Search results for "Musical ensemble" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written ...
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  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... A woodwind choir, also called woodwind orchestra, or woodwind ensemble ...
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  • disposed of older and more traditional musical procedures to put forth ... Unlike many composers born into highly musical environments, his early ...
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  • and movements to create a moving musical ensemble, sometimes forming designs ... evolved a rich and varied tradition of musical styles and marching traditions ...
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  • be expected. Syncopation is used in many musical styles, including classical ... #The first one matches the musical one: stepping on (or otherwise ...
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  • melody is brought out very well within a chamber ensemble. ... of his own works); a favorite domestic musical form, with lots of transcriptions ...
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  • Johann. Known as the Lanner Quartet, this ensemble played mostly Viennese waltzes ... soon made director of a second smaller ensemble which was formed as a result ...
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  • relationships creating a set, in a given musical piece or section. These ... the drum corps is probably the only musical ensemble with all ranges of instrumentation ...
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  • a substantial output of works for chamber ensemble, two concertos for cello ... in St. Petersburg would damage Russian musical traditions. In the tirades ...
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  • rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical style later known as serialism. ... important in his life in shaping his own musical direction. After graduating ...
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  • as the director, Sousa transformed the ensemble into an band of the highest ... it quickly became the most prominent musical ensemble in the United States ...
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  • An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, consisting of string, brass ... In the history of Western musical tradition, the evolution of symphony ...
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  • released film featuring a recorded musical soundtrack. The Manhattan ... Symphony, and the City Symphony Chamber Ensemble and Brass Choir. ...
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  • Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano, musical director), Percy Heath ... it over decades. Thanks to the strong musical personality of its leader ...
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  • permanent or official members of a musical ensemble or band. They work behind ... A studio band is a musical ensemble employed by a recording studio ...
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  • notational systems. Frescobaldi offered musical rewards in the intrinsic ... * Mead, Ernest C. The instrumental ensemble canzonas of Girolamo Frescobaldi ...
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  • and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming (sometimes ... with forming the first modern taiko ensemble (kumi-daiko) in 1951, and ...
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  • acquainted the people of Mexico with their musical heritage. ... and led to the disbanding of the older ensemble. Throughout all this time ...
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  • music work (in particular his 1968 musical composition Sinfonia for ... and there he founded the Juilliard Ensemble, a group dedicated to performances ...
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  • A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... been the first means used to realize a musical idea in concrete form, virtually ...
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