Melic composition

Manuscript

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a document bearing the notation of a composition, normally with the composer's handwritten notation of a composition

Melic

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Greek

of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful

Maggiolata

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Italian

a May song, a Spring song

Air

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tune, tuneful song, art song accompanied by the lute or viola da gamba

Art song

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designed to stand alone and written for the concert hall, rather than a traditional or folk song

Ayre

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tune, tuneful song, art song accompanied by the lute or viola da gamba

Plainte

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a slow song or instrumental composition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Scat song

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nonsense words generally used only in the improvised chorus as part of a song that otherwise has ordinary words