Search results for "Solo (music)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. with Jacopo Corsi, the leading patron of music in Florence. They felt contemporary ...
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  • of Illinois, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Western Reserve University ... :Music for Chamber Orchestra (1938) :Symphonietta (1941) ...
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  • stage to the delight of the audience. The music that he created made the ... composers in the world, and the best of his music contains a vitality and charm ...
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  • the flute which has benefitted the world of music richly. ... Quantz also wrote trio sonatas and vocal music resulting from his interests ...
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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...
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  • 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ... recapitulated in the final movement. His music is often contrapuntally complex ...
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  • and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia. He also ...
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  • in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions, and ... were deeply enamored with Couperin's music and paid tribute to him by ...
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  • The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago that formed ... " Butler soon departed the group for a solo career, and Curtis Mayfield ...
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  • collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...
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  • refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied ... of individualism with its emphasis on the solo performer being apart from ...
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  • was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... He particularly promoted contemporary music. He also continued to teach ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the human voice. He felt that, through music, man would be able to create ... Porpora was born in Naples. He graduated from the music conservatory ...
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  • and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer ... funk and of politically conscious African-American music. ...
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  • to create a uniquely complete sound for a solo performer, due to his dexterity ... began to play the folk circuit, where his solo performances and engaging ...
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  • The shamisen can be played solo or with other shamisen, in ensembles ... Although in the early days of Kabuki the music ensemble was virtually identical ...
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  • pianists of his day. His compositions for solo piano include some of the ... in Paris, where his father lived as a music teacher. Charles-Valentin ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • near his death, though the predominately solo nature of his skills meant ... Somehow, Tatum’s music could also be compared to a black diamond ...
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