Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of ... teacher who contributed greatly to the music culture in Renaissance Europe ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of ... His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- and keyboard compositions. Although it is said that Reger helped to push ... Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one ... going to Venice from 1609-1613 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... numbered beats are stressed instead, the rhythm is syncopated. ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- 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
- was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli ... in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly remembered ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... the key signature, the establishment of key is brought about via functional ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian ... until the late 1940s, when American country music stations began playing his ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as "the ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and ... to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... Carissimi's exact birth date is not known, but it was probably ...7 KB (995 words) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
