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Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Yayoi Uno Everett
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Toshi Ichiyanagi Introduction Toshi Ichiyanagi is an influential and prolific Japanese composer who has contributed widely to postwar aestheti...
Iconography, Early Modern European
Barbara R. Hanning
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Early Modern European Iconography Introduction Music has been the performing art most frequently memorialized in the visual arts, resulting in...
Ifukube, Akira
Brooke McCorkle
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Akira IfukubeIntroductionAkira Ifukube (b. 31 May 1914–d. 8 February 2006) was among the most prolific and popular Japanese composers of the 20th cent...
India, Music in
Max Katz
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Music in IndiaIntroductionHome to more than 17 percent of the earth’s population today, India offers a dizzying diversity of musical traditions, pract...
Indigenous Musics of the Arctic
Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Indigenous Musics of the ArcticIntroductionCircumpolar Indigenous peoples share a common cultural thread that may at times seem disparate because of m...
Indonesia
Andrew Weintraub
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Indonesia Introduction Musicological attention to the music of Indonesia dates to the late 19th century and early 20th century, particularly t...
Instrumentation and Orchestration
Paul Mathews
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Instrumentation and OrchestrationIntroductionInstrumentation and orchestration refer to the body of technical knowledge required to arrange musical co...
Instruments, Musical
Jennifer C. Post
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Musical Instruments Introduction Musical instruments are devices used to produce musical sound. Instruments also express individual and communit...
Iran, Music in
Ameneh Youssefzadeh
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Music in IranIntroductionIran is a vast multiethnic and multilingual state with rich and diverse musical traditions. What is often called “Persian mus...
Ireland
Axel Klein
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
IrelandIntroductionAs one of the natural consequences of the general upsurge of musicology in Ireland since the early 1990s, Irish musical bibliograph...
Isaac, Heinrich
Giovanni Zanovello, Ryan E. J. Young
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Heinrich Isaac Introduction Heinrich Isaac (b. c. 1450–d. 1517) is regarded as one of the most celebrated singers and composers of his generat...
Israeli Art Music
Ronit Seter
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Israeli Art MusicIntroductionWritings about music in Israel illuminate a wide range of topics, often exploring the politics of social identities: nati...
Ives, Charles (Edward)
Tom C. Owens
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Charles (Edward) IvesIntroductionCharles Edward Ives (b. 1874–d. 1954) was among the most influential and original composers of the first half of the ...
Janáček, Leoš
Geoffrey Chew
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Leoš Janáček Introduction Leoš Janáček is arguably the most important 20th-century Czech composer of classical music. Before the Prague succes...
Japan
Bonnie Wade
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
JapanIntroductionIn this entry, the topic of Japanese music encompasses historical repertoires and practices that are usually referred to as “traditio...
Jazz
Matthew W. Butterfield
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Jazz Introduction Jazz emerged as a distinct musical art form in early-20th-century America. Though jazz is thought to have originated primaril...
Jewish Music
Edwin Seroussi
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Jewish Music Introduction The concept of “Jewish music” surfaces in public discourse toward the mid-19th century, when conceptions of the esse...
Joachim, Joseph
Katharina Uhde
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Joseph JoachimIntroductionJoseph Joachim (b. 1831–d. 1907), a Hungarian Jew born in Kittsee, occupies a central position in 19th-century German music ...
Joplin, Scott
Bryan S. Wright
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Scott JoplinIntroductionScott Joplin (b. 1867/8–d. 1917) was an American composer, notable for his many piano rags, waltzes, marches, and for his two ...
Karłowicz, Mieczysław
Luca Lévi Sala
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Mieczysław KarłowiczIntroductionThe Polish composer Mieczysław Karłowicz (b. 1876–d. 1909) was born in Wiszniew (now part of Belarus), the youngest so...
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