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