Search results for "Music, Popular" - New World Encyclopedia
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- breaking innovations in African American music that would influence the ... of virtuoso musicians. Waters influence on popular music became unmistakable ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- variety characteristic of earlier soul music; technically demanding, melodic ... The most prominent difference between funk and the soul music from ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- genre, Wills merged traditional country music with sophisticated jazz-influenced ... own fiddle playing and singing, Wills' music gained a strong following ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- and amateur musician. Carl first discovered music by experimenting with the ... nearby Odense. He later studied violin and music theory at the Copenhagen ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- its strings. The instruments became very popular as household ornaments during ... The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular ... arias, duets, cantatas, sérénades, church music and big oratorios, background ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... considering the latter to denigrate the music as unsophisticated and also ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically ... to the New World. It grew especially popular as Americans moved West ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- artist, has had a major impact on the music business. A Grammy Award ... Beginning his career as a gospel music artist and preacher, after ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative ... or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. Henderson’s music marks the transition from New Orleans jazz, with ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... religious beliefs. His work remains more popular and influential today than ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... to achieve a stronger connection with the music. Although such usages are ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- , Dialogue on Light and Color”), a popular work on Newtonian optics ... was a cosmopolitan and eclectic writer, popular in many European courts ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- in the United States made him very popular, especially in the 1940s ... the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- the United States, for both classical and popular music, renowned for its ... Recital Hall (Zankel Hall), and the Chamber Music Hall (Weill Recital Hall). ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- - July 16, 2012) was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording ... Wells single-handedly changed the face of country music and controversially ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 23:17, 3 March 2023
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... Old-time music has its foundations in the family which helps to generate ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
