Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... composer, saw the golden age of Carnatic music in Kerala. The contribution ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- mazurka, that were derived from Polish folk music. Many Russian composers ... Scotland Robert Burns began setting down folk music. This literary movement ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- and military music and determining what folk music would be officially recognized ... the Communist controlled areas to adapt folk music to create revolutionary ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... Moreover, another variant of rumba music and dance was popularized ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- songwriter and guitarist and the son of folk musician Tim Buckley. ... and stepfather, encouraged his interest in music and supported his desire ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 04:32, 31 July 2022
- Rebel Destiny (1934) and Suriname Folk Lore (1936). In the late 1930s ... However, African survivals can be seen in music, dance, speech, worship, ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent ... parts. However, none of his own writings on music mention the drum (nor the ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... and piano, reflects the Eastern European folk music styles of Bartók and Martinů ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ... nature of his scores. Today much of his music sounds relatively tame in ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
