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- the treatise Ars musicae ("The art of music") (ca. 1300), an attempt ... *Musica simplex (popular music; music of the layperson) ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- * Brackett, David. Interpreting Popular Music. Berkeley, California: ... 1999. Form and Music: Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- 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 ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- 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 ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- have been attributed to him, though the music is lost, and attribution ... of the Marian antiphons, other sacred music in a more conservative manner ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces ... Music of the Spheres is cited in old scriptures, and the Greek philosopher ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- is used in virtually all contemporary popular music. This rhythmic surprise ... * Middleton, Richard. Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- " the "Caruso of Mountain Music," and the "Backwoods ... and The Precious Jewel. He later formed a music publishing venture with Chicago ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... compositions—and most of the Western popular music of the twentieth century—pieces ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- 1930s Still worked as an arranger of popular music, writing for Willard ... The influence of jazz and popular music is highly evident in Still ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- 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 ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... traditional and "new age" kantele music are also available. ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- was a Flemish composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous composer ... court; nonetheless, he certainly knew his music, since his earliest mass ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- – 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 ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... dividing 'serious' and 'popular' genres, the first ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid ... for a time on the American charts of popular music. In the early 1980s, ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
- ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... and Queen Sophie's (1557-1631) private music teacher at Elsinore, Denmark ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 11:45, 6 September 2022
- Christian Music is a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused ... on romantic love and sexuality among popular music genres and instead advanced ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- #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. ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:52, 8 January 2024
- and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... as a result of contact with American popular music (ragtime culminated, ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 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
- also found its way from country into popular music, and retains a world ... the most famous examples of yodeling in popular music is "Hocus Pocus ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- Most of Taverner's music is vocal, and includes masses, Magnificats ... His best known mass is based on a popular song, "The Western ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- on to write 21 nocturnes himself. These popular nocturne forms were expanded ... * Anderson, Keith. Notes for recording Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1 ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- 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
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... music literature, from discographies of popular music to bibliographies of ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... tribes. Adapted from Bordin's music, Kismet was produced on Broadway ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ... not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad. Incorporating multiple styles and variations ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ... it used rhythms derived from African folk music. The contradanza had arrived ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- ballads are in the repertory of American folk music. ===Murder ballads=== ... of simple folkloric authenticity, became popular with the rise of Romanticism ...9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023
- when present. In jazz and other popular music ensembles, the bassist ... quot; is spoken. In more recent popular music culture, it is almost ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... of musical expression. Jazz and Western popular music continue to utilize the ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...6 KB (953 words) - 02:42, 5 November 2022
- smash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Outside of music, she had several memorable ... Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter ...8 KB (1,302 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... Joseph Vogler), founder of three important music schools (in Mannheim, Stockholm ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- 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. ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... On the other hand, a common device in popular music, the "truck ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and ... These verses were not only involving music but also astronomy, medicine ...9 KB (1,459 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- his later career was largely devoted to gospel music. boogie-woogie tunes. He also became a popular television personality in ...12 KB (1,774 words) - 06:08, 27 February 2023
- forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... English concertinas were most popular as parlor instruments for ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- 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
- Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- as well as oratorios, songs, and incidental music. He was especially renowned ... create opera comiques which were extremely popular theatrical entertainments ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- |Genre = Country MusicPop Music | |Occupation = Singer ... Eddy Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- which was formerly used in classical music, utilizes 'sympathetic ... * Sitar in popular music * Sitar in jazz * Surbahar ==Notes== ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ... parts. However, none of his own writings on music mention the drum (nor the ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Russian composer, as well as an influential music teacher. His music linked ... Glazunov was born in St Petersburg. He studied music privately under ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- Bandstand, and Shindig!, among other popular television shows. ... member Rosalind Ashford retired from the music business. However, several ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... He particularly promoted contemporary music. He also continued to teach ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... era, and probably a rich store of popular music of the late Middle Ages ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,785 words) - 19:09, 17 February 2022
- 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
- Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... composer, saw the golden age of Carnatic music in Kerala. The contribution ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... it had only been sparingly used in popular music and was associated with ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... composed using the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- A number of Respighi's most popular works draw from Biblical ... his personal artistic quest to create music that he hoped would speak ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- form, would come to dominate popular music in later decades. ... in the emergence of the blues as a popular music genre. "Without ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... their way into much of the American popular music of the early twentieth ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- The term bard (бард) refers to popular poets who put their verses ... which touched upon common life and were popular throughout all layers of ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- with whom he shared a common interest in music. Forming bands with other ... Holly initially played fairly straightforward country music but incorporated ...11 KB (1,803 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- practice, however. Although much popular music is published in notation ... lyrics below. It is commonly used in popular music to capture the essential ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 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
- to play, was even used in some popular music. Many people believe ... sounds were incorporated into popular music by bands such as Tangerine ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- although that movement is not a minuet. Popular music charts use terms such ... amongst many others. In jazz and popular music charts, terms like "fast ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- 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. ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 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
- 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
- breaking innovations in African American music that would influence the ... virtuoso musicians. Waters influence on popular music became unmistakable following ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- had served to solidify the harmony in popular music and was overlooked as ... * Starr, Larry and Christopher Alan Waterman. American Popular Music: ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- genre, Wills merged traditional country music with sophisticated jazz-influenced ... own fiddle playing and singing, Wills' music gained a strong following ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- and amateur musician. Carl first discovered music by experimenting with the ... nearby Odense. He later studied violin and music theory at the Copenhagen ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular ... arias, duets, cantatas, sérénades, church music and big oratorios, background ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- its strings. The instruments became very popular as household ornaments during ... The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... considering the latter to denigrate the music as unsophisticated and also ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... in the American South, featuring popular music played by fiddlers. Although ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- artist, has had a major impact on the music business. A Grammy Award ... Beginning his career as a gospel music artist and preacher, after ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative ... Reebee Garofalo. Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA, 3rd ed ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. ... but mostly these bands were performing popular music and a form of cross-over ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- , Dialogue on Light and Color”), a popular work on Newtonian optics ... was a cosmopolitan and eclectic writer, popular in many European courts ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- in the United States made him very popular, especially in the 1940s ... the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- - July 16, 2012) was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording ... Wells single-handedly changed the face of country music and controversially ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 23:17, 3 March 2023
- United States, for both classical and popular music, renowned for its beauty ... portraits and memorabilia. Several popular music legends have given memorable ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... Tin Pan Alley, gospel, and other popular music forms also entered the ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular recording artist on the ... Floor Elevators. A film devoted to his music—The Blues Accordin' ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ... Classical musicians and many jazz and popular music musicians are expected ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 16:53, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music which were used throughout ... === Mathematics and Music === Boethius wrote four textbooks on mathematics ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and ... === Audio and music === *Electrobel Community—More than 10,000 electronic ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... In contrast to the movement of popular music toward increasingly suggestive ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 20:33, 13 September 2021
- the blues, southern gospel, and country music into a distinctively American ... Street. Although Memphis was famed for its music, surprisingly there was no ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:58, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 16:47, 21 November 2022
- accompany. As suggested above, most popular music written today is predominantly ... ==Counterpoint in Popular Music== Irving Berlin wrote three well-known ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- and-roll musician and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s and early 60s. Although his promising career was cut short by his ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer ... funk and of politically conscious African-American music. ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- The viola is sometimes used in contemporary popular music, mostly ... string instruments in contemporary popular music. It is usually the flute ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- operas, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music, and concertos. Dvořák ... melodies into his symphonic and chamber music. Among his most widely recognized ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- – January 1, 1997) was a country and folk music singer-songwriter, performer ... He emerged in the late sixties among the renaissance in country music ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- records during this golden age of popular music, Ertegun also wrote songs ... Much loved in the music world, Ertegün was honored with several memorial ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- - 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 ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Musical influences on disco include Motown, ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 22:49, 28 August 2021
- 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 ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- mid-twentieth century revolutionized popular music and accelerated the development ... well as jazz with its many idioms,and popular music... Through paraphrase ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... nightclubs in Manhattan (playing the popular music of the day, ragtime, ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- albeit notorious figures in American folk music. After spending time in and ... The topics of Lead Belly's music were equally wide ranging, including ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- performance, or for rehearsing a cappella music. While Eastern Orthodox churches ... participates such as hymns and service music, choirs still sing the full ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- adapt both Western classical music and popular music. Chinese popular music ... whether it was moral if he preferred popular music to the classics. Mencius ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big ... In music written since 1930, only the soprano in B♭, alto in E♭ ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- made his symphonies and concertos very popular amongst his audiences. As ... Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 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
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... for lead sheets and fake books in jazz and other popular music. ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- being dated to 1521. The Royal Academy of Music in London, has an instrument ... ===Popular music=== Like almost all instruments of classical music ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- War I. Later, due to his great love of music, he became a lyricist. In ... In June 1934, he opened The Billy Rose Music Hall at 52nd and Broadway ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- traditional elements of folklore and popular music from East Tennessee with her. ... induction into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame ...20 KB (3,029 words) - 16:37, 29 January 2024
- entire duration of the Romantic period of music. He was part of the heyday ... to glorify the concept of "program music." He is best known for ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- The Band was an influential rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 ... the album stood in contrast to other popular music of the day, although ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- of sound. Modern distribution of music across the Internet through ... first entirely digitally recorded (DDD) popular music album was Ry Cooder& ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
- Her legacy is also important because she adapted popular melodies ... [[Image:Leal.jpg|thumb|Sheet Music for "To the Land of the Leal ...8 KB (1,337 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- , known as the "father of American music," was the preeminent ... young boy, Stephen evinced more interest in music than in other subjects. As ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- speech, or any form of content that is not music. In the U.S., the Library ... Most new popular titles put out by the audiobook publishers are available ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- .Willi Apel, (ed.), Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press ... For early classical music, the clarinets and/or flutes may be omitted ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- some of the most powerful Rhythm and Blues music of the twentieth century ... A pioneer in the development of soul music, Pickett's work between ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 14:47, 17 April 2023
- the Folk: the crafting of a rural popular music in south India." ... the Folk: the crafting of a rural popular music in south India." ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- 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
- films, and also played the lead in a popular television series. ... Angels, a name previously used by a popular Pacific Coast League team ...12 KB (1,776 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- became his trademark. Rhythmically, his music was primitive and relatively ... More than any other well known urban bluesman, Hooker's music ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- recording label of him performing his own music as well as works from the ... been referenced by composers of American popular music. ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- Faith in his later life and came to regard music, and particularly jazz, as ... Gillespie never forgot his exposure to music at the United Methodist and ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- the soul of punk rock created a form of music which more clearly portrayed ... remarried and encouraged an interest in music in both him and his brother ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Eclecticism is also known as a new popular music stream in the house scene. Dutch DJs like Don Diablo, Gregor Salto and Erick E are active in ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- in 1989, into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame. by fans as a staple in the realm of popular music, and in the music community ...16 KB (2,532 words) - 23:52, 24 August 2023
- European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe ... The polka had become very popular with European immigrants to the ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... elevated ragtime into preeminence as a popular music form at the turn of the ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- respected and influential American country music singers and guitarists. Although ... out of high school to pursue a career in music. During his time as a DJ ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 23:21, 3 May 2023
- Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American, big band performers ... Mack the Knife staying at the top of popular music charts for nine weeks. ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic ... of a motif, seemingly from American popular music, in the third movement ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- recognition and become one of his most popular creations. Thirty years ... between him and Dr. Seuss. Also popular was a 1981 collection of ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- were the first to surround black R & B music with elaborate production ... often had lyrics more appropriate for pop music, and their combination of ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- from other recipes. Teriyaki dishes became popular in the United States during ... Recipes from Japan's Most Popular Cooking Expert. HP Trade, 2006. ...6 KB (957 words) - 14:46, 30 April 2023
- 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
- synagogue and at the Gramercy School of Music and Dance. He made his solo ... Le bal masqué (The Masked Ball, 1954; music by French composer Francis ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- Lead singer John Fogerty retreated from music in the late 1980s but ... , apparently to capitalize on a wave of popular British bands with similar ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- " 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
- a Finnish composer of European classical music, and one of the most popular ... On his views about composing he once stated, "Music is for me ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- in his compositions, eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic ... Germany. His father, who gave him his first music lessons, was a double bassist ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently, rock music. The origins of ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- rock and roll, fusion, modern gospel music, and contemporary country ... electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing music with his January 1935 Decca ...20 KB (2,960 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- up hearing traditional Mexican mariachi music as well as flamenco guitar; ... Ritchie was already engaged in creating music of his own, even creating ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- Historically, flutes have often been used in the playing of sacred ... et. al., “The early development of music. Analysis of the Jiahu bone ...19 KB (2,947 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- whose unpretentious style proved highly popular with R&B fans. His lazy ... 1950s, he had established himself as a popular musician known for his ability ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 13:23, 1 August 2022
- first grand opera. The fusion of dramatic music, melodramatic plot and sumptuous ... him of being only interested in money, not music. Meyerbeer was, however, ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s ... that Lemon left a deep impression on his music. Jefferson was soon one of ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- among his contemporaries, and his music has remained an inspiration ... and intellectual, rather than just a popular entertainer. The music was ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- the most influential singers in postwar American popular music. ... capitalize on the crossover appeal of popular music by intentionally recording ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- piano concerto in the history of Western music has its antecedent in the ... century in Italy to describe vocal music with instrumental accompaniment; ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- While never achieving Louis Armstrong’s popular appeal, Hawkins acquired ... whatever their status in the world of music. In Europe, they were not ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Manouches, Reinhardt developed a taste for music early on under the influence ... Paris, spending carefree days immersed in music. Gypsies, frequently on the ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- 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
- Pictorialism was a popular movement in the early years of the twentieth ... Color photography is now a popular medium, and its validation was ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals ... * I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing (1966) ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- of the epicenters of Arab classical and popular music for hundreds of years ... ==Popular music== The popular African music refers to the music with ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- historians, however, believe that this popular account of warlike Caribs ... and street vendors. The islands are a popular destination for U.S. citizens ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- and operas. He was also a highly regarded music conductor. ... his father in his youth, writing his first music at the age of six. He continued ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- groundwork for multiple other genres of popular music was laid. In 1950, an ... by bebop, which was more remote from popular music and more suited for small ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:10, 28 September 2023
- performed in films and recorded jazz and popular works. ... the national fraternity for men in music, by the fraternity's ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- |Genre = Pop Music, Country Music |Occupation = ... country-pop singer, who was immensely popular during the 1950s and 60s ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- it is generally agrees that it became popular in America near the turn ... Rabbit's feet became popular in America starting in the early ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- subjects he showed avid interest in were music and sports. Bix began going ... to the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, the most popular and highest paid band of ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 18:01, 31 October 2023
- and one or two categories in the most popular music genres (i.e., pop, rock ... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/award-ceremony ...32 KB (4,552 words) - 19:47, 20 February 2023
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... flutes with them. The bagpipes then became popular in Europe, especially with ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- sent a special embassy to fetch the popular poet to Athens in a galley ... Anacreon was popular for a long time at Athens. His statue was seen ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- accessible forms of bedhaya have become popular, not as religious ritual ... centuries, which greatly changed Javanese music, was the creation of specific ...12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- War I. He cause a major controversy in the music world in 1935 when he revealed ... The disappointed Kreisler then left music to study medicine. He also ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- of the instrument, commonly used in early-music ensembles. Sackbuts were ... trombone was used continuously in church music and in some other settings ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 17:59, 2 May 2023
- reed organ that was beginning to become popular, he invented a system whereby ... eventually brought tonal and harmonious music to millions, was invented ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- forms, especially in the stream of popular music. A number of gurukuls ... * Manuel, Peter. Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in ...31 KB (4,635 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- vocalists in twentieth century popular music. Mastering poverty, a ... turbulent life, Armstrong had transcended music to become an iconic figure ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental ... acclaim, and allowed the world to enjoy his music, live performances were the ...27 KB (3,773 words) - 21:17, 29 October 2023
- Pop/Rock)" at the first annual American Music Awards. singing simultaneously too difficult. Her music was very popular with American ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 18:04, 14 May 2024
- Also a very popular film star, Crosby won an Academy Award as Best ... halls of fame for both radio and popular music. His overall music sales ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- were used in Shinto and Buddhist religious music, and during battle in feudal ... Taiko has become particularly popular in recent years as the central ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- conductors at the Tanglewood Institute of Music remained his passion until ... helped bridge the gap between classical and popular music. ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- world many works which expanded symphonic music into compositional forms ... faith." For Bruckner, like Bach, music served the purpose of praising ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- 15, 2008. was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years ... Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association and the Academy ... playing guitar as a youth without learning to read music. ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 07:53, 24 January 2023
- bells popular in the 1920s. From the mid-1930s onward, sousaphone ... , generally they can all play the same music and usually have parts written ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- be seen as an apotheosis of instrumental music. As European composers sought ... orchestras are sometimes used in popular music, and are also used extensively ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- letters. In addition to Bryusov, the most popular poets were Konstantin Balmont ... Baudelaire and Verlaine, while the subtle music, ominous allusions, arcane ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 15:49, 1 June 2023
- "classical" pieces were the popular music of their time, and have ... behind the immense commercial success of popular music. ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- the most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for popularizing ... in hymnals alongside traditional worship music in Jamaica. His posthumous ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- through performances of acting, music, and sports, along with light ... printed mass-medium was probably European popular prints from about 1400. ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- has been called "the queen of Tejano music".Rick Mitchell, [http://web ... Selena did well in school, but as she grew more popular, the travel ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- his death in 1950. He was one of the most popular entertainers of the twentieth ... roots of minstrelry shows and the classic popular songs of his era. ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- on the latest songs and dancing the most popular steps, such as The Slop ... Dick and the Santa Fe Riders, a country music program. He would later replace ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 12:01, 29 January 2024
- a new musical style called "dance band music." He and several classmates ... Miller's brand of swing shifted popular music away from the "hot ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- During this time Cooper also pursued music, writing various songs ... to Know in 1956, bringing the phrase into popular usage. Under his management ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- alternative rock and made grunge the most popular form of hard rock music ... Grunge music is generally characterized by "dirty" guitar ...30 KB (4,642 words) - 10:14, 25 February 2023
- record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half ... of the synthesizer as an integral part of popular music. ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- number of parables suggests that it was a popular teaching device for Jesus ... the Prodigal Son among the pigs (1496), a popular subject in the Northern ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- not be parted from her. She was trained in music, to sing and play the lute ... attributed to her, the fact that she was popular in her age as a portraitist ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
- period of time. Cram schools are most popular in Asian countries such ... Cram schools are most popular in Asian countries such as Japan, Korea ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- a hard-edged guitar sound. Known for his music's powerful, rumba-like ... world tour in 2005 to celebrate 50 years in music. He was inducted into the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- entertaining themselves. Roy became a popular local singer, mandolin player ... that he was going to pursue a living in music. With his father's blessing ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
- role in the racial integration of popular music as the first record label ... that their breakthrough into the white popular music market made them ambassadors ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
