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Chamber Music
John Baron
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Chamber Music Introduction Chamber music is music for a small ensemble of solo instruments that is sophisticated and performed in an intimate s...
China
Joseph S.C. Lam
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
China Introduction Chinese music constitutes a tremendously complex and expansive phenomenon; like the renowned Yellow River of China, it flows...
Cold War Music
Peter Schmelz
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Cold War Music Introduction Contemporary music undeniably received attention during the Cold War—roughly the period between 1945 and 1991, fro...
Corelli, Arcangelo
Gregory Barnett
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Arcangelo Corelli Introduction Arcangelo Corelli (b. 1653–d. 1713) composed just six published opuses of instrumental music (trio sonatas, solo...
Counterpoint
Denis Collins
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Counterpoint Introduction Counterpoint is the combination of simultaneously sounding musical lines, each of which is of significance in itself...
Couperin, François
David Tunley
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
François Couperin Introduction François Couperin (b. 1688–d. 1733) was the most famous member of a French dynasty of musical Couperins stretch...
de Lassus, Orlande
Bernhold Schmid
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Orlande de Lassus Introduction Orlande de Lassus (b. 1532–d. 1594) is also known in modern writing as Orlando di Lasso and Roland de Lassus. H...
de Victoria, Tomás Luis
Owen Rees
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Tomás Luis de Victoria Introduction Thome [Tomás] Luis de Victoria (b. c. 1548–d. 1611) is the best-known Spanish composer of the Renaissance....
Du Fay, Guillaume
Robert Nosow
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Guillaume Du Fay Introduction Guillaume Du Fay (b. c. 1397–d. 1474) was the most important composer in Europe during the fifty years from 1420...
Early Modern British Metrical Psalmody (1535-1700)
Timothy Duguid
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Early Modern British Metrical Psalmody (1535–1700) Introduction The Book of Psalms has always played an important role in Christian belief and...
Elgar, Edward
Charles Edward McGuire
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Edward Elgar Introduction Edward Elgar was one of the most renowned and important composers at the beginning of the twentieth century and remai...
Exoticism
W. Anthony Sheppard
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Exoticism Introduction In much of the extensive literature on the subject, exoticism is considered a form of representation in which peoples, ...
Fauré, Gabriel
Erick Arenas
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Gabriel Fauré Introduction Gabriel Fauré (b. 1845–d. 1924) was arguably the most influential French composer of the late 19th and early 20th c...
Film Music
James Wierzbicki
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Film Music Introduction The English-language literature on film music dates back to c. 1909, when advice columns on film accompaniment (likely...
Folk Music
Chris Goertzen
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Folk Music Introduction Folk music, a widely used but controversial term, means oral-tradition music by and for peasants/the working class in ...
Franck, César
Brian Hart
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
César Franck Introduction César Franck (b. 1822–d. 1890) was a polarizing figure in 19th-century French music. An organ professor at the Conse...
Fugue
Paul Walker
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Fugue Introduction The word fugue (fuga in Latin, Fuge in German) has been applied to music continuously since the late Middle Ages, and so has...
Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter Von
Patricia Howard
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck Introduction Christoph Willibald Gluck (b. 1714–d. 1787) has a secure place in history as the reformer of...
Hildegard of Bingen
Honey Meconi
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Hildegard of Bingen Introduction Hildegard of Bingen (b. 1098–d. 1179), Benedictine nun and founder of two religious communities, is highly un...
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