Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- text=The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...611 bytes (96 words) - 00:17, 30 May 2023
- text=The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical ...739 bytes (113 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- text=Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds with a relation to pitch, rhythm, and tonality. Another definition ...808 bytes (118 words) - 17:53, 13 November 2021
- text=The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions ...936 bytes (130 words) - 23:31, 3 May 2023
- was an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance ...696 bytes (103 words) - 21:15, 7 September 2023
- century, as well as a highly regarded music critic. An intellectual and an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism ...841 bytes (128 words) - 15:55, 16 June 2022
- chronic health problems. He spend many years as a music instructor for the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children. The music ensemble of ...1,012 bytes (167 words) - 23:35, 22 January 2023
- text=A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest ...638 bytes (96 words) - 19:51, 28 June 2023
- text=African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African ...865 bytes (126 words) - 21:50, 26 February 2023
- "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. The specially designed ... most prestigious, significant awards in the music industry worldwide, encouraging ...1 KB (215 words) - 19:46, 20 February 2023
- urge to express emotion though the use of music. While singing using the ... in a wide variety of musical genres, from music to jazz to pop music. Adding ...1,020 bytes (155 words) - 17:29, 28 June 2023
- virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers. He consolidated the emerging concerto form ...1,007 bytes (148 words) - 18:22, 28 January 2023
- to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque ...709 bytes (106 words) - 16:36, 14 November 2021
- singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording career spanned more than four decades, its peak occurring between 1960 and 1964 ...769 bytes (110 words) - 23:51, 24 August 2023
- blues, R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She is represented in the Grammy Hall of Fame by two of her recordings: "River Deep - Mountain ...884 bytes (125 words) - 22:05, 21 December 2023
- text=A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. Session ...662 bytes (98 words) - 23:54, 18 May 2023
- as a leading musician of his era. Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest celebrities, his indirect association with political ...934 bytes (139 words) - 21:21, 31 January 2023
- The didgeridoo is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians (or aboriginal Australians) of northern Australia. Sometimes described as a ...700 bytes (100 words) - 17:40, 27 December 2022
- His French name was Jean de Grouchy, but he is more commonly known by his ... Almost one-third of Grocheio's treatise is devoted to liturgical ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- text=The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially a small natural horn with no valves. All pitch control is done by ...779 bytes (122 words) - 15:44, 22 June 2022
- musicien (“musician”). Equivalent to music, from Middle English musik ... # A composer, conductor, or a performer of music; more specifically ...966 bytes (114 words) - 16:43, 3 August 2023
- # A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music ... # A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. ...2 KB (337 words) - 18:56, 25 August 2023
- The selection of subject areas is meant as a general guideline, and ... * Art, Music, Literature, Sports and Leisure ...866 bytes (110 words) - 18:50, 28 June 2021
- # Ellipsis of country music. ===Usage notes=== usually refers to a sovereign state, that is, a nation with no administrative ...2 KB (231 words) - 20:29, 28 June 2023
- and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras ... Hassler most likely studied music as a boy with his father, who was ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... Like America itself, country/western dancing is a melting pot of many ...1 KB (180 words) - 16:28, 27 April 2024
- the creative artist and his/her audience is a central aspect of this principle. them and thus creates a new world which is necessarily, to a greater or ...4 KB (568 words) - 17:37, 20 December 2022
- {{Unification Aspects|Human beings use music to express emotion. Human ... with their giant bells facing forward is a stand-out feature in many ...1 KB (197 words) - 21:52, 24 February 2024
- Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... make up most of the current Imperial Palace Music Department. By this time ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- and 1970s and blends elements of Yoruba music, jazz and funk rhythms with ... 1960s. Kuti's experience with Highlife music in the Koola Lobitos Band ...4 KB (552 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most versatile ... where he was exposed to the latest Italian music, including the Venetian polychoral ...3 KB (369 words) - 17:08, 9 November 2022
- 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... some connection, probably as a director of music, with Santa Maria Formosa ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces ... Music of the Spheres is cited in old scriptures, and the Greek philosopher ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- {{Unification Aspects|The César Award is the national film award ... Like the other awards in entertainment (for television, music, theatre ...1 KB (238 words) - 17:14, 23 August 2023
- Adrian Willaert at St. Mark's there. He is known to have been organist ... composition, for he wrote a great deal of music for ceremonial affairs, some ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435 – 1511) was a Flemish composer and music ... He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important ... and thematic catalog, The sacred Choral Music of the Graun Brothers. ...2 KB (357 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- The octave is the span or intervallic space between one tone and another ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was ... of his life are sketchy. Given that he is often referred to in documents ...5 KB (748 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- the flute which has benefitted the world of music richly. ... Quantz also wrote trio sonatas and vocal music resulting from his interests ...4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 1 August 2022
- " the "Caruso of Mountain Music," and the "Backwoods ... and The Precious Jewel. He later formed a music publishing venture with Chicago ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad ... asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... the Blues, Old Man." Another example is the riff from Charlie Parker ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- smallpox), Landini became devoted to music early in life, and mastered ... prior to 1370. Evidence in some of his music also points to this: He dedicated ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... was in Ferrara at the time. Gesualdo's music, which contained quick modifications ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin ... boogaloo (also spelled "bugalu") is distinguished from the funk ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of ... teacher who contributed greatly to the music culture in Renaissance Europe ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of ... His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- and keyboard compositions. Although it is said that Reger helped to push ... Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one ... going to Venice from 1609-1613 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... numbered beats are stressed instead, the rhythm is syncopated. ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli ... in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly remembered ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Spenser's ... #:Cher is often called the goddess of pop music. ===Derived terms=== ...735 bytes (84 words) - 10:30, 28 December 2023
- text=Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the ...726 bytes (107 words) - 22:58, 23 November 2020
- was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... the key signature, the establishment of key is brought about via functional ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- text=Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, superstitions, and so forth ...777 bytes (110 words) - 18:48, 13 July 2023
- text=An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into an electrical current, which is then ...746 bytes (113 words) - 17:14, 14 November 2021
- 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian ... until the late 1940s, when American country music stations began playing his ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as "the ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. # (countable, music) A grace note; a short note that isn't technically ...3 KB (363 words) - 14:20, 1 April 2024
- ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and ... to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... Carissimi's exact birth date is not known, but it was probably ...7 KB (995 words) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia. He also ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is ... or chromatic. The arrangement of the bars is generally from low (longer ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- Époque (French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and European history, usually considered to begin around 1871–1880 and to end ...1,010 bytes (129 words) - 23:51, 28 April 2023
- programming, respectively. Today the Emmy is considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards, along with the Grammy for ...1,007 bytes (147 words) - 21:01, 29 April 2023
- {{Unification aspects|Belly dance is a Middle Eastern dance which ... Today, belly dancing has evolved into various styles, and is practiced ...939 bytes (147 words) - 16:18, 24 April 2024
- was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth ... Italian composer; most composers of sacred music in Italy at that time were ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell is the first by a classical music ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- , Bol'shoy Teatr, Large Theater) is a theater and opera company ... quot; theater (Малиый "Maly" is the Russian for "little"). ...6 KB (876 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for film, and a person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. ...896 bytes (142 words) - 19:06, 14 May 2023
- 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 ...6 KB (859 words) - 04:40, 27 February 2023
- , from sonāre (to sound). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek σύμφωνον ... of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a ...1 KB (165 words) - 16:20, 30 November 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- 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 ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions, and ... were deeply enamored with Couperin's music and paid tribute to him by ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- Social structure, Language, Religion, Art, Music, as topics for this section ... I'd like to add some Celtic art and music pictures, so can you tell ...8 KB (1,350 words) - 14:08, 25 June 2021
- 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 ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- were mostly indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that a significant number of African-Americans have European or Native American heritage ...1 KB (155 words) - 16:58, 13 November 2021
- #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. ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:52, 8 January 2024
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- ## In music, a position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. ... so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en. ...3 KB (437 words) - 20:03, 31 July 2023
- # (music) The lowness of a note. # (physics) The force at the Earth ... #:The moon's gravity is smaller than that of Earth. ...1 KB (154 words) - 19:22, 31 October 2023
