Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • works 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 ...
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  • albeit notorious figures in American folk music. After spending time in ... single greatest repository of American folk music he ever encountered in ...
    14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
  • 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... Delta by various blues collectors and folk music promoters in the early ...
    12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
  • The shamisen is used in several genres of music, including nagauta, or long ... Although in the early days of Kabuki the music ensemble was virtually identical ...
    9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
  • regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... harmony, quite unlike the purer forms of folk music Glinka would have known ...
    12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
  • sword dance practiced in Korea. Korean folk dancers perform Geom-mu with ... Surviving as a folk dance and cultural asset, Geom-mu changed considerably ...
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  • In the 1960s bluegrass reached northern audiences through the folk ... is not—and never was—purely folk music under a strict definition ...
    15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
  • been 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
  • performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his own. As Frederick ...
    9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
  • 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
  • particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, one ... " he nonetheless utilized Russian folk music as source material and ...
    14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
  • bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... or fans and reportedly disliked the folk scene of the 1960s. James ...
    11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
  • 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
  • forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... popular as parlor instruments for classical music, while German concertinas ...
    15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
  • Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music ... ===Folk music influences=== Traditional accounts of Enescu’s musical ...
    17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
  • Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk musics of many countries, including England, Scotland and Ireland ...
    26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
  • Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997) was a country and folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. His most famous compositions ...
    9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
  • Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... drawing inspiration from Norwegian folk music. Early works include a ...
    11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
  • The usage of the term is not unique to music but has application in medicine ... and logs were the next steps in the evolution of music. ...
    13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
  • musical ballads are in the repertory of American folk music. ... *[http://www.contemplator.com/ Folk Music, Child Ballads, Popular ...
    9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023

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