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

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  • being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical ... from serving the specific purposes of new music as well as the larger purposes ...
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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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  • also studied composition and began to write music. counterpoint, thus becoming the only formal music teacher Schoenberg would have. ...
    12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
  • revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... an instrument that was associated with folk music and buskers. ...
    15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
  • .Willi Apel, (ed.), Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press ... For early classical music, the clarinets and/or flutes may be omitted ...
    17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
  • tone of a viola, particularly in orchestral music, can have unintended consequences ... which allow a greater playing range. Modern music is played on these instruments ...
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  • being dated to 1521. The Royal Academy of Music in London, has an instrument ... but the feeling that it overpowers the music has led to very few modern ...
    23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
  • The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and ...
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  • The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... The Opry acted as the performing heart of the country music industry ...
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  • Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often ... His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus ...
    23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
  • to wind the coils along the top of the piece, increasing its height with ... all of the energy required to form the piece is supplied directly by the ...
    12 KB (2,032 words) - 05:56, 30 November 2022
  • the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... and organ as a child, taught largely by the music director of his Baptist church ...
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  • contributions to Protestant Church music in the second half of the ... this time he was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ ...
    15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
  • distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four music albums recorded between 1966 ... year, which gave Joplin her standard, "Piece of My Heart." The album ...
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  • (modern Aichi Prefecture), obtained a piece of Chinese cloisonné enamel ... in which the copper interior body of a piece was dissolved with acid after ...
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  • for the development of the aria and vocal piece within the opera or context ... Fioravanti at 18 months, began studying music theory at two, the piano ...
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  • vocalists in twentieth century popular music. Mastering poverty, a ... turbulent life, Armstrong had transcended music to become an iconic figure ...
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  • name of a movement in German literature and music from the late 1760s through ... Though it is argued that literature and music associated with Sturm und ...
    20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
  • subjects he showed avid interest in were music and sports. Bix began going ... Jazz,” mostly played sophisticated dance music. Along with “Tram,” guitarist ...
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  • Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...
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