Search results for "European classical music" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- an Argentinian master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific ... Argentine folk elements with Western classical conventions. In so doing ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- in present-day Bratislava, Slovakia. His music reflects the transition from ... As the bridge between the classical and romantic eras, Hummel showed ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- December 3, 1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- his music could be very close to European classical music—a genre he practiced ... produced some of the most wonderful guitar music ever played, including “Guitar ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- to introduce American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American ... to Europe, realizing that a European classical music training would be ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- twentieth century American composer of classical music who was best known ... physical nurturing components that makes my music sound as it does, is that ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- November 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
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written to be performed ... The quartet became popular in the beginning of the Classical period ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of the renowned ... also a leading promoter of contemporary classical music such as that of Béla ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... akin to today's automobile horn). European predecessors and relatives ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Algarotti's writings include several studies on classical themes ... lively intelligence made an impression in European intellectual circles. Voltaire ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- Tharp's work encompasses choreography with classical music, jazz ... Times They Are a-Changin, which places the music of Bob Dylan in the context ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. Having trained ... its culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship. In 1784, with ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... Edward W. Guo, known as Feldmahler, an 18-year-old Canadian music ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- African-American syncopation and European classical music, though this description ... African-American syncopation and European classical music to create an American ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- 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
- used frequently by the most famous of the classical authors (Homer's The ... actually the precursor for the Northern European mermaids, half-women and ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... In the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, the term sonata ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- 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
- 1886 – October 13, 1979) was an English classical composer and violist best ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... In an era when African-American music was known largely through demeaning ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,774 words) - 06:08, 27 February 2023
- Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... Waller started his musical career at an early age. He studied classical ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- hierarchies which characterized European classical music between the seventeenth ... and early twentieth century in European classical music. It was described ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano, chamber music ... as "a piece for orchestra without music." Still, upon closer ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... similar to the importance of Latin in European culture. There are contemporary ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- grammar, logic, mathematics, astronomy, music, and geometry more than the ... of gymnasium schools that focused less on classical education and more on liberal ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- Various forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional ... most popular as parlor instruments for classical music, while German concertinas ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- Yet ironically, despite his advocacy of classical Latin as the language of ... most of his time studying, particularly classical Latin, and in particular ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... Daily] – daily magazine about European classical music, illustrated with ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- Although he resisted recording his music until near the end of his ... Portuguese refugees. When he started his music education playing the violin ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- be seen as an apotheosis of instrumental music. As European composers sought ... This can especially be the case in music composed in the twentieth ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- :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 ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the figures ... quot; may also derive from the Indo-European root men, from which the ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... The polka had become very popular with European immigrants to the ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... Moreover, another variant of rumba music and dance was popularized ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- later works were the foundation of the classical style, composing in the ... this time he was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- | Genre = Classical | Occupation = Pianist | Years_active ... | Label = Columbia, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Sony Classical ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- which developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of classical Latin ... Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual and cultural movement ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- era, a central figure in the history of European dance. Despite the fact ... of the Romantic ballerina, replacing the classical style. Marie's fragility ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... with the can-can, a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... Johann Buschmann, registered the first European patent for a free-reeded ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- the most important field collectors of folk music of the twentieth century ... movement. Lomax's research into folk music roots, systematized in a ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- gave birth to the Romantic Ballet, the classical form of ballet known throughout ... In 1672, the king gave the court's official music composer, Jean ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- he is one of the most recognized Czech classical music composers, and many ... Smetana was a child prodigy who grew up in a family that cultivated ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- stringed instrument used in Indian classical music. He became famous ... He composed for and played with classical musicians including violinist ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- regarded as the grandfathers of the jam band music style. for their dedication to the band's music. Some followed the band from ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- Of these many are rare or obsolete, and music written for them is usually ... In European classical music, clarinets are part of the standard orchestral ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- among his contemporaries, and his music has remained an inspiration ... section. He was a devoted fan of European classical music. Contemporaries ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- The Ossian cycle would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ... to bring about the romantic movement in European, and especially in German ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- it and its Greek root from the Proto-Indo-European root *tel, 'to uphold ... on his shoulders, but this is incorrect. Classical art shows Atlas holding ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical ... effect and in authentic performances of Baroque music. Timpanists will ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. Henderson’s music marks the transition from New Orleans jazz, with ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- ==Castrati in the European Classical tradition== court chapel at Munich by 1574, where the music director was Heinrich Schütz ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland ... but grew up in Vienna. He began his formal music training as a pianist, studying ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread ... in China and Greece) held to the idea that music, mathematics and science ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. ... painting, sculpture, architecture, music...this century appears to ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- tone of a viola, particularly in orchestral music, can have unintended consequences ... are occasionally employed both in European classical music (where the technique ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- Caribbean islands is rooted in simplistic European stereotypes, and that the ... The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- " According to the American Academy of Music, the horn is considered, ... through the sounds and meanings of music and sound. [[Image:Range frenchhorn ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- by works of high culture, including books, music, and paintings. ... into a dark-colored melancholy around European symbolism." Given his ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- the style referred to as Impressionist music, a term which he dismissed ... Beethoven, and Brahms to include non-European harmonies--notably Russian ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- of the early Romantic period. He revived classical approaches within the Romantic ... and Robert Schumann; instead, he employed classical structures such as symphonies ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Among the larger genres are European classical music, popular music or ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... there was an increasing interest in Western music, and attempts to adapt both ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- like a king.Hazrat Inayat Kahn, The Music of Life (Omega Publications ... incorporating the basic elements of music, colors, nature, as well ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- brother's band. Powell had learned classical piano from an early age ... harmonic series, beyond the confines of classical harmony to the extent possible ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- produced by striking metal bars. In blues music, the harmonica is often casually ... While the angle and bow harps held popularity elsewhere, European ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- In addition, Pan was later known for his music, which was capable of arousing ... The theonym pan is of Indo-European derivation, following from the ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... that ended the corps's existence. European rulers saw the advantage ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ... a fundamental relationship with all other music in the world…. A composer ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... As bagpipes became entrenched in European culture, their presence ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- 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 ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- – July 1, 1958) was a notable central European dance artist and theorist ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theater of late nineteenth–century ... was Petipa's The Magic Pills, to the music of Léon Minkus. Petipa& ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- of Hector and Andromache, and three other classical compositions. ... in a year, generally dealing with classical or allegorical subjects ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often ... His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- Johan Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of European classical music ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- was a prolific and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous output ... clergy in his native Austria. Unlike the music of J.S. Bach and the composers ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- that are utilized by most other Western European languages. Instead, Anglo ... Several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- one of the most important touchstones in European literature. It is probable ... admired for its masterfully allusive and classical verse in the prefaces to ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and even pop music. Her vocal style is characterized ... rhythm. She was able to go beyond ordinary music-making to relate to a greater ...29 KB (4,661 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- was that modern sciences had replaced the classical ontology of the substance ... * 1938: La formation de l'esprit scientifique European Schoolbooks ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- representation evolved, leading to the classical style that the world is ... the bulk of sculpture displayed in European museums come from only a ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ... and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music bands. They are played by ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- commonly of the hips, used to punctuate the music or accent a beat. Lifts or ... melodic lines and lyrical sections in the music, or modulated to express ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- It is used extensively in Western classical music as a standard member ... Other terms for the instrument among classical performers are string ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Nordau was an example of a fully assimilated and acculturated European ... "degenerate" (entartete) art and music: see degenerate art. ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- popularity in the early days of recorded music, as their sound could more ... Bass clef music for tuba is usually in concert pitch. However, traditional ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- In music, a fugue [fjuːg] ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal ... if not the greatest, composer of European classical music, and as a form which ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- | Genre = Classical | Occupation = Conductor ... fellow musicians, and much of the classical listening audience to have ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity following the ... medieval times, works that embodied the classical learning of the Greeks ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- represents a native art form. Gamelan music is built up in layers, with ... only obvious Indian influence in gamelan music is in the Javanese style ...37 KB (5,930 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- Metastasio's lyrics were set to music by virtually every major ... #039;s legacy may lie more in the realm of music than in literature. Although ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- both in prose and adhere to the canons of classical comedy. Fonvizin's ... Enlightenment differed from its Western European counterpart in that it promoted ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ... the middle and higher classes. Flamenco music also slipped in and out of ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- and talk programming (instead of jazz or classical music). NPR attracted these ... have long been known for carrying European classical music, but the amount ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- The use of nonstandard tunings in European classical music is known as scordatura; ... important of all instruments in European classical music, for several reasons ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational ... His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- as acoustic and electric models, in both classical and contemporary forms ... The guitar's presence in today's popular music scene is ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because ... plots than with the caliber of the music. Topical satire is a feature ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- style," of "from Rome." European medieval vernacular tales ... late eighteenth-century Western Europe. In music, the romantic movement was ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- Sinan is considered the greatest architect of the classical period ... fortifications, he was also able to study European architecture and construction ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- a treaty of friendship in 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan ... musical notation to explore European classical music. Tongan styles of ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- Medina (Yathrib) and Mecca. At this time classical Arabic became the language ... outnumbering Ashkenazi Jews, or European Jews, but relatively few ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- the wishes of his family in order to pursue music. He studied music in Paris ... skillful employment of Romantic features in music, such as orchestral innovations ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
- a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: ... , dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- Suction type organs were mainly built in the United States, but European ... and composers were looking for, and the music of Beethoven and Berlioz ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... main contributions were made by European classical music and jazz (via progressive ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments ... being dated to 1521. The Royal Academy of Music in London, has an instrument ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- importance to later Islamic and European science. The first was the ... In the Almagest, one of the most influential books of classical antiquity ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- helped to elevate jazz from a popular music to a fully developed art form. between soloists and the orchestra set his music apart. Ellington was a consummate ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- The Mariinsky Ballet is a classical ballet company based at the Mariinsky ... The great institution of classical dance was founded by Anna of Russia ...19 KB (2,726 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
- blues, R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She is represented in the ... Her mother was half Cherokee, a quarter European, and a quarter African-American. ...23 KB (3,629 words) - 22:06, 21 December 2023
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- performed by the nobility in tandem with music, speech, verse, song, decor ... The classical tutu, a short skirt supported by layers of crinoline ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- is one of the world's most renowned classical music composers, known ... which spurred complaints that his music was either too Russian or ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- especially in the early-adopting classical music and audiophile communities ... to any data file. From its origins as a music format, Compact Disc has ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- for the site was Hekademeia, which by classical times had evolved into ... which date is often cited as the end of Classical antiquity. According to ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- main skills would have been oral (poetry, music, comedy, and storytelling). ... In the nineteenth century, variety and music hall theaters became ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
- century, as well as a highly regarded music critic. An intellectual and ... truly Romantic composers of the central European music tradition. As with ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- is one of the most innovational European musicians of the twentieth ... Manouches, Reinhardt developed a taste for music early on under the influence ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The style started around ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer ... the West for his "other" life in music. As a boy in Vilnius he received ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. ... effects. Although much Greek and Roman classical poetry was written in forms ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- html Taxonomy of Musical Instruments (The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.)] Also ... Mexico and Panama) it is used in popular music (for example Gaucho, Forró ...52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
- Christianity was the dominant feature in shaping modern European and ... fashion, museum-caliber art, and European classical music. The word "cultured ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- court. Xu was greatly interested in the European technology, geography, astronomy ... was effective until the Manchu learned European iron-smelting technology ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Kyd was the first to revitalize the classical tragic form, with all its ... Latin and Greek, the curriculum included music, drama, physical education ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- pioneered the fusion of modern dance with classical ballet. ... chosen to replace him on the Kirov's European tour. In Paris, his performances ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- Equestrian sports involve many types of horse competition from classical ... school"), an advanced component of Classical dressage, is a highly refined ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 19:15, 13 February 2024
- declined to join Denmark in entering the European Community (now European ... language, their own sagas, their own dances, music and customs. ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- arts library, and top class dance and music training facilities. ... listed here in alphabetical order: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist ... piano prodigy, and he later studied at the Music and Drama Conservatory of ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- authority which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. ... in the national awakening of many Central European peoples lacking their own ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- The semantic development of post-classical Latin paganus in the sense ... :(i) The older sense of classical Latin pāgānus is "of the ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- ”] in The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford University ... American museums eventually joined European museums as leading centers ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- of Romantic realism Heroic art. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal ... the case of Germany, the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art, seen ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- is equivalent to NUTS-II regions in the European Union and is used by the ... rather low in comparison to other Eastern European capital cities. Petty crime ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- == Classical and pre-classical antiquity == The earliest known Greek ... been made from the preclassical to the classical age. He was born about ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- was himself a composer of lieder and choral music, of symphonic poems and other ... priesthood rather than pursue a career in music. He once wrote his mother ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- For Baroque era composers, music was not primarily an exercise in ... significant support for professional music-making in the German-speaking ...38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
- he was branded a loner and eccentric; classical music and his famous painter ... come with us, we are going to Italy to play music," I told myself, "fool ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- in not only England but many northern European countries. Later when the ... Palladian style, named after him, adhered to classical Roman principles ...30 KB (4,521 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- style, including Egyptian, Minoan, Classical Greek, and Byzantine inspirations ... * Music I (1895) * Love (1895) * Sculpture (1896) * Tragedy (1897) ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. Opera emerged ... trend of greying audiences for European classical music since the last decades ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- unrelated acts, including musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, ... The new working class, made up of many European immigrants, sought entertainment ...25 KB (3,760 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- ten, producing short pieces that imitated music he had played. He was influenced ... This highly intellectual and scientific approach to music brought ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- to the Americas, is not the same as the European varieties, and is the most ... brain, producing a physical relaxation of music tension. In addition, the ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- whose verse Franz Schubert had set to music in his song-cycles Die schöne ... where he left his early interest in music and poetry in favor of philosophy ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- freedom. The Romani language and Roma music were banned from public performance ... support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin." Nature (2003 ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value ... Cadiz," the first piece of European classical music Davis had recorded ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued ... Soon, he wrote surrealistic poetry and music.Mel Gussow, [http://www.nytimes ...32 KB (4,975 words) - 16:49, 21 November 2022
- Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke character ... As was the case with the European glyph, the Cham and Khmer glyph ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- into four main periods: the silent era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood ... ===The "New Hollywood" or Post-classical cinema=== ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- Empire, and played a major role in European and world politics. The ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- of India to the art world. The music, the temple architecture ... Tamil is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India. ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- New Jersey in the United States. Four European geographic and landscape ... , who greatly influenced Central European classical music. By the time of ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- received a thorough education in English, European, and classical literature ... forms, and his overall knowledge of classical and English literature ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- as diverse as art, science, invention, music, and writing. ... mean practically the same; "the classical Latin word polyhistor was ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- art for use by the court, and court music and dance, adapted from China ... have revived them. Traditional court music and dance (Nhã nhạc) was ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- historically informed performances of early music, but also because of its ... in Italian, the language used in writing music, whereas the instrument we ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... traditional forms of folk arts, craft, folk music, and other genres of traditional ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- Impressionism, he felt that traditional European painting had become too ... works, Gauguin paid little attention to classical perspective and boldly ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- such as the Inquisition (in southern European countries such as Italy ... nineteenth century, was a reaction to the classical architecture that was a ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- influenced by the attitudes of the era of European imperialism in the eighteenth ... sharp opposition arose between the rising European Christendom and Muslim cultures ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... and a founding member of what is now the European Union, having signed the ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- works. Lessing's study (1796) of the classical figure Amor with an inverted ... The symbolic use of color to denote the Classical Elements or Mahabhuta and ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor ... As music in the Christian Church in Europe evolved, the practice of ...40 KB (6,257 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist ... late, late Renaissance man … a European metaphysician with an instinct ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- stroke at the middle, and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. ... *In music theory, a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- , painting (Hans Gude, Adolph Tiedemand), music (Edvard Grieg), and even ... States. Two plebiscites to join the European Union failed by narrow margins. ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best ... were undeniably present in parts of the music. Appreciation of such melodies ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- #039; tends to refer specifically to European schools of swordsmanship ... Classical fencing is differentiated from competitive fencing as being ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- having a specialized meaning within classical Greek culture. Specifically ... * mythos (μῦθος)—Classical Greek, roughly "the oral speech ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- figures in what would become known as the classical movement in German literature ... to Joy) that would later famously be set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven in ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- technologies for transmitting voice- and music-grade audio over short and ... NBC Red Network offered entertainment and music programming; the NBC Blue ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to ... Pachelbel's music was influenced by south German composers such ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- which form a branch of the Indo-European languages. It can refer ... combinations of cultures that occurred in European history, culminating in ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- which they saw as reviving the classical Greek legacy. Relations ... On the other hand, as Turkey moves towards membership of the European ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Represented in the permanent collection are works of art from classical ... a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- United Kingdom and Ireland, and Eastern European nations such as Poland, ... European classical music is well-represented in Argentina. Buenos ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- to be important to his future film career; music, volumes of poetry, and illustrated ... Tarkovsky received a classical education in Moscow, studying music ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- became a state of some interest to the European powers. France exhibited ... Many Moroccan soldiers who served in the French army assisted European ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- His desire was to bring world peace through his music. ... fruit in one of twentieth-century European classical music's acknowledged ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded as one of ... were written for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- have been notable contributions from European authors. The history of ... Sangam literature refers to a body of classical Tamil literature created ...33 KB (4,960 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2023
- be a Zwinglian minister. He received a classical education at the Caroline ... Sculpture of the Greeks by the German Neo-Classical theorist J.J. Winkelmann ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- becoming a leading business center in the European Union. ... B.C.E. on the rest of the then known European Continent. ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical ... from serving the specific purposes of new music as well as the larger purposes ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- the first Olympics in 776 B.C.E. In the classical era, the Panhellenic Games ... quot; held throughout Europe in the classical era, including the Panhellenic ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- in 1993. It was admitted to the European Union in 2004. The largest ... of his rule, acceptance by the advanced European countries, and political ...34 KB (4,824 words) - 22:31, 15 May 2024
- block pattern that prevails in Central European cities. An electric power ... education schools in the city. The Zagreb Classical Gymnasium (Klasična gimnazija ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
- musical composition. It also introduced European and American audiences to ... had been passionately interested in music. However, his ambition to ...49 KB (6,850 words) - 17:32, 30 August 2023
- based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore and ... mixed with the nymphs and satyrs of classical tradition; while in others ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- and a sensitivity to the impact of Classical civilizations, as representing ... A revolutionary, Caravaggio changed the course of European art. "The ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- a unique and significant contribution to European art and literature. ... Blake found his first exposure to classical forms through the work ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6 Music and BBC 7. ... Broadcasting House was the home of the BBC Radio Theatre, where music ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- prefigured later developments in European classical music, including extreme ... playwright, and first became interested in music as a means of enhancing the ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- embodied. The group helped revolutionize European art during the first decade ... In its "classical period" (1898-1904) the art group organized ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- Traditional Thai sculpture, painting and classical dance drama was primarily ... into two periods: the promotion of classical Siamese traditions under ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- fine architecture, the arts in general and music specifically. It is well ... Wagner, and revived Munich’s fame as a city of music. ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He received music lessons from ... only jazz and gospel music, but European classical music as well. ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- Elizabeth lost England's last European colony but defeated Spain ... policy of destroying Hindu images, banning music, closing non-Muslim schools ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- Goethe's contributions to European literary life were immense ... German Romanticism into the foreground of European literature, Die Lieden Junges ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- religious themes and subjects with classical mythology to explore humankind ... a humanist education, studying Latin and classical literature. By fourteen ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- or ‘Scandinavia. After the joining the European Union, Finland has recently ... Denmark is considered part of the North European Plain, rather than the geologically ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- Peninsula in 1606, becoming the first European to do so. The Dutch charted ... estimated at about 350,000 at the time of European settlement, declined steeply ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- party, replete with dancing, laughter, and music. This racket aggravated Apsu ... A Comparative Study in Semitic and Indo-European Religion. London: University ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- The classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late nineteenth ... Despite the claims of many classical theorists and sociologists immediately ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- may be meaningless outside of Europe and European-influenced cultures. Likewise ... mainly to African-American literature but also to music. ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- day of the new year. On the date that European Christians celebrated the ... at the stroke of midnight with fireworks, music, and a live celebration from ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- Finland is a member state of the European Union and the United Nations ... Finland joined the European Union in 1995, where it is an advocate ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- of prose make use of rhythm and verbal music. Verse is normally more systematic ... over 2,000 years. They were written in Classical Chinese, the language spoken ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- end of the nineteenth century, people of European descent in Algeria (the ... which had been dominated by urban European settlers (the pied-noirs ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- stories of passion and fantasy—with the classical, Latin forms of epic poetry ... appeared at the critical moment when modern music, under Palestrinas impulse ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- literature, butterfly collecting, and music. For a short time, he studied ... over energies remain the foundations of classical statistical mechanics. ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- #039;s artistic preferences (for example, classical music, rock, traditional ... writer both in France and in neighboring European countries other than England. ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- used in the Qur'an is called classical Arabic and while modern ... of Arabic, along with works on prosody and music, and his pupil Sibawayh would ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- ) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of South Asia, a ... The scope of this article is the Classical Sanskrit language as laid ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- studying law, but instead focus on his music. Taking this suggestion to ... Linda had musical plans for Cole, to elevate him into the classical ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- the Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities), the League ... #039;s emphasis traditionally had been on classical knowledge, its curriculum ...35 KB (5,122 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- to “Dionysius Longinus” and most European countries receive translations ... his association with the “rules” of classical poets. Such contempt is ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 21:04, 3 November 2022
- first used in time of renewed interest in Classical Greek and Roman tradition ... (includes mathematics, astronomy, and music) were founded and given a ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- Grateful Dead. The band amplified not only music and Garcia’s eclectic musicianship ... out of high school. He was passionate about music and all the formats that ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
