Search results for "Musical ensemble" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Barbershop music is a musical form originally developed by African ... different in sound from an ordinary musical chord. In order to understand ...
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  • and band leader. He worked in almost every musical genre and wrote music for ... Zappa's ability to coalesce eclectic and highly-varied musical ...
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  • Ives took an open-minded approach to musical theory, encouraging his ... and to a large degree continued the musical experimentation begun by ...
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  • himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy groups. He led the ... reputation as one of Germany’s emerging musical talents, he was considered ...
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  • singers. Sometimes, he would also provide musical accompaniment to silent ... Moten’s ensemble was a good "territory band," a term signifying ...
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  • term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or ... troops formed and toured. The first black musical-comedy troup, Hyers Sisters ...
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  • In his long career, there was scarcely a musical form that Stravinsky did ... written in a state of religious and musical ebullience." ...
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  • Yejong’s reign, with a gift of Chinese musical instruments from the Song ... always placed on the west side of any musical ensemble. There are twenty-seven ...
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  • humans can recognize their sounds as musical. Moreover, as music is intuitive ... is called a musician, a group being a musical ensemble such as a rock band ...
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  • quot; to the performance of a given musical work. George Szell was not ... make it a point to have him conduct the ensemble's least experienced ...
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  • concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument ... being apart from the accompanying ensemble. Instrumental soloists would ...
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  • giving both composers and musicians a new musical apparatus for performance. ... a baritone. Occasionally a band or jazz ensemble will perform a piece that ...
    17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
  • pieces fit this description, with some musical romanticism producing strong ... becoming more prevalent and as a result musical style underwent changes ...
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  • Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy's musical style began emerging in full in the 1890s under ...
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  • with Louis Horst, who would become her musical director and adviser. first drew upon to create a performing ensemble. Initially, her dance group ...
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  • In the 1950s and 1960, Diddley became a musical force with albums ... He worked as a carpenter and mechanic, but also began a musical career ...
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  • was influenced by the German post-Romantic musical techniques, including the ... this was the beginning of a new musical expression; with Mathilde ...
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  • to create an highly controversial musical project to bridge the gap ... The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra would serve as a training ensemble ...
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  • Boys Chorus. However, it was the latter ensemble that exposed him to challenging ... and delivered with a complete sense of musical purpose. He stayed with ...
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  • over the region and slowly infiltrated the musical traditions of the court. strictly percussion and oboe; the Sep Noi ensemble (or Mahori) may include ...
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