Search results for "Organ (music)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • it is said that Reger helped to push German music into the twentieth century ... of Johann Sebastian Bach. His organ music, though also influenced ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... was in Ferrara at the time. Gesualdo's music, which contained quick modifications ...
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  • 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ... familiar with the work of the famous French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé ...
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  • Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... make up most of the current Imperial Palace Music Department. By this time ...
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  • genres of English sacred and secular vocal music, John Blow's main contribution ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...
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  • cantatas, concertos, trio sonatas, and organ music to bring out his interest ... and thematic catalog, The sacred Choral Music of the Graun Brothers. ...
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  • vocal compositions during the Baroque music era. He was one of the most ... century, including opera, sacred vocal music and several varieties of ...
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  • collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...
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  • The melodeon is the forerunner of the more familiar pump organ reminiscent ... the bold tone of the wind pressured reed organ that was beginning to become ...
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  • accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...
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  • the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... early age. He studied classical piano and organ as a child, taught largely ...
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  • – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer ... child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study ...
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  • Russian composer, as well as an influential music teacher. His music linked ... Glazunov was born in St Petersburg. He studied music privately under ...
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  • of the human voice. He felt that, through music, man would be able to create ... * Owen, Barbara. 1994. Four Centuries of Italian Organ Music. Miami: ...
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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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  • performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost. He is ... going to Venice from 1609-1613 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He ...
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  • in his time at the school, playing the organ for the church. ... to include notation for mathematics and music. The first book in braille ...
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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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  • 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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