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  • Bunraku. The shamisen is used in several genres of music, including nagauta ... In most genres the shamisen is played with a large weighted plectrum ...
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  • ==Influence of Musical Genres on Calypso== [[Image:Harry Belafonte 1954 b.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Portrait of Harry Belafonte, February 18, 1954 ...
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  • free jazz, and other contemporary musical genres to create the sound. As is often the case with Afrocentric genres of music, politics play ...
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  • influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres. The social and political ... Philadelphia soul and most other soul genres were dominated by disco-inflected ...
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  • ==Genres, themes, and interests== Book collectors often specialize in one or more genres or sub-genres ...
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  • === Genres === Principal liturgical forms which endured throughout ... Common sacred genres were the mass, the motet, the madrigale spirituale ...
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  • functions of specific musical forms and genres, and touted music as a cure for the ailments of society, imbuing it with the power to restrain ...
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  • a major market. Soon, distinct sub-genres began to appear. Cross-over ... ==Gospel music genres== ===Urban Gospel=== Urban Gospel had its roots ...
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  • is often used as an umbrella term for genres such as punk and grunge in ... 039;s image rather than its songs. The two genres have some crossovers. For ...
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  • secular music, and his output reflected both genres. He was born in Nuremberg and died in Frankfurt am Main. ==Biography== Hassler most likely ...
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  • Session musicians may play in a wide range of genres or specialize ... to the type of recording session and the genres of music being performed ...
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  • ==Genres== Computer and video game genres forms of media may be categorized into genres based on many factors such ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Various musical genres such as hardcore, grindcore, and other aggressive forms of music have recently adopted this concept. Many times during ...
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  • style of music, and numerous, diverse sub-genres fall under the umbrella of ... that didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...
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  • ==Genres== Genres of the period included the history play, which depicted English ...
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  • bands, as well as various other musical genres. Sousaphones were originally ... ==Genres and notable players== [[File:Jazz Funeral for Democracy - ...
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  • direct descendants: the 1980s and 1990s genres of house music and its harder ... which has influenced many other latter genres such as Rap, Hip-Hop, Techno ...
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  • 20 years, Reger produced an enormous output in all genres, nearly always in abstract forms, although few of his compositions are well known today. Many ...
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  • dominating the hit parade. Various sub-genres of samba evolved in the succeeding ... Today, the samba remains as one of the most popular musical genres ...
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  • shared in these tastes, but also listened to genres like mambo or chachacha. There was much intermixing of Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans and Cubans ...
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  • ==Genres and Subjects of Korean Painting== The genres of Buddhist art showing the Buddha, or Buddhist monks, ...
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  • easy to carry. It is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as ... instrument, and is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as ...
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  • disco’s musical foundation, and both genres were associated with the ... and inspiration, primarily because the two genres share the goal of getting ...
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  • The primary genres of shakuhachi music are: *honkyoku (traditional, solo) ... The sound of the shakuhachi is also featured in western genres of ...
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  • to the prevailing system of poetic genres, and many a time would fill an ode with mournful, humorous, or satiric contents. His images were often ...
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  • and western, pop, and gospel musical genres. Best known for his crossover ... the pop charts, making Ford a star in both genres. He subsequently hosted his ...
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  • an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period ... These new genres, just as the polychoral one probably was, were indeed ...
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  • was Tao Qian, who wrote in a number of genres but never lost the clarity ... , reflecting a tendency to explore various genres of lyrical expression. He ...
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  • frequently covered by bands from many genres. The Rolling Stones even ... substantial, impacting a variety of music genres: blues, rhythm and blues ...
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  • of instruments, musical styles, and genres from outside the African ... their best to mimics songs and and musical genres from the occupier’s country ...
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  • horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, ... may be categorized into three broad sub-genres, dealing with the horror ...
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  • composer for commemorative events as well as all genres of English sacred and secular vocal music, John Blow's main contribution to English society ...
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  • Robert Mapplethorpe, still leaned heavily on such genres, although seeing them with fresh eyes. Others experimented with a snapshot aesthetic approach. ...
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  • ==Conventions and genres== Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life. There are exceptions, such as Lynn Johnston ...
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  • a sizeable handful of his works in various genres are considered eighteenth ... There are quite a few interpolations of different literary genres ...
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  • is also used in a range of other genres including New Age and some ... part of the electric guitar tone in many genres. Typical effects include ...
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  • Modern genres such as horror and thriller films depicting major catastrophes, graphic violence, and extreme conflicts could be said to induce ...
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  • poet who mastered a wide range of genres, only his odes have survived into the present-day. Although Pindar was influenced by earlier lyric poets ...
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  • India Company and doubled as a writer in various genres. In 1802 he published his first and only tragedy, John Woodvil, a magnificent failure. His ...
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  • dramatic musical forms in both sacred and secular genres. ==Biography== Carissimi's exact birth date is not known, but it was probably in ...
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  • Future" of communism. Their genres varied from acutely political, "anti-Soviet" ones, perfectly fitting under the infamous Article ...
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  • Out of heavy metal, various sub-genres later evolved, many of which ... symphonic styles. However, heavy metal sub-genres have their own stylistic ...
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  • ===Genres=== Baroque composers wrote in many different musical genres. Opera, invented ...
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  • Die Spinnen (Spiders), combining popular genres with Expressionist techniques ... the next 21 years, working in a variety of genres at every major studio in ...
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  • plays for several companies and in several genres, most notably city comedy ... Middleton wrote in many genres, including tragedy, history, and city ...
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  • reggae, ragtime, rap, blues and jazz genres just with the use of a unique off-beat rhythm. These contradictions in the rhythmic meter serve ...
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  • works, and be applied to most instrumental genres, regarded alongside the fugue ... more specifically applied to chamber music genres with either a solo instrument ...
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  • Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theater, and, as a modernist contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries ...
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  • fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres.N.E. Lilly, [http://www.greententacles ... ===Related genres and subgenres=== Science fiction genre ...
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  • to revive a variety of classically-inspired genres, including the epigram, elegy, satire and pastoral. Due to this adherence to classical form ...
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  • The writings of the Apostolic Fathers are in a number of genres, some being letters, sermons, apocalyptic prophecy, a biography of a martyr, ...
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  • heard as backing bands on records of other genres, from blues greats Ma Rainey ... Festival features jazz and many other genres by local, national, and internationally ...
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  • literary production spanned the whole range of genres. His trilogy Christ and Antichrist represented a renewed interest in the historical novel in Russia ...
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  • nearly every imaginable subject. Important genres of Sanskrit literature include ... main Samhita and a number of circum-vedic genres, including Brahmanas, Aranyakas ...
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  • As the field of modern dance has developed and other dance genres have become more defined, the term, modern dance, has become almost obsolete ...
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  • ===Genres=== Electronic music, especially in the late 1990s fractured into many ...
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  • similarities in dress, cuisine, musical genres and wealth. Many of the visual ... Fuji, and Afrobeat are all popular musical genres. Traditionally, the Djembe ...
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  • very creative in poetry and autobiographic genres and made the feminine voice ... and contemporary literature, various genres as poetry, autobiographies ...
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  • craftsmen began to dominate commercial genres (collector plates, figurines ... =====Contemporary sculpture genres===== Some modern sculptural forms ...
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  • 'serious' and 'popular' genres, the first to introduce American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American ...
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  • the line is difficult to draw between genres. See rock opera. ... similar to country, bluegrass, and other genres in style. ...
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  • revival, a forerunner of the Romantic genres. Gothic revival architecture ... film, one of the most popular of all genres seen in films. While few ...
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  • voice found expression in a wide variety of genres, from country standards to ballads, blues, cowboy songs, Hawaiian music, and gospel. ...
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  • modes can be generally categorized into genres according to criteria such ... These genres can be further categorized into styles, or stylistic ...
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  • ===Genres=== In this era, music was both sacred and secular, although ... and sometimes new music. All of these genres, save one ,were based upon ...
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  • compositions, eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems ... may also be reflected in his choice of genres: he favored the classical ...
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  • shown in several sections across cinematic genres. Around twenty films compete ... for best film, divided by categories and genres. Disney's Cinderella ...
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  • Beethoven composed in a great variety of genres, including symphonies, concerti, piano sonatas, string quartets and other chamber music, masses ...
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  • of folk arts, craft, folk music, and other genres of traditional folklife. ... as continue to collect previously lost genres of folklore. ...
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  • and jazz styles during the period the two genres overlapped. Jazz largely ... the historical aspects of popular genres from the late nineteenth ...
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  • from more than 45 subsidiaries in varying genres. It is most famous for its ... owned labels released recordings in other genres, including Workshop Jazz ...
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  • of the importance of all music genres. ==Biography== [[Image:Alfred Schnittke April 6 1989 Moscow.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Alfred Schnittke April ...
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  • Fauvists were no exception. Whereas earlier genres of art had portrayed ordinary people in day-to-day activities the Fauvists sought out colorful locales. ...
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  • Chinese poetry: an anthology of major modes and genres. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822319519 ISBN 9780822319511 ISBN 0822319462 ISBN 9780822319467 ...
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  • protest against the Soviet way of life. Their genres varied from acutely political, "anti-Soviet" ones, perfectly fitting under the infamous ...
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  • Some forms of poetry are specific to particular cultures and genres ... Context can be critical to poetics and to the development of poetic ...
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  • that bands from other musical genres (such as heavy metal) were ... influenced labels to look for different genres to promote rather than genres ...
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  • group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music and orchestral music. Critic ...
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  • applied to individual works and to literary genres." ... not only devices and their functions but genres as well. ...
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  • the breadth of his skill in different genres and literary forms. ... courtly love, treachery, and avarice. The genres also vary, and include romance ...
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  • to the point that it overshadowed other genres and almost defined what mainland ... Chinese traditional music refers to the genres that developed prior ...
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  • taught the doctrine of "Hierarchy of genres" (or "Hierarchy of Subject Matter"), which held that a painting's artistic ...
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  • an excellent overview of the various literary genres that have been proposed for the text and the relative merits (and demerits) of assigning it ...
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  • through his profound knowledge of mixing several genres and styles into smooth performances which were peppered with fiery and impassioned improvisation ...
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  • in the world of opera and across multiple musical genres. Known for his televised concerts, and as one of the Three Tenors, Pavarotti was also noted ...
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  • singing—their own material by fans of genres where such a practice is ... easier to learn and to perform than other genres. The musicians tend to perform ...
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  • *Les trois genres (27 April 1824, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris) *Le concert à la cour, ou La débutante (3 June 1824, Opéra Comique, Paris) ...
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  • there exist solo vocal and instrumental genres with free, improvisational ... == Genres == As there are many definitions for music there are many ...
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  • Rimbaud got their first poetic education in Latin. Genres like epic poetry, pastoral verse, and the endless use of characters and themes from Greek mythology ...
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  • accordion, which is used for many musical genres. Another type of accordion ... ==Use in various music genres== Accordion music genres The accordion ...
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  • also have ancient roots; the Lao folk genres lam saravane and lam siphandone ... and others adapted from courtly performance genres. Many different ...
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  • ==Genres of Country music== category that embraces several different genres of music: Nashville sound ...
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  • Javanese music, was the creation of specific genres of gendhing to accompany bedhaya and serimpi, known as gendhing kemanak and gendhing bedhaya-serimpi ...
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  • a written literary tradition. Its themes, genres, and styles issued largely ... to today. It is composed of three basic genres: epic, folk poetry, and folklore. ...
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  • frequently blurring the lines between genres and sources. For example, "I'm So Glad" was derived from a 1927 song by Art Sizemore ...
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  • on musicians working in all types of musical genres. ==Early life== Mahalia Jackson grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the Carrollton ...
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  • capable of producing masterpieces in a variety of genres, including novels such as Go Tell It On The Mountain, essays such as The Fire Next Time, and ...
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  • parents, and he used this heritage to produce many genres of music as well as a book which greatly influenced the later field of electronic music. ...
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  • Bede was an active writer in a variety of genres, including science, music, poetry, and theology. He is also one of the earliest writers of ...
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