Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the ... A similar instrument, the 'setar', is used to this day in Iran and ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- action), and "percussus" (which is a noun meaning "a beating ... and logs were the next steps in the evolution of music. ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- his later career was largely devoted to gospel music. After serving ... records. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990. He ...12 KB (1,774 words) - 06:08, 27 February 2023
- artist, has had a major impact on the music business. A Grammy Award ... Beginning his career as a gospel music artist and preacher, after ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that is ... soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- were largely spent writing essays rather than music. He had no more ... It was Richard Wagner's music that inspired Dallapiccola to start ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including ... an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has ... and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music. He enjoyed immense success ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- the most important field collectors of folk music of the twentieth century ... movement. Lomax's research into folk music roots, systematized in a ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- Minnie Pearl was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, she ... southwest of Nashville. She graduated from what was then Nashville's ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- won additional fans in the growing folk music market and the band brought ... and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- rhythmic accompanist. His career is forever linked to that of legendary ... occasionally reminiscent of Italian folk music. More generally, his music ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts. Both as a solo artist ... but more streamlined than the honky-tonk music of the late 1940s and early ...12 KB (1,785 words) - 19:09, 17 February 2022
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... been imposed upon the culture. The result is a distinctively Indian cultural ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- of Heinrich Isaac. This interest in early music would greatly influence his ... Webern's music was denounced as "cultural Bolshevism" ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
