Search results for "Modern music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was ... the famous mathematician, philosopher and music theorist Nicole Oresme. De ...5 KB (748 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ... the chromatic scale became the basis of modern music written using the twelve ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... (710-794), and settled into the basic modern divisions during the Heian ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... from a piece of alder, pine or spruce. Modern instruments have metal strings ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces ... Music of the Spheres is cited in old scriptures, and the Greek philosopher ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ... the first exponents of Mexican nationalist music with ballets on Aztec themes. ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- the early madrigals of the Renaissance. As music historian Richard Taruskin ... * Moore, Douglas. From madrigals to modern music: a guide to musical ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 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
- The Modern Jazz Quartet (also known as the MJQ) was established in ... The MJQ is the most perfect example of chamber music jazz. Composed ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- 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
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... Virginia Library provides access to an online music collection. ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- 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
- master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- and inspired related movements in music and literature. In cubist ... In 1913 the United States was exposed to Cubism and modern European ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... it is the same as the rule by which in modern music a quarter-note may equal ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- in wonderfully realized arrangements of music from cultures that might ... In a Nutshell is the first by a classical music professional in the Western ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... composed using the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- 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
- 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
