Search results for "Dance music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- as well as the creative arts, particularly music. Gandharvas also have symbolic ... other special events to create beautiful music for the gods while the Apsaras ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- Center in New York City and The Los Angeles Music Center, and is a major tour ... and the performing arts, including dance, music, theater, opera, film ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- elevated the waltz from a lowly peasant dance to sparkling entertainment ... Joachim Hoffmann, who owned a private music school. His talents were ...18 KB (2,468 words) - 14:59, 1 August 2022
- life, she made a habit of advocating for dance, writing about it and serving ... modestly dressed, entirely absorbed in dance and totally unreceptive to ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 03:56, 18 April 2024
- engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing ... a major hit in 1983 with "Let's Dance," which went to number ...30 KB (4,767 words) - 07:53, 28 January 2024
- in a new musical style called "dance band music." He and ... #039;s brand of swing shifted popular music away from the "hot" ...15 KB (2,226 words) - 17:37, 23 May 2024
- also studied composition and began to write music. counterpoint, thus becoming the only formal music teacher Schoenberg would have. ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- performance venue after a short stint as a dance hall during World War II ... is perfect for chamber opera, experimental dance, or education activities ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- revived in the U.S. in the American folk music traditions. Some rock bands ... an instrument that was associated with folk music and buskers. ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- .Willi Apel, (ed.), Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press ... For early classical music, the clarinets and/or flutes may be omitted ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ... a fundamental relationship with all other music in the world…. A composer ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 10:02, 25 June 2024
- up hearing traditional Mexican mariachi music as well as flamenco guitar; ... Ritchie was already engaged in creating music of his own, even creating ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- One of the most popular stars of the French dance halls in the 1920s and 1930s ... Along. Initially deemed too dark-skinned to dance in the chorus line, she nevertheless ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- instrument used in Indian classical music. He became famous not only ... Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West (Continuum, 2006 ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- he began to concentrate more seriously on music. Balakirev encouraged him ... the chance to study Russian Orthodox church music. He worked there until 1894 ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- order to achieve spiritual goals. He used music, literature, and dance to ... personal limitations. He tried to use music, literature, and dance to ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- helped to elevate jazz from a popular music to a fully developed art form. between soloists and the orchestra set his music apart. Ellington was a consummate ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- that study the way cultures utilize music). A didgeridoo is usually ... Berndt in Arnhem Land. In 1953, the Tribal Music of Australia record, the ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early ... the mainstream and introduced electronic dance music to nightclubs. ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- local singer, mandolin player, and square dance caller. He also learned to ... that he was going to pursue a living in music. With his father's blessing ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
