Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- wrote for all economic levels so that his music could touch as many as possible ... producing such musicals as Sweet Adeline, Music In the Air, Three Sisters ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- and various forms of popular and folk music. Even these latter forms ... heritage, as well as its origins in western folk music. ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... up in a farming area, Ilaiyaraaja enjoyed Tamil folk music, ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- occasionally reminiscent of Italian folk music. More generally, his music ... produced some of the most wonderful guitar music ever played, including “Guitar ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- became deeply interested in American folk music; he traveled the country ... Frost, his impact on the development of a folk-centered, down-to-earth, uniquely ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- made it popular in Western pop and jazz music. == Description == ... music with koto, biwa and shamisen, folk music, jazz, and other modern pieces. ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- challenged and successfully mastered many music genres, including folk, country ... Darin was also an accomplished, award-winning actor and a music-business ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- composer. He is noted for his experimental music work (in particular his 1968 ... a number of themes within a framework of folk music from a variety of regions: ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- a common genre in Czech and Slovakian folk music. Polka is still a very ... countries, and among the Jewish Klezmer folk music ensembles, who play a wide ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- also the case in most forms of western folk music, where songs and dances ... #039;s volumes of Magyar and Romanian folk music), but also with sound recordings ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- smash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Outside of music, she had several memorable ... Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter ...8 KB (1,302 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ... Yodeling shows how intrinsic not only communication, but music and ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University ... music theory, poetry, literature, and folk music of the times, he never ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently, rock music. The origins of ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- - July 16, 2012) was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording ... Wells single-handedly changed the face of country music and controversially ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 23:17, 3 March 2023
- Danny Kortchmar. The two began playing folk music together. ... July 20, 1969, he performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Shortly thereafter ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... elements of native Cuban dance and folk music; score specifies usage ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 16:35, 20 May 2024
- Britten once wrote: “It is cruel, you know, that music should be ... day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- for ideas and inspiration, and much of his music "rose from mountains ... A quite different influence on Brahms was folk music. In his youth ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022