Search results for "Middle Eastern music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Models were also developed in western and eastern Africa. ... The xylophone, which had been known in Europe since the Middle Ages ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern ... collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... and was known in India and throughout the Middle East and was widely used ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- in ancient Rome. At fairs during the Middle Ages, tumblers performed ... The court festivities of the European Middle Ages would often involve ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music which were used throughout ... === Mathematics and Music === Boethius wrote four textbooks on mathematics ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ... widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- in Babylonia. A rich tradition of cantorial music flourished in later centuries ... records until the Geonic period of the Middle Ages in Babylonia. However ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 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
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... or Occidental, and the furthest known Eastern extremity was "The ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- and history of non-Western (particularly, Middle-Eastern) cultures. even the most seemingly objective study of Eastern culture or history was biased ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- thought from the antiquity through the Middle Ages, beauty is a constitutive ... that aesthetic experiences in arts such as music are closely tied to mathematical ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Among Christians, Lent (known as "Great Lent" in Eastern ... Lent is also a season of grief, known to Eastern Orthodox as the season of ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- performance, or for rehearsing a cappella music. While Eastern Orthodox churches ... participates such as hymns and service music, choirs still sing the full ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 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
- 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
- or simply The Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary epic which ... the original versions from traditional, Middle Eastern culture, they nonetheless ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert ... large numbers of Bedouin throughout the Middle East started to leave the ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- The Arab world should not be confused with the term "Middle East ... Jews and Christians throughout the Middle East. However, though Arab ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- 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
