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- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many regions, nations, and ethnic groups. The African continent comprises approximately ...35 KB (5,589 words) - 07:01, 4 February 2025
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 12:00, 2 June 2025
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently, rock music. The origins of ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 12:01, 2 June 2025
- In music history, the Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly church music, in Rome, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 17:14, 21 February 2026
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds with a relation to pitch, rhythm, and tonality. Another definition of ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 11:59, 2 June 2025
- Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad at about the start of the twentieth century and branched into separate ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in the English, Irish, and Scottish traditional music, and a notable blues influence ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- #REDIRECT Definition:Folk music ...35 bytes (4 words) - 17:35, 30 November 2024
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 20:34, 7 January 2025
- #REDIRECTAccent (music) ...27 bytes (3 words) - 21:01, 6 April 2025
- Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- #REDIRECT Definition:Rock music ...35 bytes (4 words) - 10:59, 1 January 2025
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes β whistle-like instruments which ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 16:42, 20 May 2026
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600, and encompassing works such as new pedagogy ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point established by pitch relationships creating a set, in a given musical piece ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:12, 3 March 2025
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ceremony. It includes a number of traditions, both ancient and modern ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 00:18, 12 March 2025
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) drawn from Christian worship ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 04:25, 24 May 2024
- Category:Image wanted Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
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- Category:Image wanted Afrobeat developed in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and blends elements of Yoruba music, jazz and funk rhythms with an instrumentation ...4 KB (552 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- #REDIRECTAccent (music) ...27 bytes (3 words) - 21:01, 6 April 2025
- #REDIRECT Definition:Rock music ...35 bytes (4 words) - 10:59, 1 January 2025
- #REDIRECT Definition:Folk music ...35 bytes (4 words) - 17:35, 30 November 2024
- #REDIRECTInternational Music Score Library Project ...54 bytes (6 words) - 16:54, 15 October 2025
- Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255 β ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean ...3 KB (494 words) - 03:25, 30 January 2025
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 23:44, 30 June 2025
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two pitches (reciting tones). Chants may range from a ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 β May 27, 1690) was an Italian organist and composer of operas, sonatas, and sacred and secular ...4 KB (564 words) - 14:08, 22 May 2024
- The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of wooden bars ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- Welcome to the [//www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ New World Encyclopedia], a project to promote true knowledge that leads to human happiness ...1 KB (162 words) - 15:02, 27 June 2021
- Hans Leo HaΓler (baptized October 26, 1564 β June 8, 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- Roy Henry ("King" Henry) (fl. around 1410) was an English composer, almost certainly a king of England, probably Henry V, but also ...5 KB (771 words) - 00:01, 15 May 2025
- Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Herskovits, Melville J. Melville Jean Herskovits (September ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 11:39, 29 April 2025
- Category:Image wanted Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 β after 1610) was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher ...4 KB (636 words) - 19:23, 16 April 2025
- The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of West Africa. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- category:image wanted Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Michael Praetorius (February 15, 1571 β February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most versatile ...3 KB (369 words) - 08:08, 31 May 2025
- William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 β December 3, 1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
