Search results for "Chord (music)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... quot;/"areas" such as the Tristan chord. As tonal harmony ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- 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
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- which incorporated elements of blues and gospel music. ... opposed to the character of swing music, partly as a result of growing ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string) is three or more different notes that are played simultaneously, or near ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad ... asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- which was formerly used in classical music, utilizes 'sympathetic ... to the equivalent of an open major or minor chord in Western music theory. ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 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
- 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
- blues guitarist, who played a droning, one-chord type of blues distinct from ... became his trademark. Rhythmically, his music was primitive and relatively ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- 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
- to make a major mark in the folk and rock music scenes. His unique, virtuoso ... Gary became interested in music while still a small boy. At the age ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- The aeolian harp became popular again in twentieth century music with ... == Aeolian harps in music == [[Image:Aeolian harp in the old castle ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- an American composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ... typically found in chromatic harmonicas, chord harmonicas, and many octave ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid ... boundaries. Elvis Presley's rockabilly music was popular on northern radio ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
- Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- a few chords and had no formal training in music, but he possessed an exceptional ... * [http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/music/401/ Biography (www ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:39, 22 November 2023
- 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ... recapitulated in the final movement. His music is often contrapuntally complex ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... He particularly promoted contemporary music. He also continued to teach ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- was based not only on his popular music and acting skills, but because ... portable tape-recorders in the USSR, as his music became available to the wide ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 20:49, 3 May 2023
- regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions ... victim to a number of quacks. The only music he heard in his youthful ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the music of Tahiti was dominated ... replaced instead by genres of Christian music such as “himene tarava ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... salsa came to describe a specific style of music in the mid-1970s as New York ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... identified as a distinct genre of country music in the 1950s. Unlike country ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- most common string instruments in Western music are those in the violin, ... complex melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal music can be realized. The guitar ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- Somehow, Tatum’s music could also be compared to a black diamond ... innovative reharmonizations (changing the chord progressions supporting the ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 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
- from other songs is the fact that the music is far less important than ... Bards were rarely permitted to record their music, given the political nature ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- of a tonal center or atonality. This music which turned away from the ... in theosophy, and both would influence his music and musical thought. In 1909 ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- being dated to 1521. The Royal Academy of Music in London, has an instrument ... but the feeling that it overpowers the music has led to very few modern ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- figures in twentieth-century popular music. blues into soul and eventually, funk. His music would prove to have a profound ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- this time that Coltrane began playing music and practicing obsessively. ... quot; by this point, and that the music from the 1946 sessions had ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 04:46, 3 August 2022
- *In music theory, a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or ... *In Western classical music, the "curse of the ninth" refers ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- the style referred to as Impressionist music, a term which he dismissed ... and Javanese--Debussy sought a modern music that would convey emotions ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ... sessions and live performances; recording music for advertising, film, television ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- Faith in his later life and came to regard music, and particularly jazz, as ... Gillespie never forgot his exposure to music at the United Methodist and ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 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
- role in the racial integration of popular music as the first record label ... Records Group, itself a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ... only two basic positions for the tonic chord (music): E and A. However, they ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- 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
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- one of the most recognized Czech classical music composers, and many critics ... Smetana was a child prodigy who grew up in a family that cultivated ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
