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Music App Store Downloads on iTunes In Beethoven's case, short motifs, developed organically, came to replace melody as the most significant compositional unit . Later Romantic composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák, and Gustav Mahler used more unusual chords and more dissonance to create dramatic tension. It also saw a new diversity in theatre music, including operetta, and musical comedy and other forms of musical theatre. Also important is rhythm, which refers to repeated patterns of movement in sound. Rhythm involves elements like beats, or specific units of sounds played in tempo, which is the speed of the beats. During this period several major Music forms were defined that lasted into later periods when they were expanded and evolved further, including the fugue, the invention, the sonata, and the concerto. Important composers from the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach , George Frideric Handel , Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Lucio Vivald