Search results for "Dance music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- and Russian styles, but because of the dance-public's appreciation ... the conservatory included advanced piano, music theory, counterpoint, harmony ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... embraced this kind of electronic dance music with more enthusiasm than ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 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
- 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
- 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
- ) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in ... it out. It became popular as a secular dance form in the early part of ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- the mainstream and introduced electronic dance music to nightclubs. Electronic ... such has the popularity of electronic dance music grown). Some DJs such ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- of the most important French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era ... deciding that the study and composition of music was his true passion. He ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian ... Sacred Indian dance drama, such as Krishnattom and Ramanattom, emerged ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisureCategory:Performing arts ... Lion dance (s=舞狮|t=舞獅|p=wǔshī) is a form of traditional ...24 KB (3,959 words) - 00:19, 5 September 2023
- Hearing him play daring solos in the dance music environment of the early ... powerful and swinging sound. It was dance music in the best sense of the ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- 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
- Franciscan missionaries) relies upon song, music, and dancing, all performed ... Yaqui music is the music of the Yaqui tribe and people of Arizona ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Danse was to reestablish the perfection of dance. In the late seventeenth ... In 1672, the king gave the court's official music composer, Jean ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- at ease (Dickie’s Dream, Taxi War Dance, Panassié Stomp, Harvard ... * Wells, Dicky (as told to Stanley Dance). The Night People: The Jazz ...5 KB (863 words) - 03:26, 29 July 2022
- up worn by its performers. A rich blend of music, dance, mime, and spectacular ... meaning “sing” (歌); bu, signifying “dance” (舞); and ki, meaning ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:49, 14 May 2024
- the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented ... the Majestic Theater, she began to sing and dance along to the performers on ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 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
- 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
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- variety characteristic of earlier soul music; technically demanding, melodic ... The most prominent difference between funk and the soul music from ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined African ... of songs was especially popular with dance music, and some dances were ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional musics ... were more associated with the popular dance music at that time. ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio ... The Opry acted as the performing heart of the country music industry ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 20:33, 13 September 2021
- 1930s and early 40s, but retired from the music business for more than two ... Blind Lemon Jefferson, was emphatically dance music, often played on a resonator ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music." Bluegrass takes its ... sound," have come to typify bluegrass music. The roots of bluegrass can ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- wrestler does a traditional "Eagle Dance" (devekh), which has ... wrestler does the traditional "Eagle Dance" (devekh), based on ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 19:59, 9 November 2022
- incorporated into gymnastics, diving, and dance in the form of tumbling and ... with traveling circuses and the modern dance halls of Vaudeville. ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- Ballet is a highly stylized dance form that developed into a popular ... In Aristotle's "Poetics," dance was likened to drama ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- and percussion instruments, and the music usually incorporates a strong ... ranging from the traditional martial music of John Philip Sousa and ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 03:09, 6 November 2022
- and he pioneered the fusion of modern dance with classical ballet. ... Bashkiria. As a child, he was encouraged to dance in Bashkir folk performances ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- of Raja Ravi Varma, Theyyam and Kathakali dance movements, and Kalaripayattu ... magic, choreographed by Aparna Sindoor, the dance director of the film, uses ...14 KB (1,924 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- pioneer and pre-eminent African-American tap dance performer. ... as the chief instigator for getting tap dance literally "up on its ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 03:51, 1 October 2023
- with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville ... an inter-cultural bridge that brought his music to a wide audience and increased ...16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 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
- As tempo is identified as the basic pace or movement of the music ... as it is in classical. In electronic dance music, accurate knowledge of ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 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
- 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
- African dance occupies central place in cultures throughout the African ... African dance is connected to Africa’s rich musical traditions expressed ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- band was intimately linked to Swing music’s dance tradition, serving ... It has often been deplored that Webb’s music has not been adequately ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 15:18, 10 December 2023
- would become a million-seller, a perennial dance favorite, and is one of the ... member Rosalind Ashford retired from the music business. However, several ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- Paiute mystic who founded the Ghost Dance movement. He prophesied an ... Paiute music was generally performed by men for dance and harvest ...23 KB (3,614 words) - 06:17, 18 November 2022
- Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... and culture and he expressed this in his music. His legacy as Norway's ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- sound where there are no rests in the music. Primarily because of this ... on bagpipes, while based on traditional dance music originally played on bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 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
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... are extant, as is a melodic, syncopated dance music called sinawi. In Korea ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- culture. However, African survivals can be seen in music, dance, speech, worship, funeral practices, and many other aspects of life. The strongest influence ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the music of Tahiti was dominated ... Herman Melville celebrated one such dance (he called it the "lori ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... The dance music element of western pop music can be traced back to ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
