Search results for "Music composition" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • a theoretical work entitled Poetics of Music in which he famously claimed ... Though Stravinsky once asserted that music was essentially powerless ...
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  • suffering two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the ... wrote primarily in the romantic music idiom, drawing heavily on ...
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  • for ideas and inspiration, and much of his music "rose from mountains ... Germany. His father, who gave him his first music lessons, was a double bassist ...
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  • be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon ... styles more common to the time of their actual composition. ...
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  • seemed to Kandinsky to push the limits of music and melody beyond standard ... The influence of music played an important role in the birth of abstract ...
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  • today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland ... studying piano, Szell was schooled in music composition by Eusebius Mandyczewski ...
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  • rock and roll, fusion, modern gospel music, and contemporary country ... electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing music with his January 1935 Decca ...
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  • composer and lutist of the late Renaissance music as well as a nobleman and ... He had a single-minded devotion to music from an early age, and showed ...
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  • visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in ... this light and send it through the whole composition. It is currently housed ...
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  • Marie describes the impetus for her composition of the lais. In the prologue ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...
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  • to making a meaningful contribution to the music and societal world. ... nevertheless, to indulge his fondness for music, and at an early age learnt ...
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  • songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording career spanned ... by fans as a staple in the realm of popular music, and in the music community ...
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  • such as that is low in oxygen. The chemical composition and especially the structure vary strongly between the precursor and the sintered product. ...
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  • at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music where he studied singing ... 1907 he presented five concerts of Russian music in Paris, and in 1908 mounted ...
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  • later stated that he studied harmony and composition for two years at Washburn ... whatever their status in the world of music. In Europe, they were not ...
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  • during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued ... Soon, he wrote surrealistic poetry and music.Mel Gussow, [http://www.nytimes ...
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  • As such it can bring a great many modes of music together. It is an instrument ... is that much of the most widely admired music for piano—for example, ...
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  • in various refined activities including music and "pure conversation." ... a symbolic influence on Chinese poetry, music, art, and culture. Their ...
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  • quot; (since 2002), which holds annual composition contests. ... and the first centuries B.C.E. saw the composition and redaction of the two ...
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  • , known as the "father of American music," was the preeminent ... young boy, Stephen evinced more interest in music than in other subjects. As ...
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