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

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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...
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  • Teddy Wilson was a marvelous pianist whose music was filled with elegance ... their mark on Wilson, though Wilson’s music is more simple and straightforward ...
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  • of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... deciding that the study and composition of music was his true passion. He ...
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  • 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...
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  • August 13, 1912) was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, ... composers in the world, and the best of his music contains a vitality and charm ...
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  • contrasts of mood in nocturnes, and he thus is best known for being the first ... Field is best remembered for his eighteen nocturnes, which are single ...
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  • periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an ...
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  • in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions, and ... were deeply enamored with Couperin's music and paid tribute to him by ...
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  • iconic to fans of both country and pop music. Robbins scored numerous ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...
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  • In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...
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  • #039; most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ... 5, 1993. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999. ...
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  • performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...
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  • Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...
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  • place in the anthologies of English church music, and is considered among ... Little is known about his early life, but there seems to be agreement ...
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  • 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and ... The spelling "Dunstaple" is generally to be preferred, since ...
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  • sangen (literally "three strings") is a three-stringed musical instrument ... It is derived from a Chinese stringed instrument with a drum-like ...
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  • and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It is believed by many that the work ...
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  • Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves ... In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ...
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  • a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his opera Prince Igor, and ...
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  • a major pop success for Georgia Gibbs. James is best known, however, for her ... widely varied in styles and genres of music. Her 1992 soul album, The ...
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