Search results for "Music composition" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...
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  • of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...
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  • who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... In an era when African-American music was known largely through demeaning ...
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  • – January 1, 1997) was a country and folk music singer-songwriter, performer ... He emerged in the late sixties among the renaissance in country music ...
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  • world many works which expanded symphonic music into compositional forms ... faith." For Bruckner, like Bach, music served the purpose of praising ...
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  • operas, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music, and concertos. Dvořák ... melodies into his symphonic and chamber music. Among his most widely recognized ...
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  • Although he started by composing religious music, his operas have secular ... Italy, into a family with a long history of music. Only five years old when ...
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  • for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... of each section and movement of a composition, and receiving from each ...
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  • journalism, literature, and musical composition; Pulitzer fellowships ... include the creation of awards in poetry, music and photography, and the ...
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  • in the entertainment arts, for example, in music, theater and dance. ... Improvisation is an important aspect of music in general. Musical ...
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  • and/or instruments in a polychoral composition. In typical eighteenth ... performance, or for rehearsing a cappella music. While Eastern Orthodox churches ...
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  • in 1874, Verdi responded with the composition of his "Messa da ... homage. The composer had instructed that no music be played at his funeral; ...
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  • of a tonal center or atonality. This music which turned away from the ... not interest him, Scriabin failed his composition class and did not graduate ...
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  • (later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1) which showcased ... not sell in significant numbers, and his music was still regarded as too ...
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  • The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... The call and response is a form of music composition wherein a vocalist ...
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  • recording label of him performing his own music as well as works from the ... apparent. Further inspiration included the music of Mily Balakirev, Mussorgsky ...
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  • event that marked his entry into film music composition and directing. He assisted ... Ilaiyaraaja's arrival onto the scene of film music composition ...
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  • entire duration of the Romantic period of music. He was part of the heyday ... to glorify the concept of "program music." He is best known for ...
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  • Hindustani Classical Music is a North Indian classical music tradition ... Hindustani musical performance is based on a composition which is ...
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  • I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ... a progenitor of this idea in music composition. ==Notes== ...
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