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N’Dour, Youssou
Emma Jensen
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Youssou N’DourIntroductionYoussou N’Dour (b. 1959) is a world-renowned Senegalese pop star. He was born into a devout Muslim home in Dakar to Elimane ...
Nationalism in Western Art Music
Jonathan Gentry
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Nationalism in Western Art Music Introduction During the 18th century, music developed the capacity to articulate nationalism. While local and ...
Nketia, J.H. Kwabena
Kwasi Ampene
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
J.H. Kwabena NketiaIntroductionJoseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (b. 22 June 1921–d. 13 March 2019) from Ghana was the preeminent scholar of African musics...
North Africa
Kristy Barbacane
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
North Africa Introduction Also known as the Maghrib, the geographical region of North Africa traditionally describes the present-day nations o...
Oboe
Geoffrey Burgess
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
OboeIntroductionThe term oboe refers to a conical-bored treble aerophone that uses a double reed as sound generator. Although their origins are still ...
Operetta
Micaela Baranello
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
OperettaIntroductionOperetta is a form of musical theater that mixes song with spoken dialogue and dance. It originated in France in the 1850s and spr...
Orchestral Music
D. Kern Holoman
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Orchestral Music Introduction Music for the concert orchestra that coalesced in 18th-century Europe falls into two major genres: the symphony ...
Organum
Thomas Payne
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Organum Introduction As the Latin form of the Greek ὄργανον (organon: “tool,” “instrument,” “systematic principle”), the word organum refers m...
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Noel O'Regan
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Giovanni Pierluigi Da PalestrinaIntroductionThe composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was already being recognized as an iconic figure during his ...
Parton, Dolly
Philip Vandermeer
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Dolly PartonIntroductionDolly Rebecca Parton, born 19 January 1946 in Locust Ridge (Sevier County), Tennessee, is an internationally renowned composer...
Peking Opera (Beijing Opera, jingju)
Stella Zhizhi Li
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Peking Opera (Beijing Opera, jingju)IntroductionPeking Opera (jingju 京剧), a major genre of classical Chinese theater (xiqu 戏曲), emerged in the late 18...
Penderecki, Krzysztof
Andrea F. Bohlman
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Krzysztof PendereckiIntroductionKrzysztof Penderecki (1933–) was one of the most celebrated and, at times, controversial composers from Poland in the ...
Performance Practice in Western Art Music
Mary Cyr
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Performance Practice in Western Art MusicIntroductionPerformance practice (or performing practice, from the German word Aufführungspraxis) is a field ...
Philosophy of Music
Theodore Gracyk
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Philosophy of MusicIntroductionNarrowly construed, philosophy of music encompasses all theorizing about music that arises within philosophy. More broa...
Ponce, Manuel
Jorge Barrón Corvera
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Manuel PonceIntroductionManuel María Ponce Cuéllar (b. Fresnillo, Zacatecas, 8 December 1882–d. Mexico City, 24 April 1948) is one of Mexico’s foremos...
Popular Song in the Age of Louis XIV
John Romey
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Popular Song in the Age of Louis XIVIntroductionAcross early modern Europe popular tunes functioned as canvases for new texts and they served thereby ...
Post-Colonialism
Olivia Bloechl
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Post-ColonialismIntroductionPost-colonialism (postcolonialism) is a form of critical thought that investigates the cultural history of colonialism and...
Poulenc, Francis
Carl Schmidt
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Francis PoulencIntroductionFrancis Poulenc (b. 7 January 1899–d. 30 January 1963) is the most frequently performed, recorded, and studied member of th...
Printing and Publishing of Music
Catherine Massip, Stanley Boorman
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Printing and Publishing of MusicIntroductionThis article covers the dissemination of musical scores by technical means. The function of both printing ...
Program Music
Jonathan Kregor, Rebecca Schreiber
Subject: Music »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Program MusicIntroductionStudies of program music explore ways in which extra-musical material is expressed and interpreted through music. Conceptions...
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