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In music, the term value describes the relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note has the
value of two eighth notes.
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In music a variation is a repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key. It is the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, and yet done in such a way that the essential features of the original still preserve their identity. In ballet a variation is a solo dance.
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In music, a verse is a portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
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In music, vigoroso is a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
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The villanella is an old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
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The viol was a stringed musical instrument of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
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The viola was a stringed musical instrument resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.
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The violin is a family of stringed musical instruments.
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The violoncello (or cello) is a stringed musical instrument about twice the size of a violin, and with sides deeper in proportion. It has four strings, tuned in fifths, its notes numbering from the highest string, being formerly tuned G, D, A, E and more recently tuned A, D, G, C with the top string being tuned to A.
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The virginal was a musical instrument used in the 16th century and somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like a small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note.
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In music, vivace is a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
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In music, volume describes the amount, fullness, quantity, or calibre of a voice or tone. That is, how loud it sounds.
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A vox humana is a reed stop in an organ, made to imitate the human voice.
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