Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and leading composers in the rise of modern music in Russia. As a result he ... Prokofiev is famous for numerous compositions, including the popular ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... == What is music? == Music is often defined by contrast with noise ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. ... revival and a renewal of respect for sacred music in the era when feeling and ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last ... The official "birthplace" of Memorial Day is Waterloo, New ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument ... most common string instruments in Western music are those in the violin, ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- entire postwar development of American folk music. He was a first-hand observer ... Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 23:31, 17 May 2023
- with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... Whether this is or is not an acceptable role for an army, it was political ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- anticipation of modern developments, Basie is regarded as one of jazz music’s ... Basie is known for his inimitable statements on the piano, but it ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- Tyner, Keith Jarrett, and Bill Evans, he is considered one of the foremost ... musical performances but also an education in music. ==Life== ...29 KB (4,117 words) - 21:00, 9 December 2023
- May 26, 1933) was the first great country music recording artist. Known as ... style numbers, and even cowboy tunes. He is remembered most, however, for ...23 KB (3,146 words) - 13:11, 1 August 2022
- later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is a American singer-songwriter ... with sales exceeding 150 million units. He is also noted for his musical ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts ... Amherst is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological ... the best of this world in its imagery. It is up to humankind to manifest ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- Theatre later that year, as a coryphee, that is, bypassing the corps de ballet ... specifically. Today, this revised version is still performed at the Mariinsky. ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four music albums recorded between 1966 ... again at the end of her first semester. It is a widely held belief her decision ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 09:39, 1 April 2024
- Timpani is an Italian plural, the singular of which is timpano. However ... and sometimes aluminum. The drumhead is affixed to a hoop (also called ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- in the 1960s and 1970s. Gaye's soul music performances were unique ... However, with his successful 1971 album, What's Going On, and subsequent ...27 KB (4,247 words) - 08:37, 10 March 2023
- Clapton in particular played a large role is the renewed interest in Johnson ... for transportation. He traveled widely and is known to have performed in ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- through his literary works, liturgical music, and hymns that living for ... (moral essays, severe and forceful). He is noted to have written a few ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- and great skill with the keyboard. Today, he is generally considered to be ... toured throughout Europe giving concerts. He is credited with inventing the ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
