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- His French name was Jean de Grouchy, but he is more commonly known by his ... Almost one-third of Grocheio's treatise is devoted to liturgical ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- 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
- Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... make up most of the current Imperial Palace Music Department. By this time ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- and 1970s and blends elements of Yoruba music, jazz and funk rhythms with ... 1960s. Kuti's experience with Highlife music in the Koola Lobitos Band ...4 KB (552 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most versatile ... where he was exposed to the latest Italian music, including the Venetian polychoral ...3 KB (369 words) - 17:08, 9 November 2022
- 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... some connection, probably as a director of music, with Santa Maria Formosa ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- 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
- Adrian Willaert at St. Mark's there. He is known to have been organist ... composition, for he wrote a great deal of music for ceremonial affairs, some ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435 – 1511) was a Flemish composer and music ... He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important ... and thematic catalog, The sacred Choral Music of the Graun Brothers. ...2 KB (357 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- The octave is the span or intervallic space between one tone and another ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was ... of his life are sketchy. Given that he is often referred to in documents ...5 KB (748 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- the flute which has benefitted the world of music richly. ... Quantz also wrote trio sonatas and vocal music resulting from his interests ...4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 1 August 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
- Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad ... asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... the Blues, Old Man." Another example is the riff from Charlie Parker ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- smallpox), Landini became devoted to music early in life, and mastered ... prior to 1370. Evidence in some of his music also points to this: He dedicated ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... was in Ferrara at the time. Gesualdo's music, which contained quick modifications ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin ... boogaloo (also spelled "bugalu") is distinguished from the funk ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of ... teacher who contributed greatly to the music culture in Renaissance Europe ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of ... His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- and keyboard compositions. Although it is said that Reger helped to push ... Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one ... going to Venice from 1609-1613 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... numbered beats are stressed instead, the rhythm is syncopated. ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli ... in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly remembered ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... the key signature, the establishment of key is brought about via functional ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian ... until the late 1940s, when American country music stations began playing his ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as "the ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and ... to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... Carissimi's exact birth date is not known, but it was probably ...7 KB (995 words) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia. He also ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 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
- The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is ... or chromatic. The arrangement of the bars is generally from low (longer ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth ... Italian composer; most composers of sacred music in Italy at that time were ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell is the first by a classical music ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- , Bol'shoy Teatr, Large Theater) is a theater and opera company ... quot; theater (Малиый "Maly" is the Russian for "little"). ...6 KB (876 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- 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
- Teddy Wilson was a marvelous pianist whose music was filled with elegance ... their mark on Wilson, though Wilson’s music is more simple and straightforward ...6 KB (859 words) - 04:40, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- 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
- August 13, 1912) was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, ... composers in the world, and the best of his music contains a vitality and charm ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- contrasts of mood in nocturnes, and he thus is best known for being the first ... Field is best remembered for his eighteen nocturnes, which are single ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions, and ... were deeply enamored with Couperin's music and paid tribute to him by ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- iconic to fans of both country and pop music. Robbins scored numerous ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- 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
- #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
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 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
- place in the anthologies of English church music, and is considered among ... Little is known about his early life, but there seems to be agreement ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and ... The spelling "Dunstaple" is generally to be preferred, since ...9 KB (1,459 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- sangen (literally "three strings") is a three-stringed musical instrument ... It is derived from a Chinese stringed instrument with a drum-like ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
- and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It is believed by many that the work ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves ... In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his opera Prince Igor, and ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- a major pop success for Georgia Gibbs. James is best known, however, for her ... widely varied in styles and genres of music. Her 1992 soul album, The ...20 KB (2,949 words) - 04:39, 22 March 2024
- century Russian and Soviet composer who is best known as a polystylistic ... held mystic beliefs which influenced his music. In the 1960s he studied ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking ... 1950s version. Another well known Tubb hit is "Waltz Across Texas" ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University ... them into his own compositions. He is known for writing concertos ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- 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
- with special costumes, dance motions, and music. The dance has earned a reputation ... :2. A sense of speed (not tempo, which is related to beat) ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- the seventeenth century without writing music in the new Baroque fashion ... 039;s reign (1553–1558), "bred up to music under Thomas Tallis." ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct ... boundaries. Elvis Presley's rockabilly music was popular on northern radio ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
- 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
- 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
- Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is an integer musical notation used ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- wrote for all economic levels so that his music could touch as many as possible ... was an innovative producer of vaudeville (he is generally credited with inventing ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- in present-day Bratislava, Slovakia. His music reflects the transition from ... Hummel, the expressiveness of his piano music showed the attributes of ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- 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
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Much of the greatness of Copland's art is due to the ways he ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- harmonic and melodic language affected how music theory and composition were ... Saint-Saëns, who introduced him to the music of several contemporary composers ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- Jongmyo is a Confucian shrine dedicated to the memorial services in ... National Treasure. The heart of Confucianism is to honor those in the subject ...6 KB (909 words) - 00:56, 4 August 2022
- Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- |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
- – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer ... child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music." Bluegrass takes its ... as one of the Monroe Brothers. Bluegrass is notable for the lightning-fast ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ... his skill in musical improvisation, and it is on the basis of only twelve ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- as well as oratorios, songs, and incidental music. He was especially renowned ... placed on all the stages of Germany, and is now regarded as one of the ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- The MJQ is the most perfect example of chamber music jazz. Composed ... ===Chamber music jazz: precedents=== If the MJQ remains as a unique ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of the renowned ... leading promoter of contemporary classical music such as that of Béla Bartók ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially ... Not only is the bugle a simple instrument, but as a signal device ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- 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
- R&B chart. Their second hit, "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave," became ... seller, a perennial dance favorite, and is one of the most played singles ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 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
- success of his operas into translating the music for others. Traetta's ... with the splendor of Versailles. Which is where the influence of the ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- for his research on the psychology of music and sound. He founded the ... young age. His main interest however, was music, and by the age of ten Stumpf ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... In American-style ballroom dancing, bolero is basically a slow version of ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- Britten once wrote: “It is cruel, you know, that music should be ... amateur musician. His birthday, November 22, is the feast-day of Saint Cecilia ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 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
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... from prior to the 1970s. Today, salsa is performed throughout Latin ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto ... Grieg is known as a "nationalist" composer and his "nationalist ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely ... festive Carnival parades. The samba style is a smooth, duple-metered flow ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 11:45, 6 September 2022
- 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
- and inventiveness. He was able to produce music of original beauty with a ... Spells.” The distinguished, chamber music style of the Goodman trio ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 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
- and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- John Taverner (around 1490 – October 18, 1545) is regarded as the ... It is often said that after leaving Oxford, Taverner worked as an ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the ... A similar instrument, the 'setar', is used to this day in Iran and ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- action), and "percussus" (which is a noun meaning "a beating ... and logs were the next steps in the evolution of music. ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that is ... soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- were largely spent writing essays rather than music. He had no more ... It was Richard Wagner's music that inspired Dallapiccola to start ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including ... an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- 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
- 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
- pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- Minnie Pearl was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, she ... southwest of Nashville. She graduated from what was then Nashville's ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- won additional fans in the growing folk music market and the band brought ... and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- rhythmic accompanist. His career is forever linked to that of legendary ... occasionally reminiscent of Italian folk music. More generally, his music ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- 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
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... been imposed upon the culture. The result is a distinctively Indian cultural ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- of Heinrich Isaac. This interest in early music would greatly influence his ... Webern's music was denounced as "cultural Bolshevism" ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- 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
- 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
- ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ... from the inner tube of a bamboo or reed, is made taut and glued over this ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing one's ... an alphabet. Another very notable benefit is that because they were dots ...8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 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
- is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical ... but the sound it produces is an octave higher. This has given rise ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:24, 26 December 2023
- While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one ... That he was not entirely a man of peace is indicated by a petition for ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... movement of the 1930s, notably in the folk music of Pete Seeger (1919-2014 ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost ... view towards dance, was that "dancing is an affirmation of life through ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- Patsy Cline (Sept. 8, 1932—March 5, 1963) was a country music singer ... Patsy dethroned Kitty Wells as the "Queen of Country Music" ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 16:47, 21 November 2022
- 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
- a few chords and had no formal training in music, but he possessed an exceptional ... a great deal of prose (his novel The Show is Over won him the Russian Booker ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:39, 22 November 2023
- known composer from Denmark. He is especially admired for his ... and amateur musician. Carl first discovered music by experimenting with the ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- 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
- A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting ... the thematic material. The quartet is a musical example of how the ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- band was intimately linked to Swing music’s dance tradition, serving ... defeating them. Most famous in history is a meeting with Goodman that ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 15:18, 10 December 2023
- Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key ... Taylor (Radano 1993, 108-109), have written music that is described as atonal ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- his role as a uniter of musicians and music fans through his profound ... 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
- on January 22, 1727. His most famous piece is the Messiah, an oratorio set ... and organ, and at nine he began to compose music. However, his father, an ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- The shakuhachi (尺八) is a Japanese end-blown flute, which is held ... (本曲, "original pieces") is a repertoire of the pieces ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- arias, duets, cantatas, sérénades, church music and big oratorios, background ... of Hamburg, and wrote largely church music there until his death in 1739. ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He ... was extremely antagonistic, developing into what could fairly be called a firm ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- pianist, violist and violinist. He is best known for his Roman trilogy ... Pictures). His passion for ancient Italian music led to an interest in musicology ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- of a tonal center or atonality. This music which turned away from the ... in theosophy, and both would influence his music and musical thought. In 1909 ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists ... variety characteristic of earlier soul music; technically demanding, melodic ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music which were used throughout ... works of the Greek philosophers, but there is no clear evidence for this ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- 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
- of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is the tune most associated with ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- A Pulitzer Prize is an award regarded as the highest national honor ... include the creation of awards in poetry, music and photography, and the ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- Bebop or bop is a style of jazz that evolved in the 1940s and is notable ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- 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
- 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
- Although he resisted recording his music until near the end of his ... #039;s creation. An American icon, Sousa is arguably the most well-known ...15 KB (2,115 words) - 07:04, 3 August 2022
- for "time," from Latin Tempus) is the speed or pace of a given ... The plural of tempo in Italian is tempi. Some writers employ this ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Little is known about Philodemus’ antecedents or social status, ... to Philodemus. These works deal with music, rhetoric, ethics, signs ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- 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
- and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s and ... Minnesota, as Ray Edward Cochran. He took music lessons in school but quit ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- - 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
- Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... the current-day province of Ravenna. Little is known about his early life ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- 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 aeolian harp (also æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument ... The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative ... or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music in her generation, and sometimes ... of a heart attack on January 27, 1972. She is remembered for her strong, ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval ... evidently gave him a thorough training in music. He studied with Rogier de ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 03:20, 25 February 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
- the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ... nature of his scores. Today much of his music sounds relatively tame in ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 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
- A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions ... forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- – 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
- 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
- Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer ... Tharp's work encompasses choreography with classical music, jazz ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... The Opry acted as the performing heart of the country music industry ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 20:33, 13 September 2021
- instruments (otherwise called reed pipes). What differentiates these instruments ... To produce a sound with an open flute, the player is required to blow ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body ... oratorios and masses, chorus or choir is usually understood to imply ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... Mississippi in the early 1920s, and wrote what is perhaps his earliest song ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician ... However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago that formed ... level of social awareness in Mayfield's music. The Impressions ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 15:38, 30 April 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
- A ballad is a story, usually portraying a dramatic or exciting episode ... of recording events. The retelling in song is communicated with a refrain ...9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023
- The dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument of two main varieties ... The word dulcimer is Graeco-Roman, meaning "sweet song," ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- County, often referred to simply as the Music Center, is one of the three ... The Music Center's current mission is to go beyond its role as ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, in New York ... Built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890, it is one of the ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... a profound understanding for the action one is performing. This fusion of ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- also studied composition and began to write music. counterpoint, thus becoming the only formal music teacher Schoenberg would have. ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- - October 4, 2022) was an American country music performer. One of the leading ... and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988. ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- Free verse (occasionally referred to as vers libre) is a term describing ... "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," predominantly ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- 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
- Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity ... . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano, chamber music ... To the general public, Ravel is probably best known for his orchestral ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- 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
- few. His attachment to his Jewish background is displayed both in his life ... in Paris, where his father lived as a music teacher. Charles-Valentin ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- later taught harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection ... he began to concentrate more seriously on music. Balakirev encouraged him ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- 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) - 06:12, 3 August 2022
- by introducing gospel forms into secular music, helped lay the foundation ... totally blind by the age of seven. The cause is generally believed to be undiagnosed ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 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
- 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... the church's firm stand against blues music and the sinful lifestyle ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- exemplar of Chicago blues style, which is typified by an electrified ... breaking innovations in African American music that would influence the ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- , also called Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three ... It was under his guidance that Carnatic music revolution started in southern ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina) is an American multiple Grammy ... Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 00:35, 8 December 2022
- He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental ... He later attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School or Internationale ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Digital audio is a technology that uses digital signals for sound ... of sound. Modern distribution of music across the Internet through ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
- James Vernon Taylor (March 12, 1948 - ) is an American singer-songwriter ... "Handy Man" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)." ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 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
- 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
- The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded ... open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... ear. A strong foundation in composing, music theory, and orchestration ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- of his famous father J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach is often overlooked as a composer ... 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
- In Jewish tradition, a cantor or hazzan is a musician trained in the ... In Christianity, a cantor or chanter (Gk. ψάλτης) is the chief ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- 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
- theologian, philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist. In philosophy, ... his family was of quite modest means, and it is likely that Mersenne received ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- 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
- and at eleven wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera, The ... Pennsylvania's Curtis Institute of Music. Fellow students at Curtis ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- Her legacy is also important because she adapted popular melodies ... Prince Charles Edward. "Carolina" is the female form of the name ...8 KB (1,337 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- which blended rhythm and blues and gospel music. His reflective sensitivity ... sing rock and roll, "the devil's music." His parents were well ...13 KB (2,075 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- Cuban jazz, a modern jazz equivalent of what jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton ... Faith in his later life and came to regard music, and particularly jazz, as ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- a crucial figure in the history of music. His work bridged the "old ... (concerted style); La Favola d'Orfeo is considered the earliest dramatically ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- He recorded more than 80 albums and is considered highly influential ... Blues” (1959). His album Mojo Hand (1960) is considered a classic. ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- the day after their birth, but there is no documentary evidence that ... faith and its effect on his life and music. Privately, Beethoven often ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- 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
- but he rejected both labels, performing what he called “folk piano.” ... [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/arts/music/george-winston-dead.html ...27 KB (3,773 words) - 21:17, 29 October 2023
- Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic ... He was also a champion of contemporary music and gave performances of ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- and operas. He was also a highly regarded music conductor. ... In the discourse with Abell as to what heaven may be, Strauss refers ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers ... The etymology of the word "concerto" is somewhat problematic ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- 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 Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer ... traditions. It has often been set to music, although the most famous ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... Like America itself, country/western dancing is a melting pot of many ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family ... The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- to do the same. His most popular composition is the Romanian Rhapsody #1 where ... Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- world many works which expanded symphonic music into compositional forms ... of his century whose entire musical output is determined by his religious ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is an alto string ... #039; sets it apart: its rich sonority is more full-bodied than the violin ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
