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  • the treatise Ars musicae ("The art of music") (ca. 1300), an attempt ... is devoted to liturgical and composed music. The rest is devoted to secular ...
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  • In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...
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  • 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... but that were and that remain popular for their ease of singing ...
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  • and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras ... Hassler most likely studied music as a boy with his father, who was ...
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  • Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...
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  • have been attributed to him, though the music is lost, and attribution ... of the Marian antiphons, other sacred music in a more conservative manner ...
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  • New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces ... Music of the Spheres is cited in old scriptures, and the Greek philosopher ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • " the "Caruso of Mountain Music," and the "Backwoods ... and The Precious Jewel. He later formed a music publishing venture with Chicago ...
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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 ...
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  • instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...
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  • In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... A key may be major or minor. Some music is considered to be in a mode—such ...
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  • towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ... Still was very much of the attitude that "inspired" music ...
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  • 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian ... Snow was a popular star at the Opry, and had a long and successful ...
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  • #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... traditional and "new age" kantele music are also available. ...
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  • was a Flemish composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous composer ... court; nonetheless, he certainly knew his music, since his earliest mass ...
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  • – December 8, 1982) was one of the most popular American country and western ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...
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  • master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...
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  • best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late nineteenth and ... In his lifetime, however, Massenet was one of the most popular and ...
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  • performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... dividing 'serious' and 'popular' genres, the first ...
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  • ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... and Queen Sophie's (1557-1631) private music teacher at Elsinore, Denmark ...
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  • of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid ... boundaries. Elvis Presley's rockabilly music was popular on northern radio ...
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  • Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely viewed as Brazil's national musical style. The name samba probably ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...
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  • #039; most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ... 5, 1993. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999. ...
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  • and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... by art dealer Henry Kahnweiler, becoming popular so quickly that by 1910 ...
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  • particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...
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  • In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ... Yodeling shows how intrinsic not only communication, but music and ...
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  • Most of Taverner's music is vocal, and includes masses, Magnificats ... His best known mass is based on a popular song, "The Western ...
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  • on to write 21 nocturnes himself. These popular nocturne forms were expanded ... * Anderson, Keith. Notes for recording Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...
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  • a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... tribes. Adapted from Bordin's music, Kismet was produced on Broadway ...
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  • the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ... not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. ...
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  • and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking ... one of the most recognizable in country music, and his band, the Texas ...
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  • Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad. Incorporating multiple styles and variations ...
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  • 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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  • Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... Moreover, another variant of rumba music and dance was popularized ...
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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...
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  • The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ... it used rhythms derived from African folk music. The contradanza had arrived ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • ballads are in the repertory of American folk music. ===Murder ballads=== ... of simple folkloric authenticity, became popular with the rise of Romanticism ...
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  • Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... and culture and he expressed this in his music. His legacy as Norway's ...
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  • of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... deciding that the study and composition of music was his true passion. He ...
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  • classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...
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  • of his working life in France. Although his music is not well known today, ... operas and his compositions of sacred music. His influence extended into ...
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  • smash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Outside of music, she had several memorable ... Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter ...
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  • development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... Joseph Vogler), founder of three important music schools (in Mannheim, Stockholm ...
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  • century American composer of classical music who was best known for his ... physical nurturing components that makes my music sound as it does, is that ...
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  • African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...
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  • won them many fans. They soon became a popular touring, recording, and ... and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. ...
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  • 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 ...
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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 ...
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  • In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...
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  • 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and ... These verses were not only involving music but also astronomy, medicine ...
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  • his later career was largely devoted to gospel music. boogie-woogie tunes. He also became a popular television personality in ...
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  • forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... English concertinas were most popular as parlor instruments for ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...
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  • as well as oratorios, songs, and incidental music. He was especially renowned ... create opera comiques which were extremely popular theatrical entertainments ...
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  • |Genre = Country MusicPop Music | |Occupation = Singer ... Eddy Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country ...
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  • bassist best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony ... By establishing the Tanglewood Insitute of Music in 1940 he sought to encourage ...
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  • which was formerly used in classical music, utilizes 'sympathetic ... of an open major or minor chord in Western music theory. The specific tuning ...
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  • "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ... parts. However, none of his own writings on music mention the drum (nor the ...
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  • Each year an elaborate performance of ancient court music (with accompanying ... The Jongmyo Jerye-ak, the traditional court music of Joseon, is performed ...
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  • Russian composer, as well as an influential music teacher. His music linked ... Glazunov was born in St Petersburg. He studied music privately under ...
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  • Bandstand, and Shindig!, among other popular television shows. ... member Rosalind Ashford retired from the music business. However, several ...
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  • gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music in her generation, and sometimes ... and around the world. She appeared on the popular Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 ...
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  • twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...
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  • was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... He particularly promoted contemporary music. He also continued to teach ...
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  • Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages, thirds ...
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  • one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts. Both as a solo artist ... but more streamlined than the honky-tonk music of the late 1940s and early ...
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  • Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... where he led the festival performances of music for Queen Christina of Sweden ...
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  • of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... with the can-can, a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by ...
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  • Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... identified as a distinct genre of country music in the 1950s. Unlike country ...
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  • The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... composer, saw the golden age of Carnatic music in Kerala. The contribution ...
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  • which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...
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  • Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... composed using the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm ...
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  • A number of Respighi's most popular works draw from Biblical ... his personal artistic quest to create music that he hoped would speak ...
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  • the most important field collectors of folk music of the twentieth century ... movement. Lomax's research into folk music roots, systematized in a ...
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  • While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one ... to his love of war, however, Charles loved music, and in his employ, Busnois ...
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  • accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...
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  • in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has ... and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music. He enjoyed immense success ...
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  • Minnie Pearl was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, she ... with singer Roy Acuff. She also became a popular comedy act outside the Opry ...
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  • . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation ...
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  • of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...
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  • these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... Halliday in 1811. This bugle was highly popular and in wide use until c ...
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  • dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer ... and at eleven wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera, The ...
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  • Modernism, free verse became an ever-more-popular medium for a number of poets ... although it remains the single most popular verse-form in most languages ...
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  • widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ... widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ...
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  • with whom he shared a common interest in music. Forming bands with other ... Holly initially played fairly straightforward country music but incorporated ...
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  • The term bard (бард) refers to popular poets who put their verses ... which touched upon common life and were popular throughout all layers of ...
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  • Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...
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  • Although he resisted recording his music until near the end of his ... Portuguese refugees. When he started his music education playing the violin ...
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  • Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and inventiveness. He was able to produce music of original beauty with a ... Frank Sebastian's New Cotton Club, a popular Los Angeles jazz club. ...
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  • and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...
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  • Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...
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  • breaking innovations in African American music that would influence the ... of virtuoso musicians. Waters influence on popular music became unmistakable ...
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  • variety characteristic of earlier soul music; technically demanding, melodic ... The most prominent difference between funk and the soul music from ...
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  • genre, Wills merged traditional country music with sophisticated jazz-influenced ... own fiddle playing and singing, Wills' music gained a strong following ...
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  • and amateur musician. Carl first discovered music by experimenting with the ... nearby Odense. He later studied violin and music theory at the Copenhagen ...
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  • Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular ... arias, duets, cantatas, sérénades, church music and big oratorios, background ...
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  • its strings. The instruments became very popular as household ornaments during ... The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ...
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  • regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...
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  • Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... considering the latter to denigrate the music as unsophisticated and also ...
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  • are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... to the New World. It grew especially popular as Americans moved West ...
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  • artist, has had a major impact on the music business. A Grammy Award ... Beginning his career as a gospel music artist and preacher, after ...
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  • Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative ... or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ...
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  • role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. Henderson’s music marks the transition from New Orleans jazz, with ...
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  • bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... religious beliefs. His work remains more popular and influential today than ...
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  • Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... to achieve a stronger connection with the music. Although such usages are ...
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  • in the United States made him very popular, especially in the 1940s ... the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ...
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  • - July 16, 2012) was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording ... Wells single-handedly changed the face of country music and controversially ...
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  • the United States, for both classical and popular music, renowned for its ... Recital Hall (Zankel Hall), and the Chamber Music Hall (Weill Recital Hall). ...
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  • , Dialogue on Light and Color”), a popular work on Newtonian optics ... was a cosmopolitan and eclectic writer, popular in many European courts ...
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  • Canon Muzzillo. As he had shown talent for music, Jommelli was enrolled in ... of admission, his first known church music, a five-voice fugue a cappella ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... Bok, founder of the Curtis Institute of Music. As critical as she was to ...
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  • musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular recording artist on the ... Floor Elevators. A film devoted to his music—The Blues Accordin' ...
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  • However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ... sessions and live performances; recording music for advertising, film, television ...
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  • Michael Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was a popular ... generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a ...
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  • to make a major mark in the folk and rock music scenes. His unique, virtuoso ... Gary became interested in music while still a small boy. At the age ...
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  • on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music which were used throughout ... === Mathematics and Music === Boethius wrote four textbooks on mathematics ...
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  • monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema ... === Audio and music === *Electrobel Community—More than 10,000 electronic ...
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  • soulful sound of the shakuhachi made it popular in Western pop and jazz music. ... and play a wide repertoire of original Zen music, ensemble music with koto ...
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  • The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... The Opry acted as the performing heart of the country music industry ...
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  • the blues, southern gospel, and country music into a distinctively American ... Street. Although Memphis was famed for its music, surprisingly there was no ...
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  • Patsy Cline (Sept. 8, 1932—March 5, 1963) was a country music singer ... girl. As she grew older, she began to play popular nightclubs. To support her ...
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  • musician and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s ... Minnesota, as Ray Edward Cochran. He took music lessons in school but quit ...
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  • In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...
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  • with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville ... an inter-cultural bridge that brought his music to a wide audience and increased ...
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  • and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer ... funk and of politically conscious African-American music. ...
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  • tone of a viola, particularly in orchestral music, can have unintended consequences ... which allow a greater playing range. Modern music is played on these instruments ...
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  • operas, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music, and concertos. Dvořák ... melodies into his symphonic and chamber music. Among his most widely recognized ...
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  • – January 1, 1997) was a country and folk music singer-songwriter, performer ... He emerged in the late sixties among the renaissance in country music ...
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  • by introducing gospel forms into secular music, helped lay the foundation ... how to read Braille, as well as to write music and play various musical ...
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  • traditions. It has often been set to music, although the most famous ... The Hail Mary or Ave Maria in Latin has been set to music numerous ...
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  • Atlantic records during this golden age of popular music, Ertegun also wrote ... Much loved in the music world, Ertegün was honored with several memorial ...
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  • - October 4, 2022) was an American country music performer. One of the leading ... own life often provided the grist for her popular tunes. Her best-selling ...
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  • Franco-Flemish, or from the Dutch School of music. In the 1470s, Compère ... to have been a miniaturist, and his most popular and numerous works were ...
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  • Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Musical influences on disco include Motown, ...
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  • Although he started by composing religious music, his operas have secular ... Italy, into a family with a long history of music. Only five years old when ...
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  • in Babylonia. A rich tradition of cantorial music flourished in later centuries ... in 70 C.E., a consensus developed that all music and singing would be banned ...
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  • an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...
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  • A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... mainly from funk, salsa, and soul music, popular originally with gay and ...
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  • The Band was an influential rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 ... albums were its first two: the 1968 debut Music from Big Pink and 1969's ...
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  • over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...
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  • were the first to surround black R & B music with elaborate production ... often had lyrics more appropriate for pop music, and their combination of ...
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  • " According to the American Academy of Music, the horn is considered, ... through the sounds and meanings of music and sound. [[Image:Range frenchhorn ...
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  • as well as the creative arts, particularly music. Gandharvas also have symbolic ... other special events to create beautiful music for the gods while the Apsaras ...
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  • Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was a popular and ... against gospel singers performing secular music. Cooke's first pop single ...
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  • in history. Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre in the ... to traditional Italian folk songs and popular songs of the day. The most ...
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  • accessible forms of bedhaya have become popular, not as religious ritual ... centuries, which greatly changed Javanese music, was the creation of specific ...
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  • of the instrument, commonly used in early-music ensembles. Sackbuts were ... trombone was used continuously in church music and in some other settings ...
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  • conductors at the Tanglewood Institute of Music remained his passion until ... stochastic, or otherwise intellectualized music may be, it can always qualify ...
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  • Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association and the Academy ... playing guitar as a youth without learning to read music. ...
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  • the most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for popularizing ... in hymnals alongside traditional worship music in Jamaica. His posthumous ...
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  • through performances of acting, music, and sports, along with light ... printed mass-medium was probably European popular prints from about 1400. ...
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