Search results for "Music, Popular" - New World Encyclopedia
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- text=The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical ...739 bytes (113 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- pitch, rhythm, and tonality. Another definition of music is "a natural and intuitive phenomenon operating in the spheres of time, pitch, and energy ...808 bytes (118 words) - 17:53, 13 November 2021
- {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Trumpet| image_name=Yamaha Trumpet YTR-8335LA crop.jpg| image_desc=Bflat trumpet| text=A trumpet ...638 bytes (96 words) - 19:51, 28 June 2023
- singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording career spanned more than four decades, its peak occurring between 1960 and 1964 ...769 bytes (110 words) - 23:51, 24 August 2023
- which are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically associated with American country and/or western traditions. Like many ...647 bytes (90 words) - 16:32, 27 April 2024
- – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental performer. Best known for his solo piano recordings, Winston came ...893 bytes (130 words) - 21:21, 29 October 2023
- top session musicians are well known within the music industry, and some have become publicly recognized. }} ...662 bytes (98 words) - 23:54, 18 May 2023
- blues, R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She is represented in the Grammy Hall of Fame by two of her recordings: "River Deep - Mountain ...884 bytes (125 words) - 22:05, 21 December 2023
- {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Didgeridoo| image_name=Didgeridoo Entier1.jpg| image_desc=A didgeridoo| text= The didgeridoo is a ...700 bytes (100 words) - 17:40, 27 December 2022
- {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Bugle (instrument)| image_name=Frenchbugler.JPG| image_desc=A French marine bugler| text=The bugle ...779 bytes (122 words) - 15:44, 22 June 2022
- – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental performer. Winston's musical style has been classified as new ...1 KB (181 words) - 21:15, 29 October 2023
- the treatise Ars musicae ("The art of music") (ca. 1300), an attempt ... is devoted to liturgical and composed music. The rest is devoted to secular ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... to the New World. It grew especially popular as Americans moved West ...1 KB (180 words) - 16:28, 27 April 2024
- {{Unification Aspects|Human beings use music to express emotion. Human ... tuba while standing or marching, it became popular in marching bands where ...1 KB (197 words) - 21:52, 24 February 2024
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 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
- European and American audiences to tales, music, and design motifs drawn from Russian folklore. The company created a worldwide sensation, completely ...1 KB (147 words) - 17:37, 30 August 2023
- 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
- Hollywood Walk of Fame. His longevity as a popular singer can be attributed ... challenges of a successful career in the music industry can threaten even ...2 KB (278 words) - 20:12, 12 September 2023
- 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
- {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Electric guitar| image_name=Keith Richards Hannover 2006.jpg| image_desc= Rolling Stones guitarist ...746 bytes (113 words) - 17:14, 14 November 2021
- 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
- public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, and environmental causes. ...905 bytes (131 words) - 16:00, 27 March 2024
- 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
- awards, along with the Grammy for music, the Oscar (Academy Award) for film, and the Tony for stage theatre. }} ...1,007 bytes (147 words) - 21:01, 29 April 2023
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but it ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for film, and a person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. ...896 bytes (142 words) - 19:06, 14 May 2023
- " 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
- American films. He also found success as a country music composer. In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most decorated United ...980 bytes (145 words) - 21:13, 21 December 2022
- skills, foods, clothing styles, music, language, social, sports, and technological innovation. }} ...1 KB (155 words) - 16:58, 13 November 2021
- 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
- {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=Tony Bennett| image_name=Tony Bennett (12462253053) (1).jpg| image_desc=Tony Bennett in the 1960s| ...997 bytes (146 words) - 20:19, 12 September 2023
- 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 ... A key may be major or minor. Some music is considered to be in a mode—such ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ... Still was very much of the attitude that "inspired" music ...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
- name. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music two weeks before his tenth ... an amazing stylistic resemblance to the music of Franz Schubert, whose ...6 KB (997 words) - 15:11, 21 May 2024
- 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
- |list7= Music (Classical Folk Popular Jazz) Film and TV (Hollywood) Literature (American Folklore Poetry Transcendentalism Harlem Renaissance ...8 KB (943 words) - 16:30, 23 November 2020
- – 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
- #: Dance to the rhythm of the music. # A specifically defined pattern ... #: The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater ...2 KB (235 words) - 21:28, 31 August 2023
- 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 ... boundaries. Elvis Presley's rockabilly music was popular on northern radio ...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
- 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
- #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
