Search results for "Tonic (music)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... *the use of non-tonal chords as tonic "keys"/"scales ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... pitched strings tuned to a fourth below the tonic as a drone. The Estonian ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- In music, a fugue [fjuːg] ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal ... of its subject by one of the voices in the tonic key. After the subject, a ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent ... parts. However, none of his own writings on music mention the drum (nor the ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Carnatic music, also known as karṇāṭaka sangītam is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- while retaining the traditional anchor of a tonic or foundational tone. His ... the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ... the middle and higher classes. Flamenco music also slipped in and out of ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- of the greatest figures in the history of music. He was the preeminent figure ... faith and its effect on his life and music. Privately, Beethoven often ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous output of more ... clergy in his native Austria. Unlike the music of J.S. Bach and the composers ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... being more specifically applied to chamber music genres with either a solo ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... drone it is pitched two octaves below the tonic of the chanter, and further ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
