Search results for "Music composition" - New World Encyclopedia

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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 ... and most substantial form of sacred music composition in Europe. ...
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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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  • He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...
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  • Canon Muzzillo. As he had shown talent for music, Jommelli was enrolled in ... of admission, his first known church music, a five-voice fugue a cappella ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...
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  • an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...
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  • a crucial figure in the history of music. His work bridged the "old ... he followed an inventive approach to music composition. While his inventions ...
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  • contributions to Protestant Church music in the second half of the ... this time he was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ ...
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  • Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...
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  • a Finnish composer of European classical music, and one of the most popular ... On his views about composing he once stated, "Music is for me ...
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  • Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... being more specifically applied to chamber music genres with either a solo ...
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