Search results for "Chord (music)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... quot;/"areas" such as the Tristan chord. As tonal harmony ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... A key may be major or minor. Some music is considered to be in a mode—such ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- 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 ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string) is three or more different notes that are played simultaneously, or near ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad ... asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- which was formerly used in classical music, utilizes 'sympathetic ... to the equivalent of an open major or minor chord in Western music theory. ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key ... Taylor (Radano 1993, 108-109), have written music that is described as atonal ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- blues guitarist, who played a droning, one-chord type of blues distinct from ... became his trademark. Rhythmically, his music was primitive and relatively ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 06:12, 3 August 2022
- revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... an instrument that was associated with folk music and buskers. ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- to make a major mark in the folk and rock music scenes. His unique, virtuoso ... Gary became interested in music while still a small boy. At the age ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ... == Aeolian harps in music == [[Image:Aeolian harp in the old castle ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... typically found in chromatic harmonicas, chord harmonicas, and many octave ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid ... boundaries. Elvis Presley's rockabilly music was popular on northern radio ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
- Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- a few chords and had no formal training in music, but he possessed an exceptional ... * [http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/music/401/ Biography (www ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:39, 22 November 2023
