Search results for "Musical composition" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • melody, a movement, as well as an entire composition in differentiation to ... for several years before turning to composition, beginning with his first ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Thomas Robinson (c. 1560 – after 1609? (Julian calendar)) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who ...
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  • have made it the metal of choice for brass musical instruments. It is also ... point (900–940 °C, depending on composition) of brass and its flow ...
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  • West Chester, Pennsylvania and began his musical studies at age six and he ... at Curtis he studied piano, voice and composition and in 1928 was awarded ...
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  • Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... studies full-time and by 1907, he began composition lessons. Among his compositions ...
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  • of madrigals to utilize the practice of musical "imitation" to ... and colorful vogue for madrigal composition in England. Morley evidently ...
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  • meaning 'wooden sound') is a musical instrument in the percussion ... Camille Saint-Saens first used the xylophone in a symphonic composition ...
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  • focus had been on dancing rather than the musical performance. Whereas swing ... complex harmonies, and the resulting composition of the former type is ...
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  • A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting ... the thematic material. The quartet is a musical example of how the partnership ...
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  • of American jazz, Gershwin created a musical style that elevated the ... for his band. George was so busy with his musical schedule that he forgot ...
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  • of music combined the Italian and German musical backgrounds of his parents ... he conducted a performance of his own composition 'Stabat Mater' ...
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  • addressing the presentation of a musical composition. French composer Jean ... period), conventions governing musical composition were so strong that ...
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  • and instrumental pieces made him a musical figure known for his mature ... Mark's, one of the most prestigious musical posts in northern Italy; ...
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  • music work (in particular his 1968 musical composition Sinfonia for voices ... injured hand, so instead concentrated on composition. In 1947 came the first ...
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  • It was here that he had his first real musical lessons, with the long-time ... Franck); afterwards he went to study composition with Charles Widor at ...
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  • well as the art of singing, writing poetry, and composition. Villani, in his chronicle, also stated that Landini was an inventor of instruments, including ...
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  • Sarti at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, composition with Giuseppe Martucci ... life, after being appointed Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio di ...
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  • be expected. Syncopation is used in many musical styles, including classical ... #The first one matches the musical one: stepping on (or otherwise ...
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  • instrumentation which he featured in his musical works as well as in film ... His earliest musical training was on the viola at age five. In 1916 ...
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  • forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as ... is due to the ways he synthesized various musical styles, idioms and conventions ...
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