Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body ... oratorios and masses, chorus or choir is usually understood to imply ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... Mississippi in the early 1920s, and wrote what is perhaps his earliest song ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician ... However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago that formed ... level of social awareness in Mayfield's music. The Impressions ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- A ballad is a story, usually portraying a dramatic or exciting episode ... of recording events. The retelling in song is communicated with a refrain ...9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023
- The dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument of two main varieties ... The word dulcimer is Graeco-Roman, meaning "sweet song," ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- County, often referred to simply as the Music Center, is one of the three ... The Music Center's current mission is to go beyond its role as ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, in New York ... Built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890, it is one of the ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... a profound understanding for the action one is performing. This fusion of ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- also studied composition and began to write music. counterpoint, thus becoming the only formal music teacher Schoenberg would have. ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- - October 4, 2022) was an American country music performer. One of the leading ... and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988. ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- Free verse (occasionally referred to as vers libre) is a term describing ... "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," predominantly ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- respected and influential American country music singers and guitarists. Although ... out of high school to pursue a career in music. During his time as a DJ ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 23:21, 3 May 2023
- #: The value of my children's happiness is second only to that ... # That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals ...2 KB (326 words) - 22:00, 4 August 2023
- Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity ... . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano, chamber music ... To the general public, Ravel is probably best known for his orchestral ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- the blues, southern gospel, and country music into a distinctively American ... Street. Although Memphis was famed for its music, surprisingly there was no ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:58, 23 December 2022
- few. His attachment to his Jewish background is displayed both in his life ... in Paris, where his father lived as a music teacher. Charles-Valentin ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- later taught harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection ... he began to concentrate more seriously on music. Balakirev encouraged him ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
