Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and keyboard compositions. Although it is said that Reger helped to push ... Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- was an Italian musician, composer, and music theorist who, through his ... As an accomplished music theorist in counterpoint, Martini established ...6 KB (832 words) - 13:14, 22 May 2024
- composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one ... going to Venice from 1609-1613 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 14:08, 22 May 2024
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... numbered beats are stressed instead, the rhythm is syncopated. ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- 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
- was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli ... in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly remembered ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Spenser's ... #:Cher is often called the goddess of pop music. ===Derived terms=== ...735 bytes (84 words) - 10:30, 28 December 2023
- text=Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the ...726 bytes (107 words) - 22:58, 23 November 2020
- was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... the key signature, the establishment of key is brought about via functional ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- text=Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, superstitions, and so forth ...777 bytes (110 words) - 18:48, 13 July 2023
- text=An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into an electrical current, which is then ...746 bytes (113 words) - 17:14, 14 November 2021
- 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian ... until the late 1940s, when American country music stations began playing his ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as "the ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023