Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- text=The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...611 bytes (96 words) - 00:17, 30 May 2023
- 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
- text=Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds with a relation to pitch, rhythm, and tonality. Another definition ...808 bytes (118 words) - 17:53, 13 November 2021
- text=The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions ...936 bytes (130 words) - 23:31, 3 May 2023
- was an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance ...696 bytes (103 words) - 21:15, 7 September 2023
- century, as well as a highly regarded music critic. An intellectual and an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism ...841 bytes (128 words) - 15:55, 16 June 2022
- chronic health problems. He spend many years as a music instructor for the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children. The music ensemble of ...1,012 bytes (167 words) - 23:35, 22 January 2023
- text=A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest ...638 bytes (96 words) - 19:51, 28 June 2023
- text=African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African ...865 bytes (126 words) - 21:50, 26 February 2023
- "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. The specially designed ... most prestigious, significant awards in the music industry worldwide, encouraging ...1 KB (215 words) - 19:46, 20 February 2023
- urge to express emotion though the use of music. While singing using the ... in a wide variety of musical genres, from music to jazz to pop music. Adding ...1,020 bytes (155 words) - 17:29, 28 June 2023
- virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers. He consolidated the emerging concerto form ...1,007 bytes (148 words) - 18:22, 28 January 2023
- to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque ...709 bytes (106 words) - 16:36, 14 November 2021
- 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
- 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
- text=A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. Session ...662 bytes (98 words) - 23:54, 18 May 2023
- as a leading musician of his era. Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest celebrities, his indirect association with political ...934 bytes (139 words) - 21:21, 31 January 2023
- The didgeridoo is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians (or aboriginal Australians) of northern Australia. Sometimes described as a ...700 bytes (100 words) - 17:40, 27 December 2022
- 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
- text=The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially a small natural horn with no valves. All pitch control is done by ...779 bytes (122 words) - 15:44, 22 June 2022
- musicien (“musician”). Equivalent to music, from Middle English musik ... # A composer, conductor, or a performer of music; more specifically ...966 bytes (114 words) - 16:43, 3 August 2023
- # A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music ... # A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. ...2 KB (337 words) - 18:56, 25 August 2023
- The selection of subject areas is meant as a general guideline, and ... * Art, Music, Literature, Sports and Leisure ...866 bytes (110 words) - 18:50, 28 June 2021
- # Ellipsis of country music. ===Usage notes=== usually refers to a sovereign state, that is, a nation with no administrative ...2 KB (231 words) - 20:29, 28 June 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
- are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... Like America itself, country/western dancing is a melting pot of many ...1 KB (180 words) - 16:28, 27 April 2024
- the creative artist and his/her audience is a central aspect of this principle. them and thus creates a new world which is necessarily, to a greater or ...4 KB (568 words) - 17:37, 20 December 2022
- {{Unification Aspects|Human beings use music to express emotion. Human ... with their giant bells facing forward is a stand-out feature in many ...1 KB (197 words) - 21:52, 24 February 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
- {{Unification Aspects|The César Award is the national film award ... Like the other awards in entertainment (for television, music, theatre ...1 KB (238 words) - 17:14, 23 August 2023
- 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
