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  • revealed his interest in the unity of the musical sections of the staged drama ... Medici court, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer ...
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  • sacred music, chamber compositions, and keyboard pieces occupied important ... a reputation as a major figure in French musical circles and became known ...
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  • of madrigals to utilize the practice of musical "imitation" to ... expressing specific emotions through musical means. The practice of ...
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  • fashion, but his superbly constructed keyboard works marked the beginning ... from Mary's chapel includes a musical setting of a long psalm ...
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  • rhythmic section, such as the guitar or keyboard, that forms the basis or ... riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low ...
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  • A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions ... more than 20 keys for local sale. Three keyboard systems for German concertinas ...
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  • yet he created imaginative sonatas for keyboard, and made significant contributions ... was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ. From the age ...
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  • contribution to English society and the musical world was his profound maturity ... proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard skills, organ performances ...
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  • of them) with little relation to the musical context of their origin ... Although New Age musical structures can be understood in relation ...
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  • A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments ... a psaltery. A Latin manuscript work on musical instruments by Henri Arnault ...
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  • works for solo instrument such as keyboard or violin, and for groups ... by a solo instrument, most often a keyboard instrument, or by a solo ...
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  • in his orchestral, chamber, and keyboard compositions. Although it ... however, he was progressive in his musical works and bridged the periods ...
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  • and he ranks amongst the greatest of keyboard virtuosi. Anton Rubenstein ... in St. Petersburg would damage Russian musical traditions. In the tirades ...
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  • A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... instruments that are played with a musical keyboard by which each key generates ...
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  • Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is an integer musical notation used ... and by further extension most subsequent musical styles. ...
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  • earlier notational systems. Frescobaldi offered musical rewards in the intrinsic and extrinsic areas of performance and development. Thus, he created ...
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  • A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument ... entity. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification ...
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  • Waller started his musical career at an early age. He studied classical ... extent at the cost of eclipsing his great musical talent—something Fats ...
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  • were born. He displayed considerable musical talent at an early age; ... was opposed to George Frideric pursuing a musical career, preferring him to ...
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  • afforded him considerable latitude in his musical career and his autonomy ... ====Other keyboard works==== The rest of Buxtehude's keyboard ...
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  • one of Franz Liszt's assaults on the keyboard, he asked his neighbor, ... * Nikolaev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. John Field. NY: Musical Scope ...
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  • [[Image:Piano keyboard.JPG|thumb|right|350px|A grand piano]] ... For the arrangement of the keys on a piano keyboard, see Musical keyboard ...
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  • values which combined his prodigious musical talent and his growing personal ... player or performer at a pianoforte with a pedal keyboard. ...
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  • Musical theater stands as the meeting place where the literary movement ... to the audience. The first example of musical melodrama, Goethe and others ...
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  • Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... be obvious from listening. Authoritative musical information about a piece ...
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  • million units. He is also noted for his musical sophistication, experimentation ... but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocal ability. ...
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  • lyricism and introduced broader Western musical sensibilities into the South ... the age of 14, when he joined a traveling musical troupe headed by his elder ...
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  • of American jazz, Gershwin created a musical style that elevated the ... developed a greater affinity for the keyboard and soon took over the instrument ...
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  • secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all ... Although he introduced no new musical forms, he expanded and enriched ...
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  • concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument ... harpsichord concerto. The origins of the keyboard concerto are to be found ...
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  • The reed organ is a keyboard instrument that operates via bellows ... manuals and an independent pedal with its own keyboard. ...
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  • from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. Although Hummel died ... Weimar, he made the city into a European musical capital, inviting the best ...
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  • of music combined the Italian and German musical backgrounds of his parents ... #039;s boldness, inexorable feeling for musical geometry (which requires ...
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  • practice of expressing specific emotions through musical means. ... counterpoint developed. More elaborate musical ornamentation, as well as ...
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  • Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... reading ability, and having a trained musical ear. A strong foundation ...
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  • In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from ... in a cooperative relationship with other musical entities. Within a piece ...
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  • Welk, brought his own German and Russian musical heritage into the mix, and ... United States had to rely on much smaller musical ensembles to provide the ...
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  • type of marching or other movement with musical performance. Instrumentation ... evolved a rich and varied tradition of musical styles and marching traditions ...
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  • music work (in particular his 1968 musical composition Sinfonia for ... 1975 for eight vocalists and an optional keyboard part. The work is one of ...
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  • to the piano. One of the most talented musical child prodigies of all time ... on a bar situated in front of the keyboard, so that all the pianist ...
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  • goodshepherdinstitute.org/musical-heritage/volume/5/johann_contri ... young Pachelbel demonstrated exceptional musical and academic abilities. ...
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  • his showmanship and great skill with the keyboard. Today, he is generally ... and fostered the young Liszt's musical taste. He formed an early ...
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  • jazz piano as the supreme master of the keyboard, the pianist whose virtuosity ... brilliance, prodigious memory, and overall musical genius to create a library ...
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  • the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Musical influences on disco include ... Disco has its musical roots in late 1960s' northern soul music ...
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  • A musical genius, Mendelssohn sometimes suffered the scorn of his ... Felix and his older sister, Fanny, were musical child prodigies. Mendelssohn ...
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  • and both would influence his music and musical thought. In 1909-1910 he ... Scriabin held the rapt attention of the musical world in Russia while he ...
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  • * Yet others use a piano-style musical keyboard for the right-hand manual ... * Piano accordions use a musical keyboard similar to a piano, at right ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Bud Powell | Landscape = ... to the extent possible within the piano keyboard. Powell's lines form ...
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  • #039;s exposure had obscured his immense musical legacy. ... Haw, the show had effectively ruined his musical career by redefining him ...
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  • humans can recognize their sounds as musical. Moreover, as music is intuitive ... instruments that are played with a musical keyboard. Every key generates ...
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