Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- became deeply interested in American folk music; he traveled the country ... Frost, his impact on the development of a folk-centered, down-to-earth, uniquely ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- made it popular in Western pop and jazz music. == Description == ... music with koto, biwa and shamisen, folk music, jazz, and other modern pieces. ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- challenged and successfully mastered many music genres, including folk, country ... Darin was also an accomplished, award-winning actor and a music-business ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- composer. He is noted for his experimental music work (in particular his 1968 ... a number of themes within a framework of folk music from a variety of regions: ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- a common genre in Czech and Slovakian folk music. Polka is still a very ... countries, and among the Jewish Klezmer folk music ensembles, who play a wide ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- also the case in most forms of western folk music, where songs and dances ... #039;s volumes of Magyar and Romanian folk music), but also with sound recordings ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- smash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Outside of music, she had several memorable ... Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter ...8 KB (1,302 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ... Yodeling shows how intrinsic not only communication, but music and ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University ... music theory, poetry, literature, and folk music of the times, he never ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently, rock music. The origins of ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- - July 16, 2012) was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording ... Wells single-handedly changed the face of country music and controversially ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 23:17, 3 March 2023
- Danny Kortchmar. The two began playing folk music together. ... July 20, 1969, he performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Shortly thereafter ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... elements of native Cuban dance and folk music; score specifies usage ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 16:35, 20 May 2024
- Britten once wrote: “It is cruel, you know, that music should be ... day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- for ideas and inspiration, and much of his music "rose from mountains ... A quite different influence on Brahms was folk music. In his youth ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... of popular themes from central European folk music, and the gloomy (gothic ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... He combined the traditions of Afro-American music folk music with ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- ==Folk music== Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- killer, romanticized by the press and by folk singer Woody Guthrie, in his ... many of the great figures in country and folk music, like Joan Baez, and was ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
