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Chord
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The term chord derives from the Middle English
accord and has two related semantic fields in music theory: an older, more general one and a later, more specific one. In both, there is a connection with making music with instruments, for chord ultimately derives from the Middle Latin
chorda (“cord,” “string”).The earlier terminological tradition refers to the practice of tuning musical instruments. Instruments, by this process, are brought into “accord.” Chord also denotes the result of a simultaneous playing of “tuned” instruments. Although …
Date:
2019-10-14
Baroque
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1. Introduction The term Baroque defines an era within the early modern period perceived by scholarly consensus in terms of its specific aesthetic and cultural characteristics in the spheres of art, literature, and music. It is therefore not a term drawn from the era itself (as were, for instance, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Romanticism), but a retrospective chronological and thematic construction of scholars seeking to characterize works of art, literature, and music and their particular desi…
Date:
2019-10-14
