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  • Latin word buculus (young bull) via the French word, bugleret. The first ... bugle, although it was derived from the French cornet de poste (post horn). ...
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  • his governess taught him Russian, German, French, and geography, he also received ... descending whole-tone-scale in the famous overture. This is associated with ...
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  • where he started work on a setting of a French libretto by Jean-François ... commissioned him to write a symphony, an overture, and a composition for chorus ...
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  • wars" of the ‘60s were between the French and British dancing teachers ... In the 1990s, the French group called the Gypsy Kings of Spanish descent ...
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  • Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French ... Rome, a musical award established by the French government to sponsor promising ...
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  • "oboe" is a corruption of the French word for oboe, hautbois, ... The Baroque oboe first appeared in French courts under Jean-Baptiste ...
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  • any help from formal teachers. In 1898 he wrote an overture for the school orchestra which received positive reviews—"a dynamic talent"; and ...
    8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
  • heavy influence of Schumann and Brahms. French influence comes to the fore ... * Tragic Overture (1895) * Triumphant Overture (1896) * Violin concerto ...
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  • early works such as the String Octet, the Overture to A Midsummer Night's ... power of his genius. The Octet and his Overture to A Midsummer Night's ...
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  • (January 29, 1782 – May 13, 1871) was a French composer who became an important ... and piquant of melody—characteristically French. Le maçon (1825) was his ...
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  • based on the Danish saga of Palnatoke. (A French edition of his book, written ... against tyranny with the history of the French revolution. ...
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  • (William Tell (opera))—the end of the overture is popularly known for being ... Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French, and welcomed ...
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  • Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813 – March 29 1888) was a ... Alkan completed a full translation into French of both the Old Testament ...
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  • Although Telemann absorbed the French and Italian styles as well as ... . Here he acquainted himself with the French style of Lully and Campra ...
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  • poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel ... Count Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium to a wealthy ...
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  • Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French ... [[Image:Overture.jpg|250px|thumb|300px|The Overture to [[Tannhäuser ...
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  • in at least 70,000 total casualties. The French Grande Armée under Emperor ... The French Grande Armée had begun its invasion of Russia in June ...
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  • German word for timpani is pauken, and the French is timbales. In the Sachs ... B flat above it on the same drum in the Overture to Candide. ...
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  • Gershwin was very much influenced by French composers of the early ... deter Gershwin from continuing to explore French styles. The title of An American ...
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  • ordre, or, when it had a prelude in the form of a French opera-overture, an overture. On the other hand, the features of the sonata da chiesa and sonata ...
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