Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • a Finnish composer of European classical music, and one of the most popular ... On his views about composing he once stated, "Music is for me ...
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  • singer, guitarist, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of ... Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association and the Academy ...
    17 KB (2,495 words) - 17:36, 23 May 2024
  • wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals ... as bass, and Walter Adams on guitar. This is the group which produced the ...
    11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
  • or the Elvis of the East, Ustad Nusrat is credited with taking the tradition ... Qawwali is traditionally an artistry passed down through a lineage ...
    14 KB (2,139 words) - 01:20, 17 November 2022
  • as well as the creative arts, particularly music. Gandharvas also have symbolic ... In the Hindu tradition, the term gandharva is used in both the singular ...
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  • The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family that dates ... Historically, flutes have often been used in the playing of sacred ...
    19 KB (2,947 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
  • He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies and instrumental ... organist) Elgar was exposed to liturgical music from his earliest years and ...
    21 KB (3,203 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
  • singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer ... Marley is best known for his ska, rocksteady, and reggae songs, which ...
    16 KB (2,442 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
  • Bruno Walter is ranked among the twentieth century's greatest ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...
    16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
  • family; his father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher ... a painting by Kandinsky created in 1903. It is also claimed that the name ...
    11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
  • Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...
    27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
  • important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered ... came from a long line of foresters; nothing is known about Gluck's mother ...
    14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
  • War I. He cause a major controversy in the music world in 1935 when he revealed ... of the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of ...
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  • composer and lutist of the late Renaissance music as well as a nobleman and ... Most likely he was born in Venosa, but little else is known about ...
    18 KB (2,879 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
  • Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... being more specifically applied to chamber music genres with either a solo ...
    27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
  • project Pound and Eliot had begun. Zukofsky is generally seen as the leader ... revival would commence. Today, Zukofsky is seen as a crucially important ...
    11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
  • " Arabic آمين ’Āmīn) is a declaration of positive affirmation ... The word is widely used in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Muslims ...
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  • many consider the first true composer of jazz music. A light-skinned ... Choosing a life in the fledgling new music and its licentious ethos ...
    15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
  • has been called "the queen of Tejano music".Rick Mitchell, [http://web ... both the old and new generation of Latino music fans in the US. At the 1987 ...
    16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
  • The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...
    31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023

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