Search results for "Music, Popular" - New World Encyclopedia
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- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... He particularly promoted contemporary music. He also continued to teach ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... where he led the festival performances of music for Queen Christina of Sweden ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts. Both as a solo artist ... but more streamlined than the honky-tonk music of the late 1940s and early ...12 KB (1,785 words) - 19:09, 17 February 2022
- of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... with the can-can, a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages, thirds ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... identified as a distinct genre of country music in the 1950s. Unlike country ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... composer, saw the golden age of Carnatic music in Kerala. The contribution ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... composed using the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- A number of Respighi's most popular works draw from Biblical ... his personal artistic quest to create music that he hoped would speak ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- the most important field collectors of folk music of the twentieth century ... movement. Lomax's research into folk music roots, systematized in a ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one ... to his love of war, however, Charles loved music, and in his employ, Busnois ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has ... and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music. He enjoyed immense success ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- Minnie Pearl was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, she ... with singer Roy Acuff. She also became a popular comedy act outside the Opry ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer ... and at eleven wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera, The ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 18:54, 21 May 2024
- these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... Halliday in 1811. This bugle was highly popular and in wide use until c ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
