... fast, slow, and medium. Italian terms used in musical notation denote more than a dozen different tempos, which included allegro, moderato, and lento. Within the changing meter of rhythm, song notes of various pitches were intertwined. Tone color (timbre) distinguished the sound and characteristics that separated one instrument or voice from another. The classical era between 1750 and 1820 was defined ... fully orchestra very rarely, almost exclusively in opera and large-scale choral works and never in symphonies, where trombones were not used until Beethoven's time. Romantic composers ...

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