Search results for "Composition (music)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...
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  • While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one ... to his love of war, however, Charles loved music, and in his employ, Busnois ...
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  • he decided then that he would make Qawwali music his career. His first public ... group was in March 1971, at an annual music festival organized by Radio ...
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  • London); other well-known works are Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks ... The circumstances surrounding the composition of Messiah stand as ...
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  • hits as a singing team with June's composition, “Jackson” and the ... Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter ...
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  • in Paris, where his father lived as a music teacher. Charles-Valentin ... he withdrew into private study and composition for the remainder of his ...
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  • conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of the renowned ... leading promoter of contemporary classical music such as that of Béla Bartók ...
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  • In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...
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  • Chinese poetry, Tanka poetry, and instrumental music. Through Tanka ... == Composition == === Thematic division === The division of the collection ...
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  • accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...
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  • Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...
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  • which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...
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  • to his great affinity for vocal composition. His song cycles, large ... Britten once wrote: “It is cruel, you know, that music should be ...
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  • to do the same. His most popular composition is the Romanian Rhapsody ... harmony with André Gédalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and ...
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  • development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... Joseph Vogler), founder of three important music schools (in Mannheim, Stockholm ...
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  • In the early paintings of this style, such as Composition A (1920 ... Two Lines and Blue (1926), also known as Composition With Blue and Composition ...
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  • 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval ... evidently gave him a thorough training in music. He studied with Rogier de ...
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  • . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation ...
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  • mystics impacted the culture, philosophy, music, and art of Karnataka and ... somewhat difficult since their literature, music, devotion wed with their ...
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  • Fioravanti at 18 months, began studying music theory at two, the piano ... of the old school of Italy. Having learned music from his grandfather whom ...
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