Search results for "Composition (music)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- was an American composer, inspiring composition teacher, and oboist. of Illinois, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Western Reserve University ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- melody, a movement, as well as an entire composition in differentiation to ... for several years before turning to composition, beginning with his first ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- it is said that Reger helped to push German music into the twentieth century ... Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 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
- the flute which has benefitted the world of music richly. ... Quantz also wrote trio sonatas and vocal music resulting from his interests ...4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 1 August 2022
- of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... law before deciding that the study and composition of music was his true ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- genres of English sacred and secular vocal music, John Blow's main contribution ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... some connection, probably as a director of music, with Santa Maria Formosa ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... chromatic scale became the basis of modern music written using the twelve ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition and/or performance in someone's honor, originally songs of courtship ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... was in Ferrara at the time. Gesualdo's music, which contained quick modifications ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- defined the beginning of the Baroque era in music. His duties at St. Mark's clearly included composition, for he ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- foundation in both western and non-western music. This foundation is due to ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- dated to after that time, so he may have ceased composition. ... Most of Taverner's music is vocal, and includes masses, Magnificats ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- century American composer of classical music who was best known for his ... physical nurturing components that makes my music sound as it does, is that ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- smallpox), Landini became devoted to music early in life, and mastered ... prior to 1370. Evidence in some of his music also points to this: He dedicated ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ... Still was very much of the attitude that "inspired" music ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the ... the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
