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- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- Geom-mu refers to a traditional sword dance practiced in Korea. Korean ... with a exceptional talent for sword dance. His talent brought him great ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- 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
- Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- in, studied at the Vera Lynn School of Dance and attended Pacific High ... history in 1963 and joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Two years later ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the African slave trade to Cuba and the ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- were often influenced by Armenian folk music. By synthesizing folk music ... In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- transliterations) is a sacred ritualized dance of Java, Indonesia, associated ... Traditionally, the dance was performed by young women only in the ...12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. Building upon the foundation ... the American public's view towards dance, was that "dancing is ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- Johann's enthusiasm for popular dance music. Tragedy struck his ... of the waltz as well as other dance music in Vienna. Strauss soon ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- in the entertainment arts, for example, in music, theater and dance. ... Improvisation is an important aspect of music in general. Musical ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Country/western dance or Country-western dance, also called Country ... is a melting pot of many different types of dance, with origins in the many ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- Each year an elaborate performance of ancient court music (with accompanying ... The Jongmyo Jerye-ak, the traditional court music of Joseon, is performed ...6 KB (909 words) - 00:56, 4 August 2022
- 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
- 1879 – July 21, 1968) was an early modern dance pioneer. Her exotic, oriental ... She and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded the influential dance school ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- was an advocate for gender balance in the dance world. Noted for making ... synagogue and at the Gramercy School of Music and Dance. He made his solo ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- Ballroom dance refers to a set of learned partner dances, which are ... to have originated in Argentina so ballroom dance has a truly international ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... re-emerged four years later in the R&B dance hit, "The Hucklebuck ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 1, 1958) was a notable central European dance artist and theorist, whose ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- a central figure in the history of European dance. Despite the fact that she ... in Stockholm, Sweden. The family history in dance dates back to the 1700s, ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Wallflower," better known as "Dance with Me Henry," which ... trio renamed the song "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" and ...20 KB (2,949 words) - 04:39, 22 March 2024
- it out for other public uses, including music recording. For a number of ... ==Classical Music and Dance== [[image:NYCS_rehersal_at_Manhattan_Center ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
- the twentieth century and remains a leading dance company in the world today. company most representative of American dance and has been sponsored by ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- 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
- was an African American modern dancer, dance teacher and choreographer ... and enthusiastic worship filled with gospel music and traditional spiritual ...17 KB (2,746 words) - 08:42, 23 July 2023
- Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Musical influences on disco include Motown, ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- were introducing revolutionary innovations to dance. Pavlova as a swan ... to make their own place in the world of dance. Between 1910 and 1925, her ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals ... quot; (#17, 1960); and "Save the Last Dance for Me" (#1, 1960). ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance, known as Bon Odori. This ... Bon Odori (Japanese: 盆踊り), meaning simply Bon dance, is a style ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- 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
- akin to 'old-fashioned big-band dance music'. the idea that swing was developed as dance music, when in fact, swing dancing ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- County, often referred to simply as the Music Center, is one of the three ... The Music Center's current mission is to go beyond its role as ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking ... most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Gandharvas, court servants of Indra. They dance to the music made by their ... tradition also influenced Bali. In Balinese dance, the theme of celestial maidens ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... and covers literature, movies, dance, music, theater and folk arts. ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- Russian composer, as well as an influential music teacher. His music linked ... Glazunov was born in St Petersburg. He studied music privately under ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- century American composer of classical music who was best known for his ... physical nurturing components that makes my music sound as it does, is that ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- of the arts. Confucian ceremonial music (Aak) had its origin in China ... musical instruments to be used for royal banquet music. ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ... widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely ... to Africa, namely Angola, where the semba dance was apparently the predecessor ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 11:45, 6 September 2022
- One of the foremost dance companies in the world, the New York City ... a student at the Petrograd Conservatory of Music, he studied piano and composition ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- genre, Wills merged traditional country music with sophisticated jazz-influenced ... was outdrawing the most famous northern dance orchestras. A captivating ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... rhythmic aspects which are typical of Latin dance music. ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- ==Old-time music as dance music== for dances, it is often characterized as dance music. However, there are also ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... the xylophone into Western classical music. Camille Saint-Saens first ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... Salsa essentially remains a form of dance music. Thus, many songs ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- Belly dance ( رقص شرقي|Raqs sharqi|oriental dance ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- and Russian styles, but because of the dance-public's appreciation ... the conservatory included advanced piano, music theory, counterpoint, harmony ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... embraced this kind of electronic dance music with more enthusiasm than ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- human spirit and to enrich the culture of music in America. major recognition as a composer of concert music. The Boston Symphony Orchestra ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- 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
- ) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in ... it out. It became popular as a secular dance form in the early part of ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- the mainstream and introduced electronic dance music to nightclubs. Electronic ... such has the popularity of electronic dance music grown). Some DJs such ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- 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
- ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian ... Sacred Indian dance drama, such as Krishnattom and Ramanattom, emerged ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisureCategory:Performing arts ... Lion dance (s=舞狮|t=舞獅|p=wǔshī) is a form of traditional ...24 KB (3,959 words) - 00:19, 5 September 2023
- Hearing him play daring solos in the dance music environment of the early ... powerful and swinging sound. It was dance music in the best sense of the ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... tribes. Adapted from Bordin's music, Kismet was produced on Broadway ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- Franciscan missionaries) relies upon song, music, and dancing, all performed ... Yaqui music is the music of the Yaqui tribe and people of Arizona ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Danse was to reestablish the perfection of dance. In the late seventeenth ... In 1672, the king gave the court's official music composer, Jean ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- at ease (Dickie’s Dream, Taxi War Dance, Panassié Stomp, Harvard ... * Wells, Dicky (as told to Stanley Dance). The Night People: The Jazz ...5 KB (863 words) - 03:26, 29 July 2022
- the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented ... the Majestic Theater, she began to sing and dance along to the performers on ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- 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
- up worn by its performers. A rich blend of music, dance, mime, and spectacular ... meaning “sing” (歌); bu, signifying “dance” (舞); and ki, meaning ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 22:22, 4 October 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
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- variety characteristic of earlier soul music; technically demanding, melodic ... The most prominent difference between funk and the soul music from ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... of songs was especially popular with dance music, and some dances were ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... were more associated with the popular dance music at that time. ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... The Opry acted as the performing heart of the country music industry ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 20:33, 13 September 2021
- 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... Blind Lemon Jefferson, was emphatically dance music, often played on a resonator ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music." Bluegrass takes its ... sound," have come to typify bluegrass music. The roots of bluegrass can ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- wrestler does a traditional "Eagle Dance" (devekh), which has ... wrestler does the traditional "Eagle Dance" (devekh), based on ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 19:59, 9 November 2022
- Ballet is a highly stylized dance form that developed into a popular ... In Aristotle's "Poetics," dance was likened to drama ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- incorporated into gymnastics, diving, and dance in the form of tumbling and ... with traveling circuses and the modern dance halls of Vaudeville. ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- and percussion instruments, and the music usually incorporates a strong ... ranging from the traditional martial music of John Philip Sousa and ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 03:09, 6 November 2022
- and he pioneered the fusion of modern dance with classical ballet. ... Bashkiria. As a child, he was encouraged to dance in Bashkir folk performances ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- pioneer and pre-eminent African-American tap dance performer. ... as the chief instigator for getting tap dance literally "up on its ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 03:51, 1 October 2023
- of Raja Ravi Varma, Theyyam and Kathakali dance movements, and Kalaripayattu ... magic, choreographed by Aparna Sindoor, the dance director of the film, uses ...14 KB (1,924 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville ... an inter-cultural bridge that brought his music to a wide audience and increased ...16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- On his music, during an interview, Bud said, "I wish it had been ... is only a term that they stuck onto his music. Bird was playing the blues ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ... as it is in classical. In electronic dance music, accurate knowledge of ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... being more specifically applied to chamber music genres with either a solo ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- African dance occupies central place in cultures throughout the African ... African dance is connected to Africa’s rich musical traditions expressed ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- band was intimately linked to Swing music’s dance tradition, serving ... It has often been deplored that Webb’s music has not been adequately ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 15:18, 10 December 2023
- would become a million-seller, a perennial dance favorite, and is one of the ... member Rosalind Ashford retired from the music business. However, several ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- Paiute mystic who founded the Ghost Dance movement. He prophesied an ... Paiute music was generally performed by men for dance and harvest ...23 KB (3,614 words) - 06:17, 18 November 2022
- Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... and culture and he expressed this in his music. His legacy as Norway's ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... on bagpipes, while based on traditional dance music originally played on bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- 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
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... are extant, as is a melodic, syncopated dance music called sinawi. In Korea ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- culture. However, African survivals can be seen in music, dance, speech, worship, funeral practices, and many other aspects of life. The strongest influence ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the music of Tahiti was dominated ... Herman Melville celebrated one such dance (he called it the "lori ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... The dance music element of western pop music can be traced back to ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
