| Electronic Music |
Electronic music
is any music whose primary sound - sources are
either electronically generated
or electronically
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| English Music |
English music has
followed an often idiosyncratic, stop-and-go course
of development. Fertile periods
of native |
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| Folk Music |
The concept of
folk music, though generally understood by most
people, has no simple, widely
accepted definition.
Narrowly |
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| French Music |
The term French
is used here in its broadest cultural sense to
include all geographical areas within the influence
of the French |
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| German and Austrian Music |
For the first thousand
years of the Christian era in the German-speaking
parts of Europe, musicians connected with
the church found |
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| Gospel Music |
The term gospel
music embraces several types of song, all of which
share an emotional, personal identification
with the biblical text |
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| Greek Music |
The musical culture
of ancient Greece is known more through literary
references than through preserved musical documents.
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| Hungarian Music |
At a crossroads
of east and west, Hungary developed a unique musical
life mixing Turkic and Magyar folk survivals with
Gypsy element |
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| Impressionism Music |
In music, the term
impressionism refers primarily to many of the
compositions of Claude DEBUSSY,
which achieved effects |
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| Indian Music |
Indian music encompasses
some of the richest, most remarkable musical traditions
of the world. India's musical history
begins in |
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| Italian Music |
Italy has played
a major role in the development of Western music.
Scholars can only speculate about what the music
of Roman |
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| Japanese Music |
The history of
Japanese music begins in the 8th century. Music
styles in Japan, like those of the West, have
changed frequently in the |
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| Jazz |
Jazz is the only
indigenous American musical form to have exerted
an influence on musical development throughout
the Western world. |
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| Latin American Music and
Dance |
The term Latin
American as used here encompasses the Americas
south of the United States, as well as the entire
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| Medieval Music |
The Middle Ages
in music is an immense period stretching from
the first years of the Christian era to
the early years of the 15th |
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| Meter Music |
Meter is the pattern
of regular time units (beats) employed for measuring
music. In a score meter is indicated by
time signatures |
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| Newage Music |
New Age music is
a term applied to the works of various composers
and musicians who strive to create soothing
audio environments |
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| Program Music |
Program music is
often confused with descriptive music, which attempts
to imitate natural sounds such as those
of waves, rain, |
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| Rap Music |
Rap music is a
combination of rhymed lyrics spoken over rhythm
tracks and pieces of recorded music
and sounds called samples, |
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| Renaissance Music |
Because music is
an abstract art, the effect of Renaissance humanism
on music between about 1420 to 1600 differs from
its influence |
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