Search results for "Western music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... ==Influence on western music== Beginning in the twentieth century, ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- foundation in both western and non-western music. This foundation is due ... scale, not counting both ends. In most Western music, the octave is divided ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- that contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale. All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ... in in China. Models were also developed in western and eastern Africa. ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point established by pitch relationships creating a set, in a given musical piece ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- of Illinois, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Western Reserve University ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- song (forming one of the roots of later Western music). When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- of the most popular American country and western singers of his era. His ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... traditional and "new age" kantele music are also available. ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- Most of Taverner's music is vocal, and includes masses, Magnificats ... His best known mass is based on a popular song, "The Western ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Most early written Western music was predominantly non-secular. Collections ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... in musical composition in the Western music for three hundred years ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- and band leader. A pioneer of the Western Swing genre, Wills merged ... At its height in the 1940s, Wills' brand of Western Swing was ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... traditional Argentine folk elements with Western classical conventions. In ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and ... to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ... not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... In a Nutshell is the first by a classical music professional in the Western ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- styles, which are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically associated with American country and/or western traditions ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
