Search results for "Piece (music)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point established by pitch relationships creating a set, in a given musical piece ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 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
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but it ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... a chair-caning design to the canvas of the piece. Braque, interested by Picasso ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- the vocal lines. The madrigal was a piece which was set to a love poem ... the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin ... States listened to a number of styles of music, including 'jump blues ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- 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 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
- periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... a hollowed out wooden body carved from a piece of alder, pine or spruce ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- Tempus) is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element ... As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- of Heinrich Isaac. This interest in early music would greatly influence his ... his Passacaglia, Op. 1 as his graduation piece in 1908. He met Alban Berg ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ... one of his finest organ pieces, the Grande piece Symphonique. From 1872, he ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... and culture and he expressed this in his music. His legacy as Norway's ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
