Search results for "European music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ... He also sought to bring contemporary European music to his homeland, specifically ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but it ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... to fuse Hungarian folk music with the European music tradition. Due to the ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- was an Argentinian master composer of European classical music as well ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... first to introduce American themes into European classical music, the first ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, ... In 1913 the United States was exposed to Cubism and modern European ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ... Still was very much of the attitude that "inspired" music ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... the more conservative traditions in European music of his time. He had little ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... and a tremendous contribution to dramatic music; the further development ...7 KB (995 words) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
- occasionally reminiscent of Italian folk music. More generally, his music ... produced some of the most wonderful guitar music ever played, including “Guitar ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600, and encompassing works such as new pedagogy ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- in present-day Bratislava, Slovakia. His music reflects the transition from ... Hummel, the expressiveness of his piano music showed the attributes of ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... from the regular, straight beats of European music. ===The African ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ... The song was a danzón, descended from European social dances like the English ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- these horns were used in the liturgical music tradition at the Temple of ... akin to today's automobile horn). European predecessors and relatives ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... Italian Opera which had dominated the European music scene since the eighteenth ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- century American composer of classical music who was best known for his ... physical nurturing components that makes my music sound as it does, is that ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... an instrument that was associated with folk music and buskers. ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- both in English and in other languages. European poets such as the Symbolists ... do a good job."T.S. Eliot, "The Music of Poetry," 1942. Likewise ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... of Paris. Eventually he found the European music scene too supercilious ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- conductor. He was the second of only six music directors of the renowned ... leading promoter of contemporary classical music such as that of Béla Bartók ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... Edward W. Guo, known as Feldmahler, an 18-year-old Canadian music ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- Russian composer, as well as an influential music teacher. His music linked ... Glazunov was born in St Petersburg. He studied music privately under ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. Having trained ... its culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship. In 1784, with ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated ... quot;rumba rhythm" was popular in European music beginning in the 1500s ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- from polka, waltzes and other European music. Later periods saw considerable ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- to introduce Newtonian ideas to the European public. He also published ... lively intelligence made an impression in European intellectual circles. Voltaire ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... age of nineteen, and to this he owed his European reputation. From Paris, ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- his later career was largely devoted to gospel music. After serving ... records. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990. He ...12 KB (1,774 words) - 06:08, 27 February 2023
- . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- artist, has had a major impact on the music business. A Grammy Award ... Beginning his career as a gospel music artist and preacher, after ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key ... Taylor (Radano 1993, 108-109), have written music that is described as atonal ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- the most important field collectors of folk music of the twentieth century ... movement. Lomax's research into folk music roots, systematized in a ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... injured Leo Ornstein, playing Chopin on a European tour. His recitals often ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written to be performed ... one of the most important forms in chamber music, and most major composers ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- 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
- of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... with the can-can, a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- 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
- Pictures). His passion for ancient Italian music led to an interest in musicology ... his personal artistic quest to create music that he hoped would speak ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- Tharp's work encompasses choreography with classical music, jazz ... Times They Are a-Changin, which places the music of Bob Dylan in the context ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He ... meeting important contributors to American music, promoting his vision of ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... In an era when African-American music was known largely through demeaning ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Caribbean islands is rooted in simplistic European stereotypes, and that the ... local fusion between African and European music. It functions as a medium ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... Old-time music has its foundations in the family which helps to generate ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- Although he resisted recording his music until near the end of his ... Portuguese refugees. When he started his music education playing the violin ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. Henderson’s music marks the transition from New Orleans jazz, with ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... popular as parlor instruments for classical music, while German concertinas ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- 18, 1767, and is considered the first European visitor to the island. ... was 121,500. After Cook's visit, European ships landed on the island ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ... metronome to indicate specific tempi in his music. Prior to that time tempo ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- through his literary works, liturgical music, and hymns that living for ... and transformed the role of piety in European daily life. ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- :Make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound ... The shofar is played much like a European brass instrument, with the ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval ... and virelai), which dominated secular European music of the fourteenth and ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 03:20, 25 February 2023
- 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... the church's firm stand against blues music and the sinful lifestyle ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- actually the precursor for the Northern European mermaids, half-women and ... happening, drew his lyre and played his own music, which was powerful enough ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music. His piano, chamber music ... as "a piece for orchestra without music." Still, upon closer ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- an oboist play a concert A (A440). Some European orchestras tune to a slightly ... With the resurgence of interest in early music in the mid-twentieth century ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- playing with Jack Hylton and other European bands that were far inferior ... whatever their status in the world of music. In Europe, they were not ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- be seen as an apotheosis of instrumental music. As European composers sought ... This can especially be the case in music composed in the twentieth ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- traditions. It has often been set to music, although the most famous ... The Hail Mary or Ave Maria in Latin has been set to music numerous ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- of bulls. The court festivities of the European Middle Ages would often ... developed along similar lines as European acrobatics did during the ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... that ended the corps's existence. European rulers saw the advantage ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- 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
- Hokusai incorporated European elements such as landscape perspective ... and Sumiyoshi Naiki, and studied the European copper-plate engravings ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 00:06, 25 August 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 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
- family; his father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher ... art; the connection between visual art and music; the spiritual and symbolic ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- by works of high culture, including books, music, and paintings. ... into a dark-colored melancholy around European symbolism." Given his ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... and organ as a child, taught largely by the music director of his Baptist church ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s ... Disco was also important in the development of Hip-Hop music, as well ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- Lead singer John Fogerty retreated from music in the late 1980s but ... stint. After some eight years of making music together, the group became ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- centuries, which greatly changed Javanese music, was the creation of specific ... the court ritual when in the presence of European guests. ...12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- grammar, logic, mathematics, astronomy, music, and geometry more than the ... upon if the student is involved with music or athletic programs) school ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- During this time Cooper also pursued music, writing various songs ... France, and Germany, removing all European influence in 1934. ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples ... engraving, painting, body ornamentation, music, and the painstaking decoration ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
- Aristotle had maintained over Western European thought for eight centuries ... Aristotle had exercised over Western European thought for eight centuries ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- * In music and acoustics, the frequency of the standard pitch A above ... and B—that is, a minor third above the European frequency). The frequency ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- book's front cover) are EAN-13 (European Article Number 13; barcodes ... ===International Standard Music Number=== The International Standard ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Since the Renaissance period in European music, much music which is ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- branch of the Symbolist movement in European art, and was mostly known ... Baudelaire and Verlaine, while the subtle music, ominous allusions, arcane ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 15:49, 1 June 2023
- regarded as the grandfathers of the jam band music style. for their dedication to the band's music. Some followed the band from ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- The term medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages. This period contains compositions written by kings (Roy Henry ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- world. The Paris Opéra Ballet dominated European ballet throughout the eighteenth ... In 1672, the king gave the court's official music composer, Jean ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... Johann Buschmann, registered the first European patent for a free-reeded ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- one of the most recognized Czech classical music composers, and many critics ... had unimpeded contact with mainstream European music. They chose national ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- tone of a viola, particularly in orchestral music, can have unintended consequences ... which allow a greater playing range. Modern music is played on these instruments ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- human spirit and to enrich the culture of music in America. major recognition as a composer of concert music. The Boston Symphony Orchestra ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- Nordau was an example of a fully assimilated and acculturated European ... "degenerate" (entartete) art and music: see degenerate art. ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- National libraries of Europe participate in The European Library. ... materials; films; 4.8 million maps; sheet music; 2.7 million sound recordings; ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2023
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because ... plots than with the caliber of the music. Topical satire is a feature ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... there was an increasing interest in Western music, and attempts to adapt both ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- and the Victoires de la Musique for music. In cinema, it is the French ... * Best Music Written for a Film * Best Production Design ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- albeit notorious figures in American folk music. After spending time in and ... The topics of Lead Belly's music were equally wide ranging, including ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 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
- popularity in the early days of recorded music, as their sound could more ... Bass clef music for tuba is usually in concert pitch. However, traditional ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... being more specifically applied to chamber music genres with either a solo ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- Metastasio's lyrics were set to music by virtually every major ... #039;s legacy may lie more in the realm of music than in literature. Although ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- ==Castrati in the European Classical tradition== court chapel at Munich by 1574, where the music director was Heinrich Schütz ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments ... being dated to 1521. The Royal Academy of Music in London, has an instrument ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... to subordinate all earthy things, including music, to the ultimate goal of ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- " According to the American Academy of Music, the horn is considered, ... through the sounds and meanings of music and sound. [[Image:Range frenchhorn ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland ... but grew up in Vienna. He began his formal music training as a pianist, studying ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- quot;]. In Deane L. Root (ed.). Grove Music Online Oxford Music Online ... century, such cymbals were used in European music, and more commonly played ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often ... His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- which developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of classical Latin ... Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual and cultural movement ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- effect and in authentic performances of Baroque music. the same piece, to suit the nature of the music. However, choice of sticks ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- blues, R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She is represented in the ... 1985..jpg|thumb|400px|Tina Turner with European music entrepreneur Veljko Despot ...23 KB (3,629 words) - 22:06, 21 December 2023
- the style referred to as Impressionist music, a term which he dismissed ... a new concept of tonality in European music, exemplified by the frequent ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- The Ossian cycle would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ... to bring about the romantic movement in European, and especially in German ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- Ilse Moritzen. William’s father taught music, and was a member, and later ... England, Herschel managed to find work as a music teacher and bandleader. Herschel ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- he derided as having become "too European." Williams' late ... he ultimately rejected as being "too European." This break came on ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording career spanned ... by fans as a staple in the realm of popular music, and in the music community ...16 KB (2,532 words) - 23:52, 24 August 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
- era, a central figure in the history of European dance. Despite the fact ... quot;All that romantic poetry, painting and music could express, Taglioni could ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- before finding his first success as a music critic in the Star newspaper ... had found an appreciative audience on the European Continent. ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 07:04, 18 April 2024
- a treaty of friendship in 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan ... commercial center, Nuku'alofa, where European and indigenous cultural ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- the largest movements in secular medieval music. They were the first poets ... " the unity of image and idea with the music of the words. Although this ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- York Dada lacked the disillusionment of European Dada and was instead driven ... ==Poetry, music and sound== Dada was not confined to the visual and ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer ... the West for his "other" life in music. As a boy in Vilnius he received ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- and stepfather, encouraged his interest in music and supported his desire ... David Browne, Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 04:32, 31 July 2022
- RCA Victor agreed that Horowitz's European produced recordings would ... at the top of Billboard's Classical music charts for over a year. His ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theater of late nineteenth–century ... was Petipa's The Magic Pills, to the music of Léon Minkus. Petipa& ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- Mexican culture, especially in its music and regional dancing. Examples ... also emphasize Mexican cuisine, culture and music. For example, some Canadian ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist ... piano prodigy, and he later studied at the Music and Drama Conservatory of ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- a new musical style called "dance band music." He and several classmates ... #039;s brand of swing shifted popular music away from the "hot" ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- 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
- I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ... a fundamental relationship with all other music in the world…. A composer ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- is one of the most innovational European musicians of the twentieth ... Manouches, Reinhardt developed a taste for music early on under the influence ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... As bagpipes became entrenched in European culture, their presence ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- to have been a defining force in soul music—especially "Southern ... Because Jones was studying music full time, Stax writer/producer Isaac ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 19:23, 20 November 2023
- wildly popular and Petrarch emerged as a European celebrity. The poem was ... one of the most important forms in all of European poetry, and for good reason: ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. of water-color painting and several European languages. This overabundance ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Of these many are rare or obsolete, and music written for them is usually ... varies greatly with the musician, the music, the style of clarinet, the ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- instrument used in Indian classical music. He became famous not only ... Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West (Continuum, 2006 ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- === European settlement === [[File:Spanish capture of St Kitts.jpg ... The next European encounter occurred in 1607 when Captain John Smith ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- main skills would have been oral (poetry, music, comedy, and storytelling). ... In the nineteenth century, variety and music hall theaters became ...19 KB (3,015 words) - 21:04, 4 October 2022
- the same status as those situated on the European mainland. ... of the population—often approaching European standards—whereas minority ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- ==French and northern European faïence== [[Image:Eulenpokal-Stadt ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 111422631 ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
- Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. ... painting, sculpture, architecture, music...this century appears to ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- along the coast and inland. Trade with European states flourished after ... Fante states along the coast. Trade with European states flourished after ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- to making a meaningful contribution to the music and societal world. ... nevertheless, to indulge his fondness for music, and at an early age learnt ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- ago, coming from Tonga and Samoa. Before European contact, there was frequent ... of Nui but was unable to land. Further European explorers reached the area ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- in the national awakening of many Central European peoples lacking their own ... In general, the term “Romanticism” applied to music has come to ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- the most influential guitar players in rock music history. ... & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. His ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- produced by striking metal bars. In blues music, the harmonica is often casually ... While the angle and bow harps held popularity elsewhere, European ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- On his music, during an interview, Bud said, "I wish it had been ... is only a term that they stuck onto his music. Bird was playing the blues ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- the wishes of his family in order to pursue music. He studied music in Paris ... skillful employment of Romantic features in music, such as orchestral innovations ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
- represents a native art form. Gamelan music is built up in layers, with ... only obvious Indian influence in gamelan music is in the Javanese style ...37 KB (5,930 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- In addition, Pan was later known for his music, which was capable of arousing ... The theonym pan is of Indo-European derivation, following from the ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- was himself a composer of lieder and choral music, of symphonic poems and other ... priesthood rather than pursue a career in music. He once wrote his mother ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- title in 1926 and also won the European 175-pound title and German ... rebounded as a fighter by winning the European Heavyweight Title. ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- particularly true in the work of Northern European artists, whose fascination ... With the rise of the European Academies, most notably the Académie ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- to the Mi'kmaq people when the first European explorers arrived in the ... been joined by tourism, technology, film, music, and finance. ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- In 1498, Vasco da Gama became the first known European to reach the ... In 1859, Albert Roscher of Hamburg became the first European to land ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- outnumbering Ashkenazi Jews, or European Jews, but relatively few ... akin to the role Latin has in Western European languages. During the Middle ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- value. According to Said, the history of European colonial rule and political ... lay, and these were areas that came under European control only for a relatively ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- Whiteman, as the host of NBC's Kraft Music Hall, a weekly radio program ... before American troops fighting in the European Theater. He also learned ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- through performances of acting, music, and sports, along with light ... earliest printed mass-medium was probably European popular prints from about ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- court. Xu was greatly interested in the European technology, geography, astronomy ... was effective until the Manchu learned European iron-smelting technology ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued ... Soon, he wrote surrealistic poetry and music.Mel Gussow, [http://www.nytimes ...32 KB (4,975 words) - 16:49, 21 November 2022
- commonly of the hips, used to punctuate the music or accent a beat. Lifts or ... melodic lines and lyrical sections in the music, or modulated to express ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- for medieval, modern, and contemporary European literature in the world. ... and which would collaborate with other European libraries. In July 1989 ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- 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 ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- century, as well as a highly regarded music critic. An intellectual and ... Romantic composers of the central European music tradition. As with many ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- 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 ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- translations of great contemporary European literature, at that time ... exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- parts of the musical and film The Sound of Music. Salzburg is also a student ... Salzburg Airport has scheduled flights to European cities such as ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- The European Tenpin Bowling Federation is a governing organization ... The European Bowling Tour (EBT) is similar to the PBA and, along with ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- style," of "from Rome." European medieval vernacular tales ... late eighteenth-century Western Europe. In music, the romantic movement was ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- became virtually extinct not long after European settlers and African slaves ... the indigenous populations declined. European and African diseases, malnutrition ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of ... of the synthesizer as an integral part of popular music. ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- historically informed performances of early music, but also because of its ... in Italian, the language used in writing music, whereas the instrument we ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- Suction type organs were mainly built in the United States, but European ... and composers were looking for, and the music of Beethoven and Berlioz ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- of volumes, Watkins also translated European verse into English and eventually ... Watkins also translated European verse into English, including ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- As in other Polynesian islands, the Cook Islands' pre-European ... Imene tuki and imene metua are forms of unaccompanied vocal music ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- exposed to the work of several important European artists, including the Japanese ... her choreographic innovations was "music visualization," a style ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Johnson also performed other types of music. His repertoire included ... (A similar legend even surrounded the European violinist Niccolò Paganini ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- from military models. Changes in the European male silhouette were galvanized ... Culture Society: Art, Fashion, and Popular Music (Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0415137500 ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- declined to join Denmark in entering the European Community (now European ... language, their own sagas, their own dances, music and customs. ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music bands. They are played by ... desire to express and evoke emotion through music. Today, adding its unique ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- of the world's most renowned classical music composers, known for his ... which spurred complaints that his music was either too Russian or ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- website. Individual collections are: European Art, Contemporary Art, Photography ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure ...7 KB (1,002 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- #039;s reputation for being among other European cities with the highest ... Airport offers connections to a number of European cities, and handled 689 ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- wares, allowed him dominate the entire European and English pottery market ... Wedgwood’s enormous and diverse accomplishments dominated the European ...13 KB (1,954 words) - 19:59, 7 September 2022
- whom inhabited the island at the time of European discovery. Giovanni Caboto ... communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition. From 1763 ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- is equivalent to NUTS-II regions in the European Union and is used by the ... rather low in comparison to other Eastern European capital cities. Petty crime ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken ... Some of the best-loved musicals, such as Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- effects (correspondence between words, colors and music). ... The concept of "art for art's sake" was a European ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- into the twentieth century when the European trains and trucks took over ... Traditional Tuareg music has two major components: the single-string ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas ... European infectious diseases (smallpox, influenza, measles, and typhus ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- The first European version of Arabian Nights from an earlier compilation ... such as are least in contact with European influence,) may account ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- with an armful of branches, and a lost European explorer, who asked him ... a primary relay point for distribution of European goods further inland, notably ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- revered—Opera houses on the European continent. The facade, foyer ... language, with international soloists. Past music directors include Karl Rankl ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ... manufactured without paying copyright fees (music from CDs or movies on DVDs ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- freedom. The Romani language and Roma music were banned from public performance ... support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin." Nature (2003 ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- its multicultural heritage as well as its music and cuisine and is considered ... were technologically comparable to the European Copper Age. ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late ... Prix, 1969; Austrian State Prize for European Literature, 1970; Jerusalem ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- Rabbits tend to represent fertility. European Celts held rabbits to be ... following a pattern established by jazz music and rhythm and blues, where ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- ===Slavery and European contact=== [[Image:ManillaOkhapos.JPG|thumb ... smaller West African states that drew on European trading contacts to survive ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- creatures as the Greek Sirens or the European Mermaids; however, more ... human victims to join them through song or music, luring them into the water ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and even pop music. Her vocal style is characterized ... rhythm. She was able to go beyond ordinary music-making to relate to a greater ...29 KB (4,661 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the figures ... quot; may also derive from the Indo-European root men, from which the ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing ... to more classical orchestral and sacred music, always interweaving his ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ... the middle and higher classes. Flamenco music also slipped in and out of ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- He was also the first player to win European Footballer of the Year award ... In 1956, Matthews won the first-ever European Footballer of the Year ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 19:52, 9 February 2023
- the Renaissance. He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume ... As a master of Renaissance music, des Prez became known internationally ...26 KB (3,990 words) - 01:31, 8 September 2022
- world heavyweight champion and the first European to defeat an American for ... national hero, and when he went on a European exhibition tour after that ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- importance to later Islamic and European science. The first was the ... Ptolemy also wrote an influential work, Harmonics, on music theory ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- helped to elevate jazz from a popular music to a fully developed art form. between soloists and the orchestra set his music apart. Ellington was a consummate ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- especially in the early-adopting classical music and audiophile communities ... to any data file. From its origins as a music format, Compact Disc has ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- 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 ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value ... hidden from her son, feeling that black music was not sufficiently genteel ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- – July 1, 1958) was a notable central European dance artist and theorist ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- Louis XVI in the 1700s and of the other European aristocracy of England, ... follow the rhythmic pattern present in the music. Some knowledge of step patterns ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- Christianity was the dominant feature in shaping modern European and ... [[Image:LA2-NSRW-2-0065-sm.jpg|thumb|left| European high fashion from ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- The Dominican Republic is the site of the first permanent European ... for at least 5,000 years prior to the European arrival in the Americas ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- instrument in the world for spontaneous music and formal compositions ranging ... Often when playing certain types of music on the violin, notably folk ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- samizdat press, and later was set to music, together with four other ... the United States, teaching Russian and European poetry and the history of ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- Documents Reader. (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1998) ... * Music for Prague 1968 by Czech-born composer Karel Husa is a programme ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- Cinderella, which won the Golden Bear for a Music Film, also won the audience award. ... The 1978 festival also saw the start of the European Film Market. ...34 KB (4,808 words) - 11:03, 28 September 2023
- Enlightenment differed from its Western European counterpart in that it promoted ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- the first written description of surfing by a European. ... Surfing continued to decline steadily as European influence continued ...15 KB (2,531 words) - 23:54, 26 February 2023
- wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best ... were undeniably present in parts of the music. Appreciation of such melodies ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- as making no progress. It fell to seven European countries to band together ... slated as the natural progression of the European/South American Cup to include ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- arts library, and top class dance and music training facilities. ... listed here in alphabetical order: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- from Palermo. The Crusades led to some European contact with classical learning ... a series of catastrophes that caused the European economy to go into recession ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- of Albrecht Dürer, late medieval European painting, and Japanese Ukiyo ... * Music I (1895) * Love (1895) * Sculpture (1896) * Tragedy (1897) ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- 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
- In European history, well-known armor types include the lorica segmentata ... later through the 1500 and 1600s in all European countries. Heavy cawere ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- Quernest (1842–1893), was interested in music and literature. A precociously ... * Smith, Horatio (ed.). Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- Italy and won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, where he studied ... Toscanini was often criticized for neglecting American music; however ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
