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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 ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) drawn from Christian worship ...
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  • – 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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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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  • guitar greats like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. ... amplified guitar (e.g., Charlie Christian), Lang’s sound was thin ...
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  • Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... music" or Contemporary Christian music). ==Non-western sacred music== ...
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  • included Law, Theology, Philosophy and Music. He wrote works expounding ... positive impact on the development of Christian theology and practice. ...
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  • of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... philosophy and the writings of the early Christian philosophers, most notably ...
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  • #039; most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ... Network and converted to a Christian music venue in 1990. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... rich legacy of Americana, with its deep Christian and Puritan heritage, as ...
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  • Martha Reeves was brought up in the Christian church by her grandfather ... member Rosalind Ashford retired from the music business. However, several ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The 'Swathi Thirunal College of Music' and 'College ... culture. Jain, Buddhist, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Islamic influences ...
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  • which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...
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  • Aristotelian philosophy to contemporary Christian thought. Albertus tried ... other things, he rejected the idea of "music of the spheres" as ridiculous; ...
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  • The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer ... traditions. It has often been set to music, although the most famous ...
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  • and a symbol of the way in which early Christian zealots attempted to suppress ... are still in existence. Two contemporary Christian historians, Socrates Scholasticus ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • widely and was influential in the gospel music scene, and his training of ... the executive committee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...
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  • with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... from the military service), especially Christian youth and prisoners of ...
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  • Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ... Three main regional concentrations of Christian population exist, namely ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • eventually brought tonal and harmonious music to millions, was invented ... of the George A. Prince & Co. Music Store at 200 Main St. ...
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  • Christ. He, thus, reaffirmed the basic Christian faith, while also confronting ... at what was then the new International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan ...
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  • an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...
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  • French Polynesia is largely Christian. Fifty–four percent of French ... were replaced instead by genres of Christian music such as “himene tarava ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ===The Christian Mission=== In 1865, Booth and his wife Catherine opened The Christian Revival ...
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  • While non-Christian traditions such as Judaism used scrolls, early ... about 390 C.E., all the texts (Gnostic Christian) are codices. The earliest ...
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  • like a king.Hazrat Inayat Kahn, The Music of Life (Omega Publications ... incorporating the basic elements of music, colors, nature, as well ...
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  • Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... ==Symbols drawn from pre-Christian traditions== Common in most Christian ...
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  • two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen (1952) about ... when he appeared at the London Palladium music hall in 1948, he "roused ...
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  • of Avicenna, which later influenced the Christian theology of Thomas Aquinas. ... instruments. He wrote a notable book on music, Kitab al-Musiqa (The Book ...
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  • The islands are predominantly Christian. The largest individual denominations ... The music of the Virgin Islands reflects long-standing cultural ties ...
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  • before finding his first success as a music critic in the Star newspaper ... his daughter the darker side of "Christian charity," and offers ...
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  • Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music ... Awards for outstanding achievements in Christian music. ...
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  • attempted a synthesis of Platonism with Christian theology, and greatly influenced ... painting, sculpture, architecture, music...this century appears to ...
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  • Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography category:Religion category:Philosophy Dmitri_Merezhkovsky|142959230|Zinaida_Gippius ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Johan Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of European classical music ...
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  • The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...
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  • as essential to transforming Korea into a Christian society. Ewha University ... *College of Arts (Music/Fine Arts/Design) *College of Law ...
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  • Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...
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  • By the late 1930s, noted jazz guitarists like Charlie Christian were ... electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing music with his January 1935 Decca ...
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  • ear. A strong foundation in composing, music theory, and orchestration ... to creating a unified realization of the music being performed. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper The Christian Science Monitor. society. She made her discovery of Christian Science at a time when ...
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  • piano concerto in the history of Western music has its antecedent in the ... century in Italy to describe vocal music with instrumental accompaniment; ...
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  • century, though one can argue that his music was not as groundbreaking ... that featured various styles of dance music. Since he needed new charts ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 1800s. In the 1970s, the Cook Islands Christian Church was formed from ... coconut shells. In the Cook Islands, Christian music is extremely popular ...
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  • Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music ... He was also a noted violin teacher. Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras ...
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  • in general to works of a genre of Early Christian literature.Peter Stuhlmacher ... Irenaeus denounced various early Christian groups that used only one ...
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  • that aesthetic experiences in arts such as music are closely tied to mathematical ... As a Christian thinker, St. Augustine (354-430) ascribed the origin ...
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  • Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... point of continuity in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ==Composition ...
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  • for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... philosophical foundations were rooted in Christian Europe, believed in the ...
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  • The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... Arnold Toynbee's assessment that the Christian church was "the chrysalis ...
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  • liberal education with a sole view to the Christian ministry." This required ... and arts programs, including theater, early music concerts (performed by the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The free floating reed was developed in 1778, by Christian-Gottlieb ... and composers were looking for, and the music of Beethoven and Berlioz ...
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  • He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies and instrumental ... organist) Elgar was exposed to liturgical music from his earliest years and ...
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  • were thus brought more securely into the Christian fold. ... of Easter Sunday. In many liturgical Christian denominations, Maundy Thursday ...
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  • for ideas and inspiration, and much of his music "rose from mountains ... the requiem, Brahms excluded conventional Christian confessions in the work ...
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  • an intimate relationship with the first Christian emperor, Constantine, but ... Constantine before the emperor became a Christian and even rescues Rome of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... named the organization the East London Christian Mission. The name The Salvation ...
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  • but literature, film, architecture and music. The term may apply to any ... In music, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, the members ...
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  • reading. This tradition was inherited by Christian writers, for whom allegorical ... the ancient world and the "new" Christian world. People of the Middle ...
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  • Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...
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  • emulated by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. ... he produced many large scale poems of Christian inspiration. His first ...
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  • boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, and gospel music, with a heavily accentuated ... the Pentecostal churches because of the music and excitement he and his ...
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  • Then, in pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was ... At various times and in various places throughout medieval Christian ...
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  • are camps for the performing arts, rock music, magic, computers, children ... Christian summer camps are also very popular. In addition to the non ...
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  • teachers, among whom were Pavel Gerdt, Christian Johansson, Ekaterina Vazem ... choreographed The Dying Swan for her to the music of Saint-Saens. It became ...
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  • he published, on the request of King Christian VII of Denmark Histoire ... social science. He wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and ...
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  • blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since the first ...
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  • among his contemporaries, and his music has remained an inspiration ... rather than just a popular entertainer. The music was jarringly different from ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the instrument, commonly used in early-music ensembles. Sackbuts were ... trombone was used continuously in church music and in some other settings ...
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  • and paraphrases, supplemented by Christian music. The typical service ... both believing adults and the children of Christian families. Communion in ...
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  • by studying the scriptures as a Christian humanist scholar. As a ... made rapid progress especially in Latin and music. He received advanced instruction ...
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  • Manouches, Reinhardt developed a taste for music early on under the influence ... Paris, spending carefree days immersed in music. Gypsies, frequently on the ...
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  • the Samaritans respond positively to the Christian message. ... Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • benefit of the state, Harris held strong Christian beliefs are regarded strict ... to the individual. He included art, music, scientific, and manual studies ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... but refused to recognize it as a Christian institution since the second ...
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  • musical performances but also an education in music. ==Life== ... Corea developed his piano skills by exploring music on his own. A ...
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  • In the Christian Bible, the magi (or "wise men") are sent ... There is an oppositional element in Christian thought between secular ...
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  • life in Tonga is heavily influenced by the Christian faith. ... three times in the 1770s, Fletcher Christian led the mutiny of the HMS ...
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  • one of monotheistic animism. Efforts by Christian missionaries have converted a very small segment of the Nuer people to Christianity, but most ...
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  • of the Church of Tuvalu, a Protestant Christian church. Seventh Day Adventists ... polygamy (having more than one wife). The Christian religion shapes attitudes ...
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  • the population practice Christianity or Christian beliefs blended with traditional ... passed on to the spiritual world. Christian music came to Liberia through ...
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  • in the 1960s and 1970s. Gaye's soul music performances were unique ... songwriter-producers in African American music, such as Stevie Wonder, Luther ...
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  • the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience. According ... including two Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards (including "Artist ...
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  • a system of metaphysics necessary for a Christian interpretation of the world ... interpretation of objective reality from Christian neoplatonism, in which ...
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  • of icons in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian tradition. The term is ... 1982), 60-72. all specialists in Christian religious art—the main ...
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  • blues, R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She is represented in the ... .jpg|thumb|400px|Tina Turner with European music entrepreneur Veljko Despot ...
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  • According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ... ” are the equivalent of archangels in Christian theology. Some interpreters ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... or old festival music. Contemporary Christian music uses idioms from various ...
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  • In addition, Pan was later known for his music, which was capable of arousing ... Myths involving Pan frequently contain music. One of the famous myths ...
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  • this time that Coltrane began playing music and practicing obsessively. ... quot; by this point, and that the music from the 1946 sessions had ...
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  • with the direction the band's music was taking and his own diminished ... (Horns), Al Garth (sax, violin), Christian Mostert (sax), and Greg ...
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  • as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. ... and a Jew-boy to revive the greatest Christian music for the world." ...
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  • Most Spiritualists were content to attend Christian churches. Unitarian and ... the appeal of religious movements such as Christian Science. It was at this ...
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  • Hindustani Classical Music is a North Indian classical music tradition ... The forms of Hindustani classical music were designed primarily for ...
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  • The author appealed mainly to Middle class white Christian women in ... of the Southern United States as being un-Christian and as emphasizing the ...
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  • Zoroaster, astronomy, history, geography, music and other subjects. Much ... that Plato was more consistent with Christian doctrine than was Aristotle ...
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  • Early Christian examples show much similarity to antique models in ... By the fourth century, Christian relief work of considerable quality ...
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  • As with most Christianized peoples, Christian Igbos incorporated many ... The Igbo have a rhythm of music which consists of drums , flute, Ogene ...
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  • vague monotheism. The most prominent Arab Christian kingdoms were the Ghassanid ... A vital aspect in the Arab life is music. Nomadic encampments in ancient ...
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  • works of theology and towards the pre-Christian eras of Imperial Rome and ... a stance which was in tension with the Christian view of man as the original ...
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  • that human aesthetic experience in music and art is closed tied to ... of the universe is more naturalistic than Christian concept of Creation. ...
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  • The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that ... and so were the members or the primitive Christian church. The modern-day ...
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  • during the first three centuries of the Christian era, was posttribulational ... an important component in fundamentalist Christian eschatology today, which ...
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  • " and "Rock & Roll Music"—among its "500 ... allowed him to pursue his interest in music from an early age, and he ...
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  • of Discipleship have become classics of Christian literature, criticizing ... enthralled with the power of Black Gospel music and amassed a substantial ...
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  • |religions = Christian, African Traditional Religion |related = Bantu ... were used for communication, and their music has become popular worldwide ...
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  • Over the years, the Alhambra has had widespread influence on art, ... The Alhambra resembles many medieval Christian strongholds in its ...
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  • Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... in China and Greece) held to the idea that music, mathematics and science ...
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  • manuscript illumination, letters, and music, as well as their devotional ... all of which were originally notated with music. Two songs survive with music ...
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  • found their expression in an outpouring of music, dance and lyric poems. Rumi ... modernist translation" Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 15(1) ...
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  • being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical ... from serving the specific purposes of new music as well as the larger purposes ...
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  • of the Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian document. ==Etymology== ... to Jupiter Capitolinus and Mars. In the Christian era, Oxyrhynchus was the ...
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  • In Christian tradition, Saint Paul frequently engaged in midrashic ... acting out of Bible stories), murals, masks, and music. ...
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  • Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed ... artists in the history of American popular music. ==Early life== ...
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  • and unembellished wooden puppets and music inspired by Czech folk songs. ... classic based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen featuring a nightingale ...
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  • indigenous plainchant traditions of the Christian West to become the official ... Unaccompanied singing has been part of the Christian liturgy since ...
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  • Western still-life genre was secondary to Christian religious subjects. Sumptuous ... art was mainly used as an adjunct to Christian religious subjects. This ...
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  • renewal in the areas of the clergy, Christian life, and Church administration ... of faith and saw love as the basis of Christian faith, not obligation or ...
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  • The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... of the harmonica came in 1821, when Christian Friederich Buschmann, son ...
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  • The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs ... in his contemporary terms of courtly Christian chivalry. Consequently ...
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  • of several traditions of classical Indian music, having received the title ... in the West for a long time. Also, the Christian missionaries, knowing that ...
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  • Johnson also performed other types of music. His repertoire included ... from Tommy's brother, LeDell, a Christian minister who likely considered ...
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  • effects (correspondence between words, colors and music). ... examples of virtuous behavior, and Christian sentiments, modernists ...
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  • Said was born in Jerusalem. His father was a wealthy Christian Palestinian ... Orchestra (of which Mr. Barenboim served as music director from 1991 to 2006 ...
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  • as the Tetrabiblos, and additional works on music, optics, and other subjects. ... equivalent or similar to what Jewish, Christian, or Muslim theologians ...
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  • Religious liberty is an unknown concept in Mauritania. Christian proselytism ... The music of Mauritania comes predominantly from the country's ...
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  • An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ... life, Kingsley committed himself to the Christian Socialist movement, alongside ...
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  • early June), 50 days after Passover. In Christian tradition, it is known ... and towns, they would be accompanied by music and parades. ...
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  • Rastafari are criticized, particularly by Christian groups, for taking ... either English or their native languages. Music drawn from the Rastafari ...
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  • engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing ... won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. ...
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  • in the 1950s, partly in reaction to Christian Dior's "New Look ... She was especially critical of Christian Dior's "New Look ...
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  • with a nearby settlement of indigenous Christian converts, formed the nucleus ... have been of the animist, Muslim, or Christian faith. However, during ...
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  • sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The style started around ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...
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  • His father Lin ZhiCheng (林至誠) was a Christian minister. His mother was ... he had a number of questions regarding Christian teachings: Jesus was said ...
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  • parades and festivals, Irish traditional music sessions (céilithe), and ... Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary ...
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  • novels of Albert Camus, and listened to Jazz music. ==Examples of counterculture ... cultural forms emerged, including the pop music of English band the Beatles ...
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  • Bloom was eager to sweep away the Christian Platonist layers that had ... were following a tradition that blended Christian theology with Plato. This ...
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  • signs" dates back to the pre-Christian era in Europe, when symbols ... the "hexing designs" in pre-Christian Europe intended to ward ...
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  • had been contributed by the various Christian states: 109 galleys and ... This fleet of the Christian alliance was manned by 12,920 sailors ...
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  • In terms of religion, the people are predominantly Christian, and ... of steel-band, calypso and reggae music, and in festivities, such ...
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  • Presley also recorded ballads, country music, and gospel. In a musical ... time, his blending of R&B and country music styles did much to break ...
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  • and supervised the promotion of Christian von Ehrenfels (founder ... Art, literature and music create circumstances that evoke emotions ...
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  • and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous output of more ... clergy in his native Austria. Unlike the music of J.S. Bach and the composers ...
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