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

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  • most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of ... teacher who contributed greatly to the music culture in Renaissance Europe ...
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  • the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of ... His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. ...
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  • and keyboard compositions. Although it is said that Reger helped to push ... Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden ...
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  • A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...
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  • Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...
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  • A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...
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  • of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...
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  • In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... numbered beats are stressed instead, the rhythm is syncopated. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...
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  • In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... the key signature, the establishment of key is brought about via functional ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...
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  • opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as "the ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...
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  • ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia. He also ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...
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  • The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is ... or chromatic. The arrangement of the bars is generally from low (longer ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell is the first by a classical music ...
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  • , Bol'shoy Teatr, Large Theater) is a theater and opera company ... quot; theater (Малиый "Maly" is the Russian for "little"). ...
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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an ...
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  • in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions, and ... were deeply enamored with Couperin's music and paid tribute to him by ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...
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  • #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. ...
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  • performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...
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  • Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and ... The spelling "Dunstaple" is generally to be preferred, since ...
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  • sangen (literally "three strings") is a three-stringed musical instrument ... It is derived from a Chinese stringed instrument with a drum-like ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves ... In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ...
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  • a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his opera Prince Igor, and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • century Russian and Soviet composer who is best known as a polystylistic ... held mystic beliefs which influenced his music. In the 1960s he studied ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...
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  • and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking ... 1950s version. Another well known Tubb hit is "Waltz Across Texas" ...
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