Search results for "Musical composition" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the ... institutions were reinstated and musical composition and performance revived ...
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  • from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical measured prose of which ... woven them into a romance of his own composition. He asserted that they ...
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  • Both of Wassily's parents were very musical. He also learned to play ... emotion. Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to designate his works: ...
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  • with the dance form by introducing Western musical instruments. He also reduced ... backed by musicians playing on traditional musical instruments. The actors ...
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  • an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other ... body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant ...
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  • popular over 150 years after their composition. Rather than exploit the ... years. He probably received some formal musical training from a German immigrant ...
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  • had a major record hit, his own novelty composition "Inka Dinka Doo, ... Rose's Jumbo (1962, based on the 1935 musical) and It's a Mad, Mad ...
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  • Dating from his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik ... du Nazaréen." His first musical hoax was published (announcing ...
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  • Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... vibration of the reed.Vermont University, Musical Instrument Classifications. ...
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  • father, whose opposition to his son's musical vocation had driven him ... the opera house. He was given lessons in composition by Giovanni Battista Sammartini ...
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  • function or the circumstances of their composition. Jewish and Christian ... to music; a sacred song accompanied with a musical instrument. ...
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  • and the cello, but also conducting and composition. Among his teachers were ... United States. He was banned from several musical ensembles in his homeland ...
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  • for the genre of opera, and expanded musical composition in format, quality ... Although he introduced no new musical forms, he expanded and enriched ...
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  • was not primarily a performer but a strong musical personality who expressed ... faithful for years, even decades. Many musical careers were almost entirely ...
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  • multiple melodies are woven into a singular musical expression. A significant way that Mozart would heighten the drama of a musical ...
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  • quot; "the theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition" and the "Parry ... poems?" Foley, The Theory of Oral Composition, Chapters 1 & 2The ...
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  • title track was the first of Browne's musical study of soul-searching ... and insightful lyrics, and a flair for composition rarely seen in the world ...
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  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... combinations differing for each composition. The change can be illustrated ...
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  • are possibly the most famous murders in musical history. ... was probably born in 1566. Gesualdo had a musical relationship with Pomponio ...
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  • on. Unlike Duke Ellington, whose strong musical personality commanded many ... his occasional solos reveal a sure musical instinct, allowing him to ...
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