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- in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- "Hamp" ranks among the great names in jazz history, having ... ===The discovery of the vibraphone=== During a 1930 recording date ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
- 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He ... an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... in part to her ideas about the limited role of a female composer, her works ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- songwriter, and band leader. A pioneer of the Western Swing genre, Wills ... At its height in the 1940s, Wills' brand of Western Swing was ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical ... and thus also in scores of Italian composers. [[File:Piccolo in D-flat ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:24, 26 December 2023
- country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka ... Mikhail Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, a village ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- The city of Thiruvananthapuram has been the center of cultural activities ... The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in ... Mascagni wrote a total of fifteen operas, plus an operetta, several ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... America as they have developed independent of African traditions from which ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- and newspaper publisher, who left a gift of $500,000 to Columbia University ... He thus sought to establish the school of journalism at Columbia University ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting ... The quartet became popular in the beginning of the Classical period ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ... tissue-like shaving from the inner tube of a bamboo or reed, is made taut ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School ... Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- is held vertically like a recorder, instead of transversely like the Western ... the shakuhachi was used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart ... From its first incarnation as the Manhattan Opera House, home of Oscar ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
