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  • lyricism and introduced broader Western musical sensibilities into the South ... the age of 14, when he joined a traveling musical troupe headed by his elder ...
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  • Villiers Stanford's first female composition students. At Stanford ... herself able to balance family life and composition: "I can't do ...
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  • and was able to considerably widen his musical experience. He had three ... Mikhail to settle into the life of a musical dilettante, frequenting ...
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  • that they performed in their own musical gatherings. It is this solo ... for remembering various parts of a composition and they consist of the ...
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  • held to the late-Romantic idea that extra-musical sources, such as mysticism ... cooperation beyond boundaries and to build musical bridges towards cooperation ...
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  • In the early paintings of this style, such as Composition A (1920 ... Two Lines and Blue (1926), also known as Composition With Blue and Composition ...
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  • by combining German, Italian, and French musical elements in his operatic ... some of his greatest successes and the composition of what are regarded as ...
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  • born from a cultural synthesis of several musical streams: the vedic chant ... century, was perhaps the earliest musical composition presently known to ...
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  • down and has survived. Since creating musical manuscripts was very expensive ... the "common practice" of musical composition in the West for nearly ...
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  • type of marching or other movement with musical performance. Instrumentation ... evolved a rich and varied tradition of musical styles and marching traditions ...
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  • 1969). the history of classical Indian musical traditions can be traced ... Carnatic music is based on musical concepts mentioned in Bharata& ...
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  • in the form of verses, hymns, and musical compositions, rendering ... Their hymns (padas) set to various musical tones (ragas) aroused the ...
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  • of indigenous cultures. This aspect of his musical life was as important as ... ==Early musical career== [[Image:Bartok tablo.jpg|thumb|right|240px ...
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  • father, who had encouraged the boy's musical aspirations, had died in ... determined to devote himself entirely to composition. He thus began a course ...
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  • humans can recognize their sounds as musical. Moreover, as music is intuitive ... Musical composition is a term that describes the makeup of a piece ...
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  • and historical editions of a single composition can be uploaded. Also ... The library consisted mainly of scans of old musical editions out ...
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  • that would be sung using three to seven musical notes during Vedic sacrifices ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...
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  • and was an integral part of the Texas musical culture which broke away ... had a major hit with Van Zandt's composition "Pancho and Lefty ...
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  • La Marseillaise in its Trio section as a musical riposte to his arrest. Meanwhile ... ===Family musical business=== After establishing his first orchestra ...
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  • [[Image:Composition of 38th Parliament.png|thumb|250px|An example ... by the network of relationships between musical pitches in just intonation. ...
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  • in 1871. From 1878, he was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory ... others, especially in the scoring of his musical compositions, and with that ...
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  • with the clavichord. Accordingly, in musical circles the Italian or, ... a psaltery. A Latin manuscript work on musical instruments by Henri Arnault ...
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  • Benitez, The Maguindanaon Kulintang: Musical Innovation, Transformation ... Butocan, Palabunibunyan: A repertoire of musical pieces for the Maguindanaon ...
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  • Sturm und Drang enters the realm of musical composition with the aim of increasing ... on literature, the influence on musical composition remained limited and ...
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  • He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate ... or the rejection of repeating, symmetrical musical forms as insufficiently ...
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  • in print journalism, literature, and musical composition; Pulitzer fellowships ... the Pulitzer Prize Board has recognized musical submissions of a broader ...
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  • Born into a musical family strongly tied to the Christian tradition ... in Milan to begin his career by studying composition with Amilcare Ponchielli. ...
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  • practice of expressing specific emotions through musical means. ... counterpoint developed. More elaborate musical ornamentation, as well as ...
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  • lessons at seven. He also showed great musical aptitude at school and won ... Around this time Dwight answered an advertisement in the New Musical ...
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  • great composer of his century whose entire musical output is determined by ... concept of creating music based on extra-musical connotations, in his particular ...
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  • such as Anton Reicha as well as the musical compositions from composers ... in the development of Western culture, musical theory, aesthetics, and axiology. ...
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  • arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other ... still-life compositions, often including musical instruments. More recent ...
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  • composers to use emerging technologies for musical purposes. Several instruments ... recorder to develop a new technique for composition called Musique concrète. ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Alexander von Zemlinsky ... who efficiently perfected the art of composition as well as becoming a ...
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  • and then he shall be brought to the musical examination conducted by ... speravi, based on Psalm 30. The latter composition may have been a veiled ...
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  • brotherhood and perhaps his most beloved composition, has begun to appear in ... known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions. ...
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  • and most diverse ranges and styles of all musical instruments. As such it ... ===History and musical performance === The huge changes in the evolution ...
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  • A musical genius, Mendelssohn sometimes suffered the scorn of his ... Felix and his older sister, Fanny, were musical child prodigies. Mendelssohn ...
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  • violin and piano before he received formal musical training in Prague. He founded ... one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition. ...
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  • a prodigy of Qawwali, the devotional Sufi musical art form that dates back ... The composition of Nusrat's party changed many times over the ...
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  • on Harmony) and Fundamentals of Musical Composition, many of which are ... and Leonard Stein). Fundamentals of Musical Composition, new ed. [1970] 1999 ...
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  • and one of the earliest proponents of musical Romanticism. He was the ... man and decided to train him in musical composition and music theory. ...
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  • He had already attempted musical composition, and at this period produced ... Auber achieved another great musical triumph in La muette de Portici ...
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  • In his long career, there was scarcely a musical form that Stravinsky did ... written in a state of religious and musical ebullience." ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | Name = John Cage ... indicated a certain frustration with musical composition. However, as Cage ...
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  • not interest him, Scriabin failed his composition class and did not graduate ... and both would influence his music and musical thought. In 1909-1910 he ...
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  • Nevertheless, Brahms recognized a transcendent source for his musical ... showed great promise on the piano and in composition, and he helped to supplement ...
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  • public service, he succeeded in forging a musical language of colossal emotional ... in Russia. "I am willing to write a composition for each of the victims ...
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  • Conservatory in 1941 and professor of composition in 1966. In his classes ... Messiaen maintained that a musical composition must be measured against ...
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  • A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body ... and/or instruments in a polychoral composition. In typical eighteenth ...
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  • Australia, where they began their musical careers, achieving worldwide ... to return to England and seek their musical fortunes there. While at ...
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  • He received a thorough, but conservative, musical education from his father ... booed. Strauss knew he had found his own musical voice, saying "I now ...
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  • quot; (since 2002), which holds annual composition contests. ... and the first centuries B.C.E. saw the composition and redaction of the two ...
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  • a key factor in the development of many musical styles that emerged since ... instrument and enabled it to become a lead musical voice of remarkable versatility ...
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  • with their second release, the first composition and production from the ... " another Holland-Dozier-Holland composition, which reached number ...
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  • husky voice. She was well-rounded in her musical tastes and credited a range ... In 1962 Cline released her next single, the Hank Cochran composition ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Dusty Springfield ... British Female Artist by readers of New Musical Express in 1964, 1965, and 1968. ...
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  • and starred in the MGM-produced western-musical motion picture The Fastest ... And after 1967, due to changes in popular musical taste, Roy would have difficulty ...
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  • Salieri taught him the technique of composition and fostered the young ... Liszt left Vienna in 1823 to travel. In Paris, he studied composition ...
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  • tendencies to embrace the world. His musical rendering of this 'premature ... Bellini, and Donizetti played by a large musical box called orchestrion. ...
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  • freedom and wide experimentation with new musical styles and forms that challenged ... placing the performance above the composition. Similarly, many composers ...
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  • Collagen has an unusual amino acid composition and sequence: ... and so they are still used in making musical instruments such as fine ...
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  • best back-up bands, generating a powerful musical chemistry and creating recordings ... ===Early musical career (1955-1964)=== Pickett's forceful, passionate ...
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  • Calamity Jane, the most famous being the musical of the same name starring ... Here Anymore: Popular Culture and the Composition Classroom. Portsmouth ...
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  • damnation," and sent him off on his musical adventures with these words: ... de Paris, studying opera and composition. In an effort to fund his ...
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  • giving both composers and musicians a new musical apparatus for performance. ... many notable saxophonists became important musical figures, often leading their ...
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  • providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the ... institutions were reinstated and musical composition and performance revived ...
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  • from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical measured prose of which ... woven them into a romance of his own composition. He asserted that they ...
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  • Both of Wassily's parents were very musical. He also learned to play ... emotion. Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to designate his works: ...
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  • with the dance form by introducing Western musical instruments. He also reduced ... backed by musicians playing on traditional musical instruments. The actors ...
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  • an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other ... body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant ...
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  • popular over 150 years after their composition. Rather than exploit the ... years. He probably received some formal musical training from a German immigrant ...
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  • had a major record hit, his own novelty composition "Inka Dinka Doo, ... Rose's Jumbo (1962, based on the 1935 musical) and It's a Mad, Mad ...
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  • Dating from his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik ... du Nazaréen." His first musical hoax was published (announcing ...
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  • Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... vibration of the reed.Vermont University, Musical Instrument Classifications. ...
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  • father, whose opposition to his son's musical vocation had driven him ... the opera house. He was given lessons in composition by Giovanni Battista Sammartini ...
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  • function or the circumstances of their composition. Jewish and Christian ... to music; a sacred song accompanied with a musical instrument. ...
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  • and the cello, but also conducting and composition. Among his teachers were ... United States. He was banned from several musical ensembles in his homeland ...
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  • for the genre of opera, and expanded musical composition in format, quality ... Although he introduced no new musical forms, he expanded and enriched ...
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  • was not primarily a performer but a strong musical personality who expressed ... faithful for years, even decades. Many musical careers were almost entirely ...
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  • multiple melodies are woven into a singular musical expression. A significant way that Mozart would heighten the drama of a musical ...
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  • quot; "the theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition" and the "Parry ... poems?" Foley, The Theory of Oral Composition, Chapters 1 & 2The ...
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  • title track was the first of Browne's musical study of soul-searching ... and insightful lyrics, and a flair for composition rarely seen in the world ...
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  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... combinations differing for each composition. The change can be illustrated ...
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  • are possibly the most famous murders in musical history. ... was probably born in 1566. Gesualdo had a musical relationship with Pomponio ...
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  • on. Unlike Duke Ellington, whose strong musical personality commanded many ... his occasional solos reveal a sure musical instinct, allowing him to ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Bud Powell | Landscape = ... Powell's life, dedicating the composition "In Walked Bud" ...
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  • Timpani (also known colloquially as kettledrums) are musical instruments ... Today, they are used in many types of musical ensembles including concert ...
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  • He also started writing songs, but his new musical interests interfered with ... As Wilson's musical efforts became more ambitious, the group ...
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  • Gregorian chants are organized into eight scalar musical modes. Typical ... rarely been the subject of later musical composition, they are often omitted ...
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  • although a large part of his family played musical instruments. Born in Liège ... turned more to teaching, conducting, and composition. Among his most famous ...
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  • Commenting on musical poetics and the "redicovery and reacceptance ... of three symphonies, two operas, five musical theaters or musicals, and ...
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  • and band leader. He worked in almost every musical genre and wrote music for ... Zappa's ability to coalesce eclectic and highly-varied musical ...
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  • harmony is based. Hence, in orchestral composition, the tuba, along with ... in more than one finish for different musical settings. Although tone ...
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  • for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as ... After almost two centuries of decline, Vivaldi's musical reputation ...
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  • copper and then gold-plated it over a composition of 92.5 percent tin and ... may dictate leaving out the bow tie, and musical performers typically don ...
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  • to study piano with Carl Heymann and composition with Joachim Raff. When ... Moreover, he had the foresight to create a musical forum for young and rising ...
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  • was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well ... daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the ...
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  • {{Infobox musical artist | | Name = Charles Mingus ... Jazz." His refusal to compromise his musical integrity led to many onstage ...
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  • used in both Japanese folk and classical musical traditions. Sacred drums ... of movement and sound into taiko composition. Some groups, such as ...
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