Search results for "Modern music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- achieved a difficult balance between modern music and American folk styles ... in which he fused its divergent style with modern and classical forms to create ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 04:25, 24 May 2024
- The shamisen is used in several genres of music, including nagauta, or long ... the Azuchi period the basic shape of the modern shamisen was established ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
- was a Flemish composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous composer ... court; nonetheless, he certainly knew his music, since his earliest mass ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ... The history of modern mambo begins in 1938, when a song called "Mambo ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... salsa came to describe a specific style of music in the mid-1970s as New York ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- techniques of different periods of music, such as the Baroque, Romantic ... held mystic beliefs which influenced his music. In the 1960s he studied ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... a single or triple coil--similar to the modern French horn, and were used ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is ... or silver valveless forerunner of the modern-day flugelhorn to direct ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- The usage of the term is not unique to music but has application in medicine ... by composers and percussionists of modern music. One might assign various ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- for his research on the psychology of music and sound. He founded the ... young age. His main interest however, was music, and by the age of ten Stumpf ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- as well as oratorios, songs, and incidental music. He was especially renowned ... country's economic progress, such as modern ship-building techniques. ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- quot;baby flute" or piccolo flute the modern piccolo has the same type ... was audible above battles. In cultured music, however, the first piccolos ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:24, 26 December 2023
- on that instrument. Only Milt Jackson in modern jazz has a comparable stature ... Spells.” The distinguished, chamber music style of the Goodman trio ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
- these ballads were antecedents of the modern newspaper. ... Ballads have also been imitated in modern poetry, most notably by the ...9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023
- known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. Building upon the ... a marked influence over set design, costumes, and music. ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ... widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... Edward W. Guo, known as Feldmahler, an 18-year-old Canadian music ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- bassist best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony ... Koussevitzky was a great champion of modern music, commissioning a ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- do a good job."T.S. Eliot, "The Music of Poetry," 1942. Likewise ... Bible, was the major precursor for many modern poets writing free verse ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
