Search results for "Music, Popular" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the treatise Ars musicae ("The art of music") (ca. 1300), an attempt ... is devoted to liturgical and composed music. The rest is devoted to secular ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 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
- 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... but that were and that remain popular for their ease of singing ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras ... Hassler most likely studied music as a boy with his father, who was ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- have been attributed to him, though the music is lost, and attribution ... of the Marian antiphons, other sacred music in a more conservative manner ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 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
- 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
- " the "Caruso of Mountain Music," and the "Backwoods ... and The Precious Jewel. He later formed a music publishing venture with Chicago ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of ... teacher who contributed greatly to the music culture in Renaissance Europe ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- instruments, is probably the most popular. emphasis on communicating to others through music education, writings, and ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- 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
- 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian ... Snow was a popular star at the Opry, and had a long and successful ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 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
- #039;s (the Devil's) gelding. The music it makes draws all the forest ... traditional and "new age" kantele music are also available. ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 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
- – December 8, 1982) was one of the most popular American country and western ... in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted into the Nashville ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- 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
- best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late nineteenth and ... In his lifetime, however, Massenet was one of the most popular and ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... dividing 'serious' and 'popular' genres, the first ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
