Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
