | |
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) — Movement 3: Presto from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi |
"Pièces à Une Viole" | |
Prelude - Fantaisie - Allemande – Double - Courante – Double - Sarabande - Gigue – Double |
"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" | |
Handel : Arrival of the Queen of Sheba |
"Super Flumina Babylonis" | |
Marc-Antoine Charpentier |
"Here the deities approve" | |
air Here the deities approve from "Welcome to all the pleasures - Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1683" |
"Fugue BWV 543" | |
Fugue from Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543, by Johann Sebastian Bach. |
Music around the world
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Africa
edit"Mandihiza Rahitsikitsika" | |
Mandihiza Rahitsikitsika - "Dance Sparrowhawk" is a very old Malagasy folk song and dance which tells about the joy of liberty evoked by the fly of a sparrowhawk |
"Village Drums of Freedom" | |
Village Drums of Freedom – Black Africa (djembe mix) |
Asia
edit"Len ngan" | |
Composition for monochord by Nguyen Thanh Tung, a noted Vietnamese monochord performer and compose |
"Saraswathi veena" | |
Saraswathi veena of Tamil Nadu |
"Chaldean Rite Martyrs prayer - Monday Matins" | |
Performed by the Ritual Ensemble of the Chaldean Church of the East in Jönköping |
"Avinu Malkeinu" | |
Jewish prayer - Sung by the Li-Ron choir, Herzliya, Israel |
"Waro Waro Kēzhda Qadumūna Āshnā" | |
Pashto music from Afghanistan |
"Om Navashivam" | |
Traditional Hindu song, Kumaon, Uttarakhand, India. |
"Carnatic flute" | |
A carnatic 8-hole flute |
"Raga" | |
Ranjit Makkuni's raga played on Sitar, with Akram Khan on Tabla |
"陽關三疊" | |
Guqin from China: Yangguan Sandie [Three Refrains on the Yang Pass Theme] |
North America
edit"Appalachian dulcimer" | |
Appalachian dulcimer |
"Jolé Blon" | |
Traditional Cajun tune |
"Bice'waan Song" | |
1897 recording of traditional Omaha Indian song |
"Yeah Yeah Yeah Long" | |
Rock music, Jason Shaw (composer), 2018 |
"Rollin at 5 - 210" | |
Ambient Music, soundtrack music, Kevin MacLeod, 2014 |
South America
edit"La Cumparsita" | |
Obra musical cuya línea melódica fue creada por el músico uruguayo Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897 - 1948) y es considerado el tango más difundido a nivel mundial. |
"Tico Tico no Fubá" | |
Brazilian Choro "Tico Tico no Fubá", by orquestra Colbaz. Composed by Zequinha de Abreu. Recorded in 1931 |
Europe
edit"En tu all da Bariz" | |
Gavotte du Bas-Léon, Bretagne |
"Uzundara" | |
Azerbaijani folk dance |
"Czech and Moravian folk songs" | |
Buskers Jindřich Neznámý playing and singing Czech and Moravian folk songs |
"Pater Noster" | |
Gregorian chant |
"Traditional Scottish musicians" | |
Traditional Scottish musicians, Fort William |
"Traditional Irish musicians" | |
Traditional Irish session recording in Galway. |
"Достойно есть" | |
Hymn of praise of the Mother of God in Bulgarian Orthodox Christian chant |
"Snow storm" | |
slow Piano song, 2019 |
"Verdächtig" | |
popular rock Duo Systemabsturz, electro-acustic elements, voice, 2019 |
"Nova Serenade" | |
gypsy Jazz, John Bartmann, 2021 |
Other - World
edit"WikiWarriors (AI-generated)" | |
electronic music, electric guitar, aimusic Prototyperspective, 2024 |
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Santur video demonstration of Persian classical technique, style and improvisation.
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Top Secret Drum Corps, Basel, Switzerland, at Edinburgh Tattoo 2012
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Norwegian song Oppi Fjellet
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Traditional instruments of Calabria
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Opera: the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor
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Tamil drumming
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Piphat music of Thailand
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Basque music
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Durga Immersion Music from Kolkata, India
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Christmas carol singing from Russia
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Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 - 4. Finale, Allegro assai appassionato
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Harpsichord: JS Bach BWV 999
Music in art
editAllegories of music
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Sebald Beham: Musica, XVI c.
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Justus of Ghent: Music
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Eugène Delaplanche: La Musique, 1870
Diagrams
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Guidonian hand
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Star Spangled Banner (1814)