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  • emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ... He also sought to bring contemporary European music to his homeland, specifically ...
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  • 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 ...
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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 ...
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  • collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... to fuse Hungarian folk music with the European music tradition. Due to the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was an Argentinian master composer of European classical music as well ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...
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  • performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... first to introduce American themes into European classical music, the first ...
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  • garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, ... In 1913 the United States was exposed to Cubism and modern European ...
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  • towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ... Still was very much of the attitude that "inspired" music ...
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  • and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the more conservative traditions in European music of his time. He had little ...
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  • or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... and a tremendous contribution to dramatic music; the further development ...
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  • occasionally reminiscent of Italian folk music. More generally, his music ... produced some of the most wonderful guitar music ever played, including “Guitar ...
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  • Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600, and encompassing works such as new pedagogy ...
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  • in present-day Bratislava, Slovakia. His music reflects the transition from ... Hummel, the expressiveness of his piano music showed the attributes of ...
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  • Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... from the regular, straight beats of European music. ===The African ...
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  • The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ... The song was a danzón, descended from European social dances like the English ...
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  • these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... akin to today's automobile horn). European predecessors and relatives ...
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  • 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...
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  • In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...
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  • development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... Italian Opera which had dominated the European music scene since the eighteenth ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... an instrument that was associated with folk music and buskers. ...
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  • both in English and in other languages. European poets such as the Symbolists ... do a good job."T.S. Eliot, "The Music of Poetry," 1942. Likewise ...
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  • particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...
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  • and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... of Paris. Eventually he found the European music scene too supercilious ...
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  • conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of the renowned ... leading promoter of contemporary classical music such as that of Béla Bartók ...
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  • The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... Edward W. Guo, known as Feldmahler, an 18-year-old Canadian music ...
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  • Russian composer, as well as an influential music teacher. His music linked ... Glazunov was born in St Petersburg. He studied music privately under ...
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  • existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. Having trained ... its culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship. In 1784, with ...
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  • Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... quot;rumba rhythm" was popular in European music beginning in the 1500s ...
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  • from polka, waltzes and other European music. Later periods saw considerable ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...
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  • to introduce Newtonian ideas to the European public. He also published ... lively intelligence made an impression in European intellectual circles. Voltaire ...
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  • and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...
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  • Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... age of nineteen, and to this he owed his European reputation. From Paris, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation ...
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  • pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...
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  • artist, has had a major impact on the music business. A Grammy Award ... Beginning his career as a gospel music artist and preacher, after ...
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  • Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key ... Taylor (Radano 1993, 108-109), have written music that is described as atonal ...
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  • the most important field collectors of folk music of the twentieth century ... movement. Lomax's research into folk music roots, systematized in a ...
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  • new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... injured Leo Ornstein, playing Chopin on a European tour. His recitals often ...
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  • of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written to be performed ... one of the most important forms in chamber music, and most major composers ...
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  • in Babylonia. A rich tradition of cantorial music flourished in later centuries ... in 70 C.E., a consensus developed that all music and singing would be banned ...
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  • of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... with the can-can, a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by ...
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  • Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... movement of the 1930s, notably in the folk music of Pete Seeger (1919-2014 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Tharp's work encompasses choreography with classical music, jazz ... Times They Are a-Changin, which places the music of Bob Dylan in the context ...
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  • Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He ... meeting important contributors to American music, promoting his vision of ...
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  • Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of ...
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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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  • Caribbean islands is rooted in simplistic European stereotypes, and that the ... local fusion between African and European music. It functions as a medium ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Although he resisted recording his music until near the end of his ... Portuguese refugees. When he started his music education playing the violin ...
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  • Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...
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  • Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...
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  • role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. Henderson’s music marks the transition from New Orleans jazz, with ...
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  • forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... popular as parlor instruments for classical music, while German concertinas ...
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  • 18, 1767, and is considered the first European visitor to the island. ... was 121,500. After Cook's visit, European ships landed on the island ...
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  • through his literary works, liturgical music, and hymns that living for ... and transformed the role of piety in European daily life. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • :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 ...
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  • 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval ... and virelai), which dominated secular European music of the fourteenth and ...
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  • 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... the church's firm stand against blues music and the sinful lifestyle ...
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  • actually the precursor for the Northern European mermaids, half-women and ... happening, drew his lyre and played his own music, which was powerful enough ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated ...
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  • the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano, chamber music ... as "a piece for orchestra without music." Still, upon closer ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • be seen as an apotheosis of instrumental music. As European composers sought ... This can especially be the case in music composed in the twentieth ...
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  • traditions. It has often been set to music, although the most famous ... The Hail Mary or Ave Maria in Latin has been set to music numerous ...
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  • of bulls. The court festivities of the European Middle Ages would often ... developed along similar lines as European acrobatics did during the ...
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  • with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... that ended the corps's existence. European rulers saw the advantage ...
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  • contributions to Protestant Church music in the second half of the ... this time he was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ ...
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  • Hokusai incorporated European elements such as landscape perspective ... and Sumiyoshi Naiki, and studied the European copper-plate engravings ...
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  • In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...
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  • Johan Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of European classical music ...
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  • family; his father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher ... art; the connection between visual art and music; the spiritual and symbolic ...
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  • by works of high culture, including books, music, and paintings. ... into a dark-colored melancholy around European symbolism." Given his ...
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  • the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... and organ as a child, taught largely by the music director of his Baptist church ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Lead singer John Fogerty retreated from music in the late 1980s but ... stint. After some eight years of making music together, the group became ...
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  • centuries, which greatly changed Javanese music, was the creation of specific ... the court ritual when in the presence of European guests. ...
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  • grammar, logic, mathematics, astronomy, music, and geometry more than the ... upon if the student is involved with music or athletic programs) school ...
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  • During this time Cooper also pursued music, writing various songs ... France, and Germany, removing all European influence in 1934. ...
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  • Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples ... engraving, painting, body ornamentation, music, and the painstaking decoration ...
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  • Aristotle had maintained over Western European thought for eight centuries ... Aristotle had exercised over Western European thought for eight centuries ...
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  • * In music and acoustics, the frequency of the standard pitch A above ... and B—that is, a minor third above the European frequency). The frequency ...
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  • book's front cover) are EAN-13 (European Article Number 13; barcodes ... ===International Standard Music Number=== The International Standard ...
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  • In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Since the Renaissance period in European music, much music which is ...
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  • Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...
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  • branch of the Symbolist movement in European art, and was mostly known ... Baudelaire and Verlaine, while the subtle music, ominous allusions, arcane ...
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  • regarded as the grandfathers of the jam band music style. for their dedication to the band's music. Some followed the band from ...
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  • for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...
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  • The term medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages. This period contains compositions written by kings (Roy Henry ...
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  • A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...
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  • world. The Paris Opéra Ballet dominated European ballet throughout the eighteenth ... In 1672, the king gave the court's official music composer, Jean ...
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  • over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...
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  • The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... Johann Buschmann, registered the first European patent for a free-reeded ...
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