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  • with the gods") is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...
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  • The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially ... as well as an official characteristic of a hunt. The nineteenth century ...
    10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
  • The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...
    18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
  • Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... Rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz) arose in the 1940s ...
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  • over 26 hits and recorded in the styles of doo-wop, R&B, pop, blues ... and the Vandellas number 96 on their its of the 100 Greatest Artists of ...
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  • literally meaning "servants of Lord Hari") denotes a ... The founders of the Haridasa movement shared a common goal. They sought ...
    13 KB (1,811 words) - 23:13, 26 December 2022
  • Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... Monroe toured the South and recorded in the 1930s as one of the partners ...
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  • 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
  • Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... Spanish language and carries connotations of the spiciness common in Latin ...
    13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
  • famous for his research on the psychology of music and sound. He founded ... Bavaria (today’s Germany), the son of Eugen Stumpf, a local physician ...
    10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
  • |Genre = Country MusicPop Music | |Occupation = Singer ... Eddy Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country ...
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  • which was formerly used in classical music, utilizes 'sympathetic ... important respects, most notably in the use of gourd resonators. It is possible ...
    10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
  • was a Dutch conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of ... An aggressive interpreter rather than a literalist, Mengelberg was ...
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  • actress, and comedian. She was a member of the famed pioneer country act ... co-wrote Johnny's smash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Outside of music, ...
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  • Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely ... Developed in the shanty-towns of urban Rio De Janeiro samba became ...
    12 KB (1,864 words) - 11:45, 6 September 2022
  • opera movement which combined elements of the French opera comique and ... Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari, right down near the ...
    8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
  • it is described as "the collision of two bodies to produce a sound ... and logs were the next steps in the evolution of music. ...
    13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
  • Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... tendencies are readily apparent in a number of his best know works. He writes ...
    11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
  • A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from ... The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone family ...
    12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
  • won additional fans in the growing folk music market and the band brought ... and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. ...
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