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- 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
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) drawn from Christian worship ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth ... was brought up in the house of a devoted Christian, Quintus Aurelius Memmius ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- 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
- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia. He also ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- guitar greats like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. ... amplified guitar (e.g., Charlie Christian), Lang’s sound was thin ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... music" or Contemporary Christian music). ==Non-western sacred music== ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- included Law, Theology, Philosophy and Music. He wrote works expounding ... positive impact on the development of Christian theology and practice. ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... philosophy and the writings of the early Christian philosophers, most notably ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- #039; most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ... Network and converted to a Christian music venue in 1990. ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:52, 8 January 2024
- wrote for all economic levels so that his music could touch as many as possible ... producing such musicals as Sweet Adeline, Music In the Air, Three Sisters ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- in Babylonia. A rich tradition of cantorial music flourished in later centuries ... in 70 C.E., a consensus developed that all music and singing would be banned ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... rich legacy of Americana, with its deep Christian and Puritan heritage, as ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Martha Reeves was brought up in the Christian church by her grandfather ... member Rosalind Ashford retired from the music business. However, several ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... a wide variety of Spirituals and other Christian music. Many of these songs ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including ... an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... culture. Jain, Buddhist, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Islamic influences ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- 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
- Aristotelian philosophy to contemporary Christian thought. Albertus tried ... other things, he rejected the idea of "music of the spheres" as ridiculous; ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer ... traditions. It has often been set to music, although the most famous ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- and a symbol of the way in which early Christian zealots attempted to suppress ... are still in existence. Two contemporary Christian historians, Socrates Scholasticus ...11 KB (1,782 words) - 16:39, 10 February 2024
- 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 ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- London); other well-known works are Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks ... stand as a legacy to Handel's Christian faith. Messiah was composed ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... movement of the 1930s, notably in the folk music of Pete Seeger (1919-2014 ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music in her generation, and sometimes ... found personal rewards in bringing the Christian message to both black and ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- of the books of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Elegantly written ... filling their lives instead with music and the Holy Spirit. A believer ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- widely and was influential in the gospel music scene, and his training of ... the executive committee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 19:15, 24 November 2023
- with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... from the military service), especially Christian youth and prisoners of ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ... Three main regional concentrations of Christian population exist, namely ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- The parable is one of the clearest expressions of the Christian concepts ... response. The parable speaks to the Christian sense that God is a God ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- eventually brought tonal and harmonious music to millions, was invented ... of the George A. Prince & Co. Music Store at 200 Main St. ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Christ. He, thus, reaffirmed the basic Christian faith, while also confronting ... at what was then the new International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- 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
- French Polynesia is largely Christian. Fifty–four percent of French ... were replaced instead by genres of Christian music such as “himene tarava ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- Born into a musical family strongly tied to the Christian tradition ... Italy, into a family with a long history of music. Only five years old when ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 22:49, 28 August 2021
- ===The Christian Mission=== In 1865, Booth and his wife Catherine opened The Christian Revival ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- While non-Christian traditions such as Judaism used scrolls, early ... about 390 C.E., all the texts (Gnostic Christian) are codices. The earliest ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- like a king.Hazrat Inayat Kahn, The Music of Life (Omega Publications ... incorporating the basic elements of music, colors, nature, as well ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... ==Symbols drawn from pre-Christian traditions== Common in most Christian ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen (1952) about ... when he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he "roused ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- of Avicenna, which later influenced the Christian theology of Thomas Aquinas. ... instruments. He wrote a notable book on music, Kitab al-Musiqa (The Book ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- The islands are predominantly Christian. The largest individual denominations ... The music of the Virgin Islands reflects long-standing cultural ties ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- before finding his first success as a music critic in the Star newspaper ... his daughter the darker side of "Christian charity," and offers ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 07:04, 18 April 2024
- Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music ... Awards for outstanding achievements in Christian music. ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 00:35, 8 December 2022
- attempted a synthesis of Platonism with Christian theology, and greatly influenced ... painting, sculpture, architecture, music...this century appears to ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography category:Religion category:Philosophy Dmitri_Merezhkovsky|142959230|Zinaida_Gippius ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- decisions that would help build the Christian social group into a worldwide ... a member of the local Band of Hope—band music was to be another hallmark ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- Johan Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of European classical music ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- as essential to transforming Korea into a Christian society. Ewha University ... *College of Arts (Music/Fine Arts/Design) *College of Law ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- By the late 1930s, noted jazz guitarists like Charlie Christian were ... electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing music with his January 1935 Decca ...20 KB (2,960 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- ear. A strong foundation in composing, music theory, and orchestration ... to creating a unified realization of the music being performed. ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- 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 ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper The Christian Science Monitor. society. She made her discovery of Christian Science at a time when ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- piano concerto in the history of Western music has its antecedent in the ... century in Italy to describe vocal music with instrumental accompaniment; ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- century, though one can argue that his music was not as groundbreaking ... that featured various styles of dance music. Since he needed new charts ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:10, 28 September 2023
- of the greatest figures in the history of music. He was the preeminent figure ... faith and its effect on his life and music. Privately, Beethoven often ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- 1800s. In the 1970s, the Cook Islands Christian Church was formed from ... coconut shells. In the Cook Islands, Christian music is extremely popular ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music ... He was also a noted violin teacher. Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- in general to works of a genre of Early Christian literature.Peter Stuhlmacher ... Irenaeus denounced various early Christian groups that used only one ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- that aesthetic experiences in arts such as music are closely tied to mathematical ... As a Christian thinker, St. Augustine (354-430) ascribed the origin ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... point of continuity in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ==Composition ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... philosophical foundations were rooted in Christian Europe, believed in the ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... Arnold Toynbee's assessment that the Christian church was "the chrysalis ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- liberal education with a sole view to the Christian ministry." This required ... and arts programs, including theater, early music concerts (performed by the ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- he courageously threatened the powerful Christian Emperor Theodosius I with ... 337 and 340 in Trier, Germany, into a Christian family at a time when being ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- The free floating reed was developed in 1778, by Christian-Gottlieb ... and composers were looking for, and the music of Beethoven and Berlioz ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies and instrumental ... organist) Elgar was exposed to liturgical music from his earliest years and ...21 KB (3,203 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- were thus brought more securely into the Christian fold. ... of Easter Sunday. In many liturgical Christian denominations, Maundy Thursday ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- for ideas and inspiration, and much of his music "rose from mountains ... the requiem, Brahms excluded conventional Christian confessions in the work ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- an intimate relationship with the first Christian emperor, Constantine, but ... Constantine before the emperor became a Christian and even rescues Rome of ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- and enthusiastic worship filled with gospel music and traditional spiritual ... to explore the city. Ailey was drawn to the music from the big band jazz clubs ...17 KB (2,746 words) - 08:42, 23 July 2023
- The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... named the organization the East London Christian Mission. The name The Salvation ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- but literature, film, architecture and music. The term may apply to any ... In music, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, the members ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024
- reading. This tradition was inherited by Christian writers, for whom allegorical ... the ancient world and the "new" Christian world. People of the Middle ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 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
- emulated by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. ... he produced many large scale poems of Christian inspiration. His first ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, and gospel music, with a heavily accentuated ... the Pentecostal churches because of the music and excitement he and his ...23 KB (3,362 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- Then, in pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was ... At various times and in various places throughout medieval Christian ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- are camps for the performing arts, rock music, magic, computers, children ... Christian summer camps are also very popular. In addition to the non ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- teachers, among whom were Pavel Gerdt, Christian Johansson, Ekaterina Vazem ... choreographed The Dying Swan for her to the music of Saint-Saens. It became ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- he published, on the request of King Christian VII of Denmark Histoire ... social science. He wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since the first ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- among his contemporaries, and his music has remained an inspiration ... rather than just a popular entertainer. The music was jarringly different from ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- a hard-edged guitar sound. Known for his music's powerful, rumba-like ... world tour in 2005 to celebrate 50 years in music. He was inducted into the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- of the instrument, commonly used in early-music ensembles. Sackbuts were ... trombone was used continuously in church music and in some other settings ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 17:59, 2 May 2023
- and paraphrases, supplemented by Christian music. The typical service ... both believing adults and the children of Christian families. Communion in ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- by studying the scriptures as a Christian humanist scholar. As a ... made rapid progress especially in Latin and music. He received advanced instruction ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- Manouches, Reinhardt developed a taste for music early on under the influence ... Paris, spending carefree days immersed in music. Gypsies, frequently on the ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- the Samaritans respond positively to the Christian message. ... Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- Old English poetry is of two types, the pre-Christian and the Christian ... Christianized even though it relates pre-Christian history. It sets the tone ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- benefit of the state, Harris held strong Christian beliefs are regarded strict ... to the individual. He included art, music, scientific, and manual studies ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an audience ... We also say that music should be used to procure not one benefit but ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- homage. The composer had instructed that no music be played at his funeral; ... When he was twenty, Verdi left for Milan to study music, but the Conservatory ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- name of a movement in German literature and music from the late 1760s through ... Though it is argued that literature and music associated with Sturm und ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Young Germany, but remained a committed Christian. He was as accutely aware ... loosely based on the true story of Johann Christian Woyzeck, a Leipzig wigmaker ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... but refused to recognize it as a Christian institution since the second ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
