Search results for "What is Music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- behind his work and creative process. In what few letters survive, Schubert ... melodic and harmonic writing, Schubert is counted among the greatest. ...30 KB (4,803 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- for her powerful voice and vocal range. She is one of the most celebrated ... who was playing Maria in The Sound of Music. These two women were friends ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- helped to elevate jazz from a popular music to a fully developed art form. between soloists and the orchestra set his music apart. Ellington was a consummate ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- #039;s most important performing arts venue, is located in London's Covent ... The current Royal Opera House is the third theater built on the Covent ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- the original matter out of which the world is made, Pythagoras dove into ... The mathematical order in beings is perceivable not by the physical ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... The ISBN is an important book identifier for libraries, book sellers ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- performing for more than 600,000 people, and is the only major cultural institution ... The Metropolitan Opera House in New York is now home to the American Ballet ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- National defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation ... The total land area is roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly known for his ... social science. He wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- The double bass, also known as the standup bass, is the largest and ... The double bass is generally regarded as the only modern descendant ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best ... His insight into orchestral resources is generally ascribed to knowledge ...21 KB (3,212 words) - 12:50, 22 May 2024
- from those of modern Western theater, which is usually intended either to ... of innovations that shaped Kathakali as it is performed today. He improved ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- The Prodigal Son, also known as the Lost Son, is about the inner nature ... clean by traditional Jewish standards. It is part of the Lukan concern with ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- – February 22, 1987), or Andy Warhol as he is known to the world, was an ... he contracted St. Vitus' disease, which is thought to result from complications ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 18:00, 27 July 2023
- began at the court of Ivan the Terrible. He is mentioned in 1570 as taking ... Cossacks from the Dnieper and the Don, in what marked the beginning of the ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France. She is known as the author and artist ... 1204), and Claire of Assisi (1194-1253). She is considered a pioneer in the ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to ... Pachelbel's music was influenced by south German composers such ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- Buxtehude, along with Heinrich Schütz, is considered today to be the ... He is thought to have been born with the name Diderich Buxtehude. ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 21:17, 15 July 2020
- The Tuareg (sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English ... a globalized society the place of the Tuareg is yet to be defined. Their old ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
