Music
- Mode (music), a classification system of musical tonalities
- Modus (medieval music), several other technical senses of modus or mode in medieval music theory
- Gregorian mode, a pitch organization of Gregorian chant
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performanceBeethovens Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performancewhereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“Your remark that clams will lie quiet if music be played to them, was superfluousentirely superfluous.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)