Search results for "Music composition" - New World Encyclopedia
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- was an American composer, inspiring composition teacher, and oboist. of Illinois, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Western Reserve University ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- melody, a movement, as well as an entire composition in differentiation to ... for several years before turning to composition, beginning with his first ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- it is said that Reger helped to push German music into the twentieth century ... until 1908, and professor of music composition at the Felix Mendelssohn ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 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
- the flute which has benefitted the world of music richly. ... Quantz also wrote trio sonatas and vocal music resulting from his interests ...4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 1 August 2022
- of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... law before deciding that the study and composition of music was his true ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- genres of English sacred and secular vocal music, John Blow's main contribution ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... some connection, probably as a director of music, with Santa Maria Formosa ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... chromatic scale became the basis of modern music written using the twelve ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition and/or performance in someone's honor, originally songs of courtship ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... was in Ferrara at the time. Gesualdo's music, which contained quick modifications ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- defined the beginning of the Baroque era in music. His duties at St. Mark's clearly included composition, for he ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- foundation in both western and non-western music. This foundation is due to ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- dated to after that time, so he may have ceased composition. ... Most of Taverner's music is vocal, and includes masses, Magnificats ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- 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
- 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 ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- smallpox), Landini became devoted to music early in life, and mastered ... prior to 1370. Evidence in some of his music also points to this: He dedicated ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- 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
- conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the ... the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- of the human voice. He felt that, through music, man would be able to create ... Porpora was born in Naples. He graduated from the music conservatory ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor ... he conducted a performance of his own composition 'Stabat Mater' ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as an educator ... singer of the pope’s chapel, taught him composition. His first major ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- which cemented his desire to pursue composition as a career. Once back ... him from continuing. He also studied composition with Vito Frazzi at the ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ... not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and ... to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... of World War I in 1914. His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell is the first ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- was a Flemish composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous composer ... court; nonetheless, he certainly knew his music, since his earliest mass ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 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
- 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
- a specifically Russian kind of art music. Gerald Abraham, Borodin: ... tribes. Adapted from Bordin's music, Kismet was produced on Broadway ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- iconic to fans of both country and pop music. Robbins scored numerous ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- 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
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 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
- harmonic and melodic language affected how music theory and composition were ... Saint-Saëns, who introduced him to the music of several contemporary composers ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- ) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around ... and Queen Sophie's (1557-1631) private music teacher at Elsinore, Denmark ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- 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
- new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... Antheil received formal instruction in composition. In 1922, Antheil was ...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 ... instruments, but also to a type of music composition. A composition for ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- techniques of different periods of music, such as the Baroque, Romantic ... He completed his graduate work in composition at the Moscow Conservatory ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- were often influenced by Armenian folk music. By synthesizing folk music ... In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- composer. He is noted for his experimental music work (in particular his 1968 ... injured hand, so instead concentrated on composition. In 1947 came the first ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... he and his brother Nikolai studied composition and theory with Siegfried ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He ... Franck); afterwards he went to study composition with Charles Widor at ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ... addressing the presentation of a musical composition. French composer Jean ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... the xylophone into Western classical music. Camille Saint-Saens first ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- stage to the delight of the audience. The music that he created made the ... in 1871. From 1878, he was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
