Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ... projects to collect aboriginal folk music. For part of the time that ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- Hopkins toured widely and was a perennial favorite at folk festivals ... In the early 1960s, Hopkins began to play the folk circuit, where ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 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 ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- won additional fans in the growing folk music market and the band brought ... produced a major impact on the emerging folk music scene as the New York Times ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- works were often influenced by Armenian folk music. By synthesizing folk music ... In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- albeit notorious figures in American folk music. After spending time in ... single greatest repository of American folk music he ever encountered in ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... Delta by various blues collectors and folk music promoters in the early ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- The shamisen is used in several genres of music, including nagauta, or long ... Although in the early days of Kabuki the music ensemble was virtually identical ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
- regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... harmony, quite unlike the purer forms of folk music Glinka would have known ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- sword dance practiced in Korea. Korean folk dancers perform Geom-mu with ... Surviving as a folk dance and cultural asset, Geom-mu changed considerably ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- In the 1960s bluegrass reached northern audiences through the folk ... is not—and never was—purely folk music under a strict definition ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his own. As Frederick ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- been 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
- 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
- particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, one ... " he nonetheless utilized Russian folk music as source material and ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... or fans and reportedly disliked the folk scene of the 1960s. James ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 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
- Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music ... ===Folk music influences=== Traditional accounts of Enescu’s musical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 15:03, 20 May 2024
- forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... popular as parlor instruments for classical music, while German concertinas ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk musics of many countries, including England, Scotland and Ireland ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
