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  • Canon Muzzillo. As he had shown talent for music, Jommelli was enrolled in ... of admission, his first known church music, a five-voice fugue a cappella ...
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  • musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular recording artist on the ... Floor Elevators. A film devoted to his music—The Blues Accordin' ...
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  • new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... Bok, founder of the Curtis Institute of Music. As critical as she was to ...
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  • However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ... sessions and live performances; recording music for advertising, film, television ...
    21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
  • Michael Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was a popular ... generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a ...
    11 KB (1,729 words) - 16:53, 9 November 2022
  • to make a major mark in the folk and rock music scenes. His unique, virtuoso ... Gary became interested in music while still a small boy. At the age ...
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  • on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music which were used throughout ... === Mathematics and Music === Boethius wrote four textbooks on mathematics ...
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  • monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema ... === Audio and music === *Electrobel Community—More than 10,000 electronic ...
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  • soulful sound of the shakuhachi made it popular in Western pop and jazz music. ... and play a wide repertoire of original Zen music, ensemble music with koto ...
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  • The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... The Opry acted as the performing heart of the country music industry ...
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  • the blues, southern gospel, and country music into a distinctively American ... Street. Although Memphis was famed for its music, surprisingly there was no ...
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  • Patsy Cline (Sept. 8, 1932—March 5, 1963) was a country music singer ... girl. As she grew older, she began to play popular nightclubs. To support her ...
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  • In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...
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  • musician and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s ... Minnesota, as Ray Edward Cochran. He took music lessons in school but quit ...
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  • with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville ... an inter-cultural bridge that brought his music to a wide audience and increased ...
    16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
  • tone of a viola, particularly in orchestral music, can have unintended consequences ... which allow a greater playing range. Modern music is played on these instruments ...
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  • and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer ... funk and of politically conscious African-American music. ...
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  • operas, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music, and concertos. Dvořák ... melodies into his symphonic and chamber music. Among his most widely recognized ...
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  • – January 1, 1997) was a country and folk music singer-songwriter, performer ... He emerged in the late sixties among the renaissance in country music ...
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  • by introducing gospel forms into secular music, helped lay the foundation ... how to read Braille, as well as to write music and play various musical ...
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