Search results for "Musical ensemble" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher ... Cowell's willingness to be open to a multitude of musical influences ...
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  • Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin. The ... he joined the company as its founding musical director. ...
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  • A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body of singers who perform together is called a choir or chorus. The former ...
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  • for each of the five instruments in the ensemble, and compositions are passed ... Benitez, The Maguindanaon Kulintang: Musical Innovation, Transformation ...
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  • quality of jazz music (and some related musical genres) and a specific period ... thing to do, since the swing quality of a musical piece is essentially a matter ...
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  • Timpani (also known colloquially as kettledrums) are musical instruments ... Today, they are used in many types of musical ensembles including concert ...
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  • twentieth century. It combined several musical forms to inculcate a new ... Chicago, it changed and took on different musical characteristics. ...
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  • was a major influence in developing the ensemble into one of the world’s ... conductors outside of the Austro-Hungarian musical sphere to recognize and ...
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  • A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and ...
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  • and moved from the Renaissance ensemble of diverse instruments in ... The Gonzaga family was under the musical guidance of a Flemish composer ...
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  • Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... be obvious from listening. Authoritative musical information about a piece ...
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  • he was exposed to opera and a rudimentary musical education. He learned a ... in 1938, Morton made a series of seminal musical-narrative recordings for ...
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  • by combining German, Italian, and French musical elements in his operatic ... Italian opera at that time. He wrote more ensemble numbers and choruses, and ...
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  • held to the late-Romantic idea that extra-musical sources, such as mysticism ... cooperation beyond boundaries and to build musical bridges towards cooperation ...
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  • given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the fifteenth ... the parts are derived canonically from one musical line. ...
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  • waste. Empty drums occasionally became musical instruments in a steel pan band. ==Shape== Barrels often have a convex shape, bulging at the middle ...
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  • In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from ... in a cooperative relationship with other musical entities. Within a piece ...
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  • are possibly the most famous murders in musical history. ... was probably born in 1566. Gesualdo had a musical relationship with Pomponio ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | Background = group_or_band ... a powerful yet technically impressive musical style that foreshadowed ...
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  • a concerto for harpsichord and chamber ensemble (1926). In these works, ... Dvorak, etc.) who juxtaposed folkloric musical materials with traditional ...
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