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  • – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during ... were and that remain popular for their ease of singing and performing. Croce ...
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  • 1586) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle ... his goals and slowly expanded his world of relationships and issues. ...
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  • The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...
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  • Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad ... While most authorities stress the African roots of calypso, in his ...
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  • – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was ... He was born in Paris; however, biographical details of his life are ...
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  • In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... Music professor, David Brackett defines them as "short melodic ...
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  • Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin ... piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy ...
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  • is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family. It is related ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...
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  • Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers ... going to Venice from 1609-1613 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli. He ...
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  • an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians ... He used his extensive knowledge of counterpoint in composing toccatas ...
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  • as the most significant English composer of his time. Blow's dramatic ... in Nottinghamshire. He became a chorister of the Chapel Royal, and distinguished ...
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  • 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and ... In 1954, Snow influenced the directors of the Grand Ole Opry to allow ...
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  • A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... For example, the University of Virginia Library provides access to ...
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  • in the percussion family. It consists of wooden bars of various lengths ... Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ...
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  • 12, 1674) was an Italian composer and one of the most celebrated masters ... He made significant contributions to the advancement of dramatic musical ...
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  • composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost ... Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the ...
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  • in Moscow, Russia, which gives performances of ballet and opera. The theater ... ==Significance of the Name== The name comes from the Russian word, ...
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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...
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  • A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...
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