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- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 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 it ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- an Argentinian master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific ... Argentine folk elements with Western classical conventions. In so doing ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- in present-day Bratislava, Slovakia. His music reflects the transition from ... As the bridge between the classical and romantic eras, Hummel showed ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- December 3, 1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- his music could be very close to European classical music—a genre he practiced ... produced some of the most wonderful guitar music ever played, including “Guitar ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- to introduce American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American ... to Europe, realizing that a European classical music training would be ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- twentieth century American composer of classical music who was best known ... physical nurturing components that makes my music sound as it does, is that ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- November 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
- 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
- of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written to be performed ... The quartet became popular in the beginning of the Classical period ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of the renowned ... also a leading promoter of contemporary classical music such as that of Béla ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... akin to today's automobile horn). European predecessors and relatives ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Algarotti's writings include several studies on classical themes ... lively intelligence made an impression in European intellectual circles. Voltaire ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- 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
- Tharp's work encompasses choreography with classical music, jazz ... Times They Are a-Changin, which places the music of Bob Dylan in the context ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- an oboist play a concert A (A440). Some European orchestras tune to a slightly ... With the resurgence of interest in early music in the mid-twentieth century ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. Having trained ... its culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship. In 1784, with ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... Edward W. Guo, known as Feldmahler, an 18-year-old Canadian music ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- Pictures). His passion for ancient Italian music led to an interest in musicology ... his personal artistic quest to create music that he hoped would speak ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- African-American syncopation and European classical music, though this description ... African-American syncopation and European classical music to create an American ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... an instrument that was associated with folk music and buskers. ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- used frequently by the most famous of the classical authors (Homer's The ... actually the precursor for the Northern European mermaids, half-women and ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... In the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, the term sonata ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- 1886 – October 13, 1979) was an English classical composer and violist best ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... In an era when African-American music was known largely through demeaning ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- his later career was largely devoted to gospel music. After serving ... records. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990. He ...12 KB (1,774 words) - 06:08, 27 February 2023
- Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... Waller started his musical career at an early age. He studied classical ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ... metronome to indicate specific tempi in his music. Prior to that time tempo ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- hierarchies which characterized European classical music between the seventeenth ... and early twentieth century in European classical music. It was described ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano, chamber music ... as "a piece for orchestra without music." Still, upon closer ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... similar to the importance of Latin in European culture. There are contemporary ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- grammar, logic, mathematics, astronomy, music, and geometry more than the ... of gymnasium schools that focused less on classical education and more on liberal ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- Various forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional ... most popular as parlor instruments for classical music, while German concertinas ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- Yet ironically, despite his advocacy of classical Latin as the language of ... most of his time studying, particularly classical Latin, and in particular ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... Daily] – daily magazine about European classical music, illustrated with ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- Although he resisted recording his music until near the end of his ... Portuguese refugees. When he started his music education playing the violin ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- be seen as an apotheosis of instrumental music. As European composers sought ... This can especially be the case in music composed in the twentieth ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- :Make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound ... The shofar is played much like a European brass instrument, with the ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the figures ... quot; may also derive from the Indo-European root men, from which the ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... Old-time music has its foundations in the family which helps to generate ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... The polka had become very popular with European immigrants to the ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... Moreover, another variant of rumba music and dance was popularized ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- later works were the foundation of the classical style, composing in the ... this time he was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- | Genre = Classical | Occupation = Pianist | Years_active ... | Label = Columbia, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Sony Classical ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- which developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of classical Latin ... Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual and cultural movement ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- era, a central figure in the history of European dance. Despite the fact ... of the Romantic ballerina, replacing the classical style. Marie's fragility ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- 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
- The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... Johann Buschmann, registered the first European patent for a free-reeded ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- 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
- gave birth to the Romantic Ballet, the classical form of ballet known throughout ... In 1672, the king gave the court's official music composer, Jean ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- he is one of the most recognized Czech classical music composers, and many ... Smetana was a child prodigy who grew up in a family that cultivated ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- stringed instrument used in Indian classical music. He became famous ... He composed for and played with classical musicians including violinist ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- regarded as the grandfathers of the jam band music style. for their dedication to the band's music. Some followed the band from ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- Of these many are rare or obsolete, and music written for them is usually ... In European classical music, clarinets are part of the standard orchestral ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- among his contemporaries, and his music has remained an inspiration ... section. He was a devoted fan of European classical music. Contemporaries ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- The Ossian cycle would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ... to bring about the romantic movement in European, and especially in German ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- it and its Greek root from the Proto-Indo-European root *tel, 'to uphold ... on his shoulders, but this is incorrect. Classical art shows Atlas holding ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical ... effect and in authentic performances of Baroque music. Timpanists will ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. Henderson’s music marks the transition from New Orleans jazz, with ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- ==Castrati in the European Classical tradition== court chapel at Munich by 1574, where the music director was Heinrich Schütz ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland ... but grew up in Vienna. He began his formal music training as a pianist, studying ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread ... in China and Greece) held to the idea that music, mathematics and science ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. ... painting, sculpture, architecture, music...this century appears to ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- tone of a viola, particularly in orchestral music, can have unintended consequences ... are occasionally employed both in European classical music (where the technique ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- Caribbean islands is rooted in simplistic European stereotypes, and that the ... The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- " According to the American Academy of Music, the horn is considered, ... through the sounds and meanings of music and sound. [[Image:Range frenchhorn ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- by works of high culture, including books, music, and paintings. ... into a dark-colored melancholy around European symbolism." Given his ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- the style referred to as Impressionist music, a term which he dismissed ... Beethoven, and Brahms to include non-European harmonies--notably Russian ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- of the early Romantic period. He revived classical approaches within the Romantic ... and Robert Schumann; instead, he employed classical structures such as symphonies ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Among the larger genres are European classical music, popular music or ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... there was an increasing interest in Western music, and attempts to adapt both ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- playing with Jack Hylton and other European bands that were far inferior ... whatever their status in the world of music. In Europe, they were not ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- like a king.Hazrat Inayat Kahn, The Music of Life (Omega Publications ... incorporating the basic elements of music, colors, nature, as well ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- brother's band. Powell had learned classical piano from an early age ... harmonic series, beyond the confines of classical harmony to the extent possible ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- produced by striking metal bars. In blues music, the harmonica is often casually ... While the angle and bow harps held popularity elsewhere, European ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- In addition, Pan was later known for his music, which was capable of arousing ... The theonym pan is of Indo-European derivation, following from the ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... that ended the corps's existence. European rulers saw the advantage ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... As bagpipes became entrenched in European culture, their presence ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- 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
- Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s ... Disco was also important in the development of Hip-Hop music, as well ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- – July 1, 1958) was a notable central European dance artist and theorist ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theater of late nineteenth–century ... was Petipa's The Magic Pills, to the music of Léon Minkus. Petipa& ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- of Hector and Andromache, and three other classical compositions. ... in a year, generally dealing with classical or allegorical subjects ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often ... His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- Johan Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of European classical music ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- was a prolific and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous output ... clergy in his native Austria. Unlike the music of J.S. Bach and the composers ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
