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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • he and his brother Nikolai studied composition and theory with Siegfried ... in St. Petersburg would damage Russian musical traditions. In the tirades ...
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  • began to hold sway in modern composition. Some composers were highly ... and even displayed a hostility, to the old musical order in which melody and ...
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  • or forms of communication, for example, musical performances, cooking, presenting ... == Musical improvisation == Improvisation is an important aspect of ...
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  • of the Roman school of musical composition. Palestrina had a ... favorable impression that he was appointed musical director of the Julian Chapel ...
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  • Croce created secular and sacred vocal musical compositions that are ... in his collection Triaca musicale (musical cure for animal bites) of ...
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  • French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many twentieth ... combined with his perceived lack of musical success led to bouts of ...
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  • where he was exposed to a wide variety of musical traditions. His family lived ... training would be required to fulfill his musical ambitions. The Conservatoire ...
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  • predominant organizing principle in musical composition. Johann Sebastian ... In musical composition, contrapuntal techniques are important for ...
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  • England. His first known appointment to a musical position was as organist ... 1567. One of the nine tunes inspired the composition of the Fantasia on a Theme ...
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  • In 1876, he began musical studies with Alfredo Soffredini (1854-1923 ... 9, 1881. The cantata was presented at a musical contest in Milan and won ...
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  • to his great affinity for vocal composition. His song cycles, large ... the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts very early in life ...
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  • rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical style later known as serialism. ... and chief propagator of twelve-tone composition, Arnold Schoenberg, was ...
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  • atonal sound. Schnittke's musical philosophy was to place ... of the RSFSR, Soviet Union. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna ...
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