a short keyboard piece or pieces from the seventeenth- or eighteenth-centuries
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Prelude
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a piece that is played before another piece or group of pieces
Albumblatt
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a page or leaf from a book, or a short, easy piece
Bagatelle
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French, German
trifle, unpretentious; a short, light instrumental piece of music of no specified form, usually for piano
Chaconne
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a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, play…
Chacony
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Character piece
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a musical piece representing a location, mood or personality
Ciacona
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Italian
slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, played…
Dhun
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a short piece in the style of Indian folk music