Search results for "Music theory" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • ear. A strong foundation in composing, music theory, and orchestration is ... to creating a unified realization of the music being performed. ...
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  • a quantum leap in terms of technique and theory. Tatum's extensive use ... Somehow, Tatum’s music could also be compared to a black diamond ...
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  • by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an audience ... analyses of catharsis in Aristotle's theory of drama have had a lasting ...
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  • instruments. He wrote a notable book on music, Kitab al-Musiqa (The Book ... he charmed the court with his discourse and music, and then refused the Sultan’s ...
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  • to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the ... Poulet.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. (New York: ...
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  • an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...
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  • and operas. He was also a highly regarded music conductor. ... he also received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from ...
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  • Fioravanti at 18 months, began studying music theory at two, the piano at three ... of the old school of Italy. Having learned music from his grandfather whom ...
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  • norms. It was also influenced by the theory of evolution and uniformitarianism ... quot; was similar to the philosophical theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
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  • the universe was erroneous, he based his theory on observations that he and ... Ptolemy also wrote an influential work, Harmonics, on music theory ...
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  • Baudelaire and Verlaine, while the subtle music, ominous allusions, arcane ... to forge a unity of prose, poetry, and music in much of his literature ...
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  • The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... In music theory, the period saw several advances over previous practice ...
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  • some of the humanities (including literary theory) and to cultural anthropology. ... semiotics and logic as facets of a wider theory. For a summary of Peirce ...
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  • for one of the great revolutions of psychological theory. ... other subjects as well, including history, music, art, physiology, and ethnology ...
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  • was at once a pleasure to the eye as music is to the ear, but "mingled ... these ideas were amplified in critical theory through the work of Jean ...
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  • who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... In an era when African-American music was known largely through demeaning ...
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  • a broad knowledge encompassing medicine, music, cosmology, astronomy, mathematics ... and leisure to join the inner circle. Music featured as an essential ...
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  • and vertically (as harmonies). Music theory, within this realm, is ... study of how to read notation involves music theory. Written notation varies ...
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  • red and white trousers. However, a popular theory is that Uncle Sam was named ... Another theory suggests that Uncle Sam was a creation by Irish immigrants ...
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  • I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ... a fundamental relationship with all other music in the world…. A composer ...
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