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- conflict resolution within a musical composition. Corelli worked towards ... singer of the pope’s chapel, taught him composition. His first major ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- opera. Rameau explained his essential musical styles in his theoretical ... as “the common practice” in musical composition in the Western music ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- contribution to English society and the musical world was his profound maturity ... This was also the time of Blow's composition of a two-part setting ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- the key center of a particular musical composition. Although the key ... a mode rather than a key. In Western musical composition, the key of a song ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- Prince Igor, and for later providing the musical inspiration for the musical ... in 1862, when under his tutelage in composition he began his Symphony ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- forms the basis or accompaniment of a composition. A riff can be as simple ... riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- explain why the octave was noticed in many musical cultures and at a time when ... 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- and historical events of the time in his musical output and showed, especially ... as anyone could tell, he had no further musical appointments, nor can any ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Quantz began his musical studies as a child with his uncle because ... best be used to evaluate the merits of a composition and performance or performer. ...4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 1 August 2022
- of indigenous cultures. This aspect of his musical life, along with his concerns ... Music where he received his Diploma in Composition. From 1900 through 1904 ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- Still worked in a conventional tonal musical syntax and possessed ... measure of beauty and value in musical composition. ==Life and career== ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 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
- in New York, where he taught organ and composition. From 1907, he worked ... however, he was progressive in his musical works and bridged the periods ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- sixteenth century "were hotbeds of musical radicalism and experimentation ... following assertion regarding assigning a musical imitation to a text or libretto. ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- This musical curiosity manifested itself in wonderfully realized arrangements ... although cultured; she recognized his musical abilities, and took him ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- disposed of older and more traditional musical procedures to put forth ... Unlike many composers born into highly musical environments, his early ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- 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
- Category:Image wanted Thomas Robinson (c. 1560 – after 1609? (Julian calendar)) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- have made it the metal of choice for brass musical instruments. It is also ... point (900–940 °C, depending on composition) of brass and its flow ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- West Chester, Pennsylvania and began his musical studies at age six and he ... at Curtis he studied piano, voice and composition and in 1928 was awarded ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... studies full-time and by 1907, he began composition lessons. Among his compositions ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- of madrigals to utilize the practice of musical "imitation" to ... and colorful vogue for madrigal composition in England. Morley evidently ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- meaning 'wooden sound') is a musical instrument in the percussion ... Camille Saint-Saens first used the xylophone in a symphonic composition ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- focus had been on dancing rather than the musical performance. Whereas swing ... complex harmonies, and the resulting composition of the former type is ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting ... the thematic material. The quartet is a musical example of how the partnership ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- of American jazz, Gershwin created a musical style that elevated the ... for his band. George was so busy with his musical schedule that he forgot ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- of music combined the Italian and German musical backgrounds of his parents ... he conducted a performance of his own composition 'Stabat Mater' ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- addressing the presentation of a musical composition. French composer Jean ... period), conventions governing musical composition were so strong that ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- and instrumental pieces made him a musical figure known for his mature ... Mark's, one of the most prestigious musical posts in northern Italy; ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- music work (in particular his 1968 musical composition Sinfonia for voices ... injured hand, so instead concentrated on composition. In 1947 came the first ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- It was here that he had his first real musical lessons, with the long-time ... Franck); afterwards he went to study composition with Charles Widor at ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- well as the art of singing, writing poetry, and composition. Villani, in his chronicle, also stated that Landini was an inventor of instruments, including ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- Sarti at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, composition with Giuseppe Martucci ... life, after being appointed Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio di ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- be expected. Syncopation is used in many musical styles, including classical ... #The first one matches the musical one: stepping on (or otherwise ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- instrumentation which he featured in his musical works as well as in film ... His earliest musical training was on the viola at age five. In 1916 ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as ... is due to the ways he synthesized various musical styles, idioms and conventions ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- he and his brother Nikolai studied composition and theory with Siegfried ... in St. Petersburg would damage Russian musical traditions. In the tirades ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- began to hold sway in modern composition. Some composers were highly ... and even displayed a hostility, to the old musical order in which melody and ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- or forms of communication, for example, musical performances, cooking, presenting ... == Musical improvisation == Improvisation is an important aspect of ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- of the Roman school of musical composition. Palestrina had a ... favorable impression that he was appointed musical director of the Julian Chapel ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- Croce created secular and sacred vocal musical compositions that are ... in his collection Triaca musicale (musical cure for animal bites) of ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many twentieth ... combined with his perceived lack of musical success led to bouts of ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- where he was exposed to a wide variety of musical traditions. His family lived ... training would be required to fulfill his musical ambitions. The Conservatoire ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- predominant organizing principle in musical composition. Johann Sebastian ... In musical composition, contrapuntal techniques are important for ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- England. His first known appointment to a musical position was as organist ... 1567. One of the nine tunes inspired the composition of the Fantasia on a Theme ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- In 1876, he began musical studies with Alfredo Soffredini (1854-1923 ... 9, 1881. The cantata was presented at a musical contest in Milan and won ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- to his great affinity for vocal composition. His song cycles, large ... the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts very early in life ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical style later known as serialism. ... and chief propagator of twelve-tone composition, Arnold Schoenberg, was ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- atonal sound. Schnittke's musical philosophy was to place ... of the RSFSR, Soviet Union. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- tetrahedral sheets have the chemical composition (Al,Si)3O4. ... Depending on the composition of the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- Commenting on the art of composing, he remarked, "A composition ... finding private tutors in classical composition. One of his teachers was ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- word of Russian. Although he had almost no musical education, Khachaturian ... I wanted to write the kind of composition in which the public would ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- to changes in tempo, timbre, and other musical parameters. ... tonality than the home key, and the composition may continue naturally ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- the melodic and harmonic lines of a composition for emphasis and expression. ... a theoretical book, The Craft of Musical Composition, in which he ranks ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- German opera and continuing the excellent musical direction of modern symphonies ... of each section and movement of a composition, and receiving from each ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- of the cathedral there. Soon Dufay's musical gifts were noticed by the ... in Ferrara, some of the most important musical patrons of the Renaissance ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 03:20, 25 February 2023
- given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the fifteenth ... the parts are derived canonically from one musical line. ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- The circumstances surrounding the composition of Messiah stand as ... was permitted to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard techniques ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal composition. It begins ... or even fully natural mode of musical composition. Nevertheless, the ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity ... a syncopated melody in the right hand. A composition in this style is called ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- to do the same. His most popular composition is the Romanian Rhapsody ... … a piece deserves to be called a musical composition only if it has a line ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- in the music's conception and composition according to the norms ... The Mass, as a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- notational systems. Frescobaldi offered musical rewards in the intrinsic ... his characteristically sporadic style of composition, and the receding hairline ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- difficult to decide between playing and composition. Certainly other professionals ... Meyerbeer left Paris for Berlin in 1842 to take the post of Court ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- This simpler melodic and harmonic composition allowed an emphasis on ... relative. He clearly received an excellent musical education, probably at a ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- in Madrid, piano with José Tragó, and composition with Felipe Pedrell. In ... The narrative of his well-know composition El amor brujo deals with ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- conventions to create an original American musical style recognized as a precursor ... Joplin emerged as a ground-breaking musical innovator. Joplin (along ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- The final composition of Adi Granth was prepared by Guru Gobind Singh ... as Angs (limbs) in Sikh tradition. The composition is divided on the basis ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- interests in music led him to assemble a musical entourage consisting of ... was as a result of this meeting that the Musical Offering (BWV 1079) was ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy ... and was often seen as a modernist in his musical taste; he and his compatriot ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- to the piano. One of the most talented musical child prodigies of all time ... Conservatory, where he studied organ and composition, the latter under Fromental ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- quality of jazz music (and some related musical genres) and a specific period ... more detailed and organized type of musical composition and musical notation ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- Ives took an open-minded approach to musical theory, encouraging his ... and to a large degree continued the musical experimentation begun by ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- is opposed to "successive composition," where voices were ... These musical innovations appeared in a greater context of societal ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- incorporated more freedom into their musical composition and begun to blend ... with a wider usage of African musical composition and instrument mixed ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- publication—some motets (a polyphonic composition usually in three parts ... The Gonzaga family was under the musical guidance of a Flemish composer ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- values which combined his prodigious musical talent and his growing personal ... he withdrew into private study and composition for the remainder of his ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is an integer musical notation used ... and by further extension most subsequent musical styles. ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- but never took formal lessons in composition. Nonetheless, he began ... 039;s commentary on trends in modern musical composition at the time (the mid ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- the term applies to a form of large-scale musical 'argument', and ... by the time of Bach and Handel, such a composition drew apart from the sonata ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- His musical setting of the Finnish saga “Kalevala” is a particularly ... Sibelius used each one to work out a musical idea and/or to further develop ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin. The ... of Music, he studied piano and composition as well. At 20 years of ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- into a poor family and thus denied the musical education considered mandatory ... fell into despair, vowing to give up musical composition forever. Merelli intervened ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher ... constraints imposed by a prewritten musical composition. ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- conductors outside of the Austro-Hungarian musical sphere to recognize and ... He studied in the Cologne conservatory, learning piano and composition ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- which generates a stability to the musical composition. Chord composition ... as “the common practice” in musical composition in the Western music ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... be obvious from listening. Authoritative musical information about a piece ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... reading ability, and having a trained musical ear. A strong foundation ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially in musical theatre, greatly ... of Holstein; later he held a number of musical directorships, and in 1787 ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Ugly Woman." Their first hit composition was "Hard Times, ... of Smokey Joe's Cafe, a 1995 Broadway musical based on their work. The ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- wider context of presenting that opera or musical drama as a symbol of the ... Italy, was a child prodigy from a highly musical family, not unusual for ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- ) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and ... the Russian Empire. He displayed unusual musical abilities by the age of ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- his childhood family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together ... would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training. It was for this ...31 KB (4,922 words) - 00:40, 11 August 2022
- a childbirth—and probably also his first musical serenade, Endimione, on ... if he would devote his talents to musical drama. In La Romanina's ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- deep faith, Dvořák often attributed his musical talents as being "a ... Dvořák's parents recognized his musical talent early, and he received ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ... believed that the preservation of the musical heritage of his native England ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- His musical innovations and expertise influenced a wide range of musicians ... music, helping spark his interest in musical composition. He also spent several ...29 KB (4,117 words) - 21:00, 9 December 2023
- pieces fit this description, with some musical romanticism producing strong ... becoming more prevalent and as a result musical style underwent changes ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- In the history of Western musical tradition, the evolution of symphony ... of four proportionate groups of similar musical instruments, generally appearing ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- their own color). The use of folklore for musical motifs was guided by the ... family, Rimsky-Korsakov showed musical ability from an early age ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
