Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).

Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The term Early music era may also refer to contemporary but traditional or folk music, including Asian music, Persian music, music of India, Jewish music, Greek music, Roman music, the music of Mesopotamia, the music of Egypt, and Muslim music.

Gen. Wheaton had become a local folk hero when he successfully defended Washington, DC and nearby Fort Stevens from an attack by Confederate General Jubal Early on July 11 – 12, 1864.

Early 20th scholarly analysis of American music tended to interpret European-derived classical traditions as the most worthy of study, with the folk, religious and traditional musics of the common people denigrated as low-class and of little artistic or social worth.

Music of Israel: Early Zionist settlers in Palestine, as far back as the 1880s, sought to create a new mode of Jewish folk music that was based on Biblical musical modes that had long since been abandoned.

Early in their recording careers, Hall & Oates had trouble clearly defining their sound, alternating among folk, soul, rock and pop.

In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits ( sometimes referred to simply as " familiars ") were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic.

After the final fade to black a sequence featuring an actor playing the Minstrel would be shown as he sung these lyrics to the tune of " Early One Morning ": " We'll have the merry time again with Robin and his Merry Men and the folk who'll bring him to you then now beg a word with you.

Early American alternative bands such as R. E. M., The Feelies, and Violent Femmes combined punk influences with folk music and mainstream music influences.

Early scholars of folk drama, influenced by James Frazer's The Golden Bough, tended to view these plays as debased versions of a pre-Christian fertility ritual, but this view is discounted by modern researchers.

He also authored the 1987 book, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, which argues that early Mormon leaders were greatly influenced by folk magic and superstitious beliefs including stone looking, charms, and divining rods.

Early in 1966 Palmer began running an all-night folk club, Clive's Incredible Folk Club, on the fourth floor of a building in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, where they became the house band.

Britain in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods was a place where folk magic was widely popular amongst much of the populace.

The cunning folk were also commonly employed to locate missing or stolen property and uncover the perpetrator: this was of particular importance throughout the Early Modern period, when peoples ' possessions were far more valued than in later centuries as they were expensive to replace, particularly for the poor.

In England during the Early Medieval period, various forms of folk magic could be found amongst the Anglo-Saxons, who referred to such practitioners as wicca ( male ) or wicce ( female ), or at times also as dry, practitioners of drycraeft, the latter of which have been speculated as being anglicised terms for the Irish drai, a term referring to druids, who appeared as anti-Christian sorcerers in much Irish literature of the period.

In England and Wales, which had been politically united following the Norman invasion of Wales in the Late Medieval period, cunning folk had operated throughout the latter part of the Medieval and into the Early Modern period.

During the witch trials of Early Modern Europe, many practitioners of folk magic that did not see themselves as witches, but as healers or seers, were convicted of witchcraft ( Éva Pócs ' " sorcerer witches "): many English " witches " convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised, and over half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View is an exhaustive recounting of the role of 19th-century New England folk magic lore in Joseph Smith's early visions and in the development of the Book of Mormon.

Early in the 20th century, Grainger started collecting folk songs from around England, using wax cylinders to capture performances in the field as well as transcribing them.

Early folk song collectors also often collected nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 8 ).

Early demos by Chumbawamba feature the accordion and the trumpet, though it would take them over 20 years to actually transition into a full fledged folk act.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

The Cantigas are frequently recorded and performed by Early Music groups, and quite a few CDs featuring music from the Cantigas are available.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

Early pre-bluegrass traditional music was often accompanied by the cello.

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Baroque.

* Early music festivals

Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive 4 / 4 beats and rhythms centered around drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals and synthesized basslines.

* Brahms by Malcolm MacDonald is a biography and discussion of virtually everything Brahms composed, along with chapters examining his position in Romantic music, his devotion to Early Music, and his influence on later composers.

Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

Early software releases in the CD-i format focused heavily on educational, music, and self-improvement titles, with only a handful of video games, many of them adaptations of board games such as Connect Four.

" Structure, Function and Process in the Early Song Cycles and Extended Songs of the Canadian Rock Group Rush ," PhD dissertation in music theory, Ohio State University, 2002.

As in the other arts, the music of the period was significantly influenced by the developments which define the Early Modern period: the rise of humanistic thought ; the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of ancient Greece and Rome ; increased innovation and discovery ; the growth of commercial enterprise ; the rise of a bourgeois class ; and the Protestant Reformation.

Early Western religious music often features parallel perfect intervals ; these intervals would preserve the clarity of the original plainsong.

Early music also forbade usage of the tritone, as its dissonance was associated with the devil, and composers often went to considerable lengths, via musica ficta, to avoid using it.

Early in 1986, the musical sitcom Kids Incorporated, about a pre-teen ( and later teen-to-young adult ) gang of friends who formed a pop group, mixing their everyday situations with variety-show and music video style performances.

Early influences on his music included not only the previously mentioned Four Freshmen and Chuck Berry, but also the work of record producer Phil Spector, with whose production technique Wilson became obsessed for years.

However, despite earlier concepts of a strict Early Historic evolution, Irish excavations are increasingly uncovering examples which date to the ' missing ' Iron Age in Ireland.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

Early in their career, the band was considered to be a part of the " grunge " movement ; despite assertions by critics that their style in the early 90's was derived from contemporary artists such as Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam, the band maintained that the similarities were coincidental, due in part to having the same musical idols growing up.

Early in the 20th Century, Yonkers also hosted a brass era automobile maker, Colt Runabout Company ; despite the car's seemingly glowing performance, the company went under.

Early on, Daltrey was the band's leader, earning a reputation for using his fists to exercise control when needed, despite his small stature ( his height is reportedly 5 feet 7 inches ( 1. 70 m )).

A unique version of April appeared in the final issues of Star Trek: Early Voyages where he appeared as a stubborn and extremely militaristic person, who ordered an attack against an unknown ship that was making provocative moves against the Enterprise, despite the fact that Number One was in command.

Among artists the German Nazarene movement from 1809 and English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 both rejected the values of at least the later Renaissance, but in practice, and despite sometimes depicting medieval scenes, their work draws its influences mostly from the Early Renaissance rather than the Gothic or earlier periods-the early graphic work of John Millais being something of an exception.

Early in the first season of the series, perhaps also in response to some public criticism, the character of " Agent Rossi ", identified as a person of Italian extraction, was added to Ness's team as a driver, despite Rossi having no previous training or experience in law enforcement.

Poul Anderson presented an antithesis in his story The Man Who Came Early, in which a modern American who finds himself in Viking Iceland fails to introduce modern technologies despite being an intelligent, competent, well-trained engineer, and finds that in a 10th century environment 10th century technologies work best.

Inspector Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) and his partner Earlington " Early " Smith ( Felton Perry ) visit the crime scene despite them being loaned to stakeout by their Lieutenant.

Early among them were two redwood framed " double houses " for Stanford University in 1908, and the only fraternity house they designed de novo, the Beta Chi Chapter House of Sigma Nu in 1910 ( razed by the University in 1991 despite student and alumni efforts to give it historic designation and restore it ).

Early on in the game, he was considered a trustworthy individual, despite his used car salesman occupation being known by all.

Finally, although this has received less attention than other parts of Eastern Shore culture, commercial east-west ties between Delaware towns and Maryland towns were culturally significant in Colonial and Early American periods despite the border line ( which largely cut through woods and swamps ).

Early on, he discovers the Phantom's true identity, but chooses to withhold the information from Rebecca Madison despite the enormous reward being offered.

A few weeks and yet another line-up change later ( Sergio Anello for Mike Klemash, Joe Marro joined for Nakovich ), Drive-Thru signed The Early November and put them, despite their practically non-existent stage experience, on 2002's Skate and Surf Fest and on selected dates of the Warped Tour.

The evacuation of Winchester continued undisturbed, and Ramseur, despite his insubordination resulting in unnecessary losses, received nothing more than stern talk from Early.

Early in his life, Joseph Smith III could not affirm Marks and Whitehead despite the eye-witness nature of their statements.

Early European colonisers ran horses and cattle on Towra Point, despite the poor condition of the land for such a purpose.

In the cargo bay, Jayne mocks Book's failure to defeat Early, despite " all them years of priest trainin '", and Book implies that he fought Early and only succumbed after a prolonged fight.