piece of music

collocation in English

meaningsofpieceandmusic

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piece
noun[C]
uk
/piːs/
us
/piːs/
a part ...
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music
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmjuː.zɪk/
us
/ˈmjuː.zɪk/
a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments, voices, or computers, or a combination of these, intended to give pleasure to people listening ...
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(Definition ofpieceandmusicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpiece of music

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We can also observe that the percentage is higher when the mother is singing than when the infants are listening to apieceofmusic.
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Hearing apieceofmusicevoked memories from a person's past, and spurred conversation with others about past experiences.
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As an art, it often found creative ways to render apieceofmusicauthentic to another form or medium.
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The song 'just happened' - they are like an authentic genius composer visited by the muse and effortlessly delivered of a perfectly formedpieceofmusic.
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The musical result was a collectivepieceofmusic, created by a multitude of individual contributions, each elaborated collectively.
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Any method by which a composer produces apieceofmusiccan be called an algorithm.
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As in anypieceofmusic, this motion is a metaphor for the motion of the listener's body.
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The second section of the book contains two chapters that deal with the cognitive processes involved when someone listens attentively to apieceofmusic.
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Such a modification allows thepieceofmusicto be played back in a different key without affecting the tempo (speed).
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Certainly, someone could take some predefined data, such as weather data, and use mostly mapping techniques to generate apieceofmusic.
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In the end, besides apieceofmusicthat is clearly a communal effort, there are always significant conceptual gains.
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This may be so whether this is in reference to different versions of the samepieceofmusic, or within a single performance.
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Students were provided with three musical stimuli and were asked to compose apieceofmusicbased on their selected stimulus.
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This entails that apieceofmusicis always interpreted differently by people raised in different cultural contexts.
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What makes apieceofmusicwhat it is?
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This is something that is exterior to the particularpieceofmusicitself.
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In compositional terms, we might say simply that you can't write apieceofmusicall at once: the grip-slip relationship between vision and realisation.
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It required the pupils to devise apieceofmusicbased on a series of elements derived from the listening task.
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A musical gesture is a planned change (randomness can be planned) in musical parameters as part of apieceofmusic.
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