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- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or a missing beat where a stressed one would normally be expected. Syncopation ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- The cha-cha-cha (in Spanish cha-cha-chá) is a style of dance music. ... hits. In early days, this dance and its music were both known as "triple ...7 KB (1,162 words) - 21:33, 10 April 2025
- 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
- ear. A strong foundation in composing, music theory, and orchestration ... conductor provides the tempo (tactus) and a beat (ictus) that allow the members ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the ... Even though his music-making had been American-focused since his arrival ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- with special costumes, dance motions, and music. The dance has earned a reputation ... a certain type of meter, tempo, and beat. The basic nature of Korean ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- a regular, lightly swinging, four-beat style that came to replace ... insistent pounding of the bass drum on each beat, Jones often omitted bass ...6 KB (967 words) - 02:37, 30 January 2025
- quot; (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical ... and logs were the next steps in the evolution of music. ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 05:11, 3 November 2025
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages, thirds ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- by a powerful left hand playing a steady beat that was, at the same time ... City in 1908. Johnson studied classical music as a child and performed ...10 KB (1,596 words) - 02:59, 18 December 2024
- Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely ... developed as a distinctive kind of music at the beginning of the twentieth ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 11:45, 6 September 2022
- a hard-edged guitar sound. Known for his music's powerful, rumba-like ... world tour in 2005 to celebrate 50 years in music. He was inducted into the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- Teddy Wilson was a marvelous pianist whose music was filled with elegance ... Hines, thus bringing together the steady beat of stride and the light rhythmic ...6 KB (859 words) - 04:40, 27 February 2023
- The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ... it used rhythms derived from African folk music. The contradanza had arrived ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 05:59, 29 April 2025
- Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... the xylophone into Western classical music. Camille Saint-Saens first ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... composed using the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- adaptation (choice) was to allow for music to explore and express a ... The evolution toward the major-minor aspects of tonal music, of which ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 21:15, 13 September 2025
- As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ... refer to tactus (time/tempo) and ictus (beat/pulse) when addressing the ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... Moreover, another variant of rumba music and dance was popularized ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
