Search results for "Music composition" - New World Encyclopedia
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- conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the ... the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- of the human voice. He felt that, through music, man would be able to create ... Porpora was born in Naples. He graduated from the music conservatory ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... he conducted a performance of his own composition 'Stabat Mater' ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... singer of the pope’s chapel, taught him composition. His first major ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- which cemented his desire to pursue composition as a career. Once back ... him from continuing. He also studied composition with Vito Frazzi at the ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ... not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and ... to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... of World War I in 1914. His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell is the first ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- was a Flemish composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous composer ... court; nonetheless, he certainly knew his music, since his earliest mass ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- Pictures). His passion for ancient Italian music led to an interest in musicology ... his personal artistic quest to create music that he hoped would speak ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... tribes. Adapted from Bordin's music, Kismet was produced on Broadway ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- iconic to fans of both country and pop music. Robbins scored numerous ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but it ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- harmonic and melodic language affected how music theory and composition were ... Saint-Saëns, who introduced him to the music of several contemporary composers ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... and Queen Sophie's (1557-1631) private music teacher at Elsinore, Denmark ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
