Music ranges from strictly organized compositions ( and their recreation in performance ), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms.

Music plays a large role in most PC ( USA ) worship services and ranges from chant to traditional Protestant hymns, to classical sacred music, to more modern music, depending on the preference of the individual church and is offered prayerfully and not " for entertainment or artistic display.

The pitch ranges of two of the original singers for whom Mozart tailored his music have posed challenges for many singers who have since recreated their roles.

There are a few families of instruments that have instruments of various sizes and ranges, but whose music is rarely or never transposed.

Non-quichua indigenous music ranges from the Tsáchila music of Santo Domingo ( influenced by the neighboring Afro-marimba ) to the Amazonian music of groups such as the Shuar.

Contemporary Australian music ranges across a broad spectrum with trends often concurrent with those of the US, the UK, and similar nations – notably in the Australian rock and Australian country music genres.

The choir's extensive repertoire ranges from the earliest church music and Gregorian chant, through the polyphony of Byrd and extending to 19th and 20th century composers such as Vierne and Stanford.

The music ranges from intensely rhythmic piano solos to slow, broad, and richly orchestrated sections.

28 ) most of Dupré's music for the organ ranges from moderately to extremely difficult, and some of it makes almost impossible technical demands on the performer ( e. g., Évocation op.

Music suitable for dancing ranges from about 150 bpm ( beats per minute ) to around 250 bpm, although most dancing is done to music somewhere between 160 – 220 bpm.

The music of Morocco ranges and differs according to the various areas of the country.

From a starting point that combines Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy to create a personal epic of 20th century life, the poem uses materials from history, politics, literature, art, music, economics, philosophy, mythology, ecology and the poet's personal experiences and ranges across European, American, African and Asian cultures.

The music of Chile ranges from folkloric music, popular music and also to classical music.

Music in worship ranges from plainsong to motets from the baroque and classical periods to contemporary and world music.

Some musicians can transpose music during performance to suit particular instruments or vocal ranges, to make the playing of the instrument ( s ) or singing easier, or a number of other uses.

Content ranges from local news, access broadcasts, satellite sourced news, tourist information and Christian programming to music videos.

The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

The bulk of his early reputation, however, came not from his poetry or his music, but from his excellence as an orator.

As I have said, words from Tennyson remain ever in my memory: `` That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before ''.

) From the technical standpoint, records differ from live music to the degree that they fail to convey the true color, texture, complexity, range, intensity, pulse, and pitch of the original.

his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs!!

You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.

Coming from a priest, the music sounds as odd as the advice:

This is exactly what happened in the transition from baroque to rococo music.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

The rock and roll music coming from the radio station suddenly faded as the boat coasted into the null on the Aj.

And as the waves flow back and forth and merge with the waves from the neighboring atoms, you can put on a magic hearing aid and you hear music.

It is a music like the music from a great organ or a vast orchestra playing a symphony.

and as this music ebbs and flows, there is an antiphonal chorus from all the atoms outside, in fact from the atoms of the entire universe.

There are 12 of these to choose from, all of them of popular music except for the star release, Pass In Review ( SP-44001 ).

the mazurka choreographed by Witold Zapala to music from Moniuszko's opera, `` Strasny Dwor', may be the most beautiful mazurka you are likely ever to see ; ;

Whether fan of the Pagnol films or stage show, whether partial to music or not, you can't help but derive joy from this picture if you have a sense of humor and a heart.

Since rococo music tends to be pretty and elegant above all, it can seem rather vacuous to twentieth-century ears that have grown accustomed to the stress and dissonances of composers from Beethoven to Boulez.

Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The ballads are sweet and sad, and the music generally competent.

Anglo-American traditional music also includes a variety of broadside ballads, humorous stories and tall tales, and disaster songs regarding mining, shipwrecks and murder.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

From the end of the 15th century we have printed ballads that suggest a rich tradition of popular music.

At the same time in Germany Goethe cooperated with Schiller on a series of ballads, some of which were later set to music by Schubert.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Later it moved into a more pastoral form, like Isaac Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village ( 1763 ) and Shield ’ s Rosina ( 1781 ), using more original music that imitated, rather than reproduced, existing ballads.

Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.

They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera ( descendants perhaps of broadside ballads, but with printed music, and usually newly composed.

Sullivan completed his Festival Te Deum ( 1872 ); another oratorio, The Light of the World ( 1873 ); his only song cycle, The Window ; or, The Song of the Wrens ( 1871 ); incidental music to The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1874 ); and more songs, parlour ballads, and hymns, including " Onward, Christian Soldiers " ( 1872 ).

The album experimented with a variety of musical genres, including British music hall, heavy metal, ballads, ragtime, and Caribbean.

Also of partly Portuguese origin are the romantic keroncong ballads sung to guitar music.

These traditions consisted primarily of English and Scottish ballads — which were essentially unaccompanied narratives — and dance music, such as Irish reels, which were accompanied by a fiddle.

During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, and Australian folk music and bush ballads such as Waltzing Matilda were heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, while classical forms were derived from those of Europe.

Waltzing Matilda, often regarded by foreigners as Australia's unofficial national anthem, is a quintessential Australian country song, influenced more by Celtic folk ballads than by American Country and Western music.

The musical style is predominantly music hall, but the show includes a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, a church choir arrangement with some completely incongruous lyrics ( A Little Bit On The Side ), and some touching ballads.

Probably the most prominent male voice of Spanish pop music at that time, he became famous for his powerful, carefully arranged ballads, pop and rock.

John Lodge would make a defining shift in his songwriting on this album, leaving his trademark high-energy rock music, and instead gravitating towards slow love ballads such as " Lean On Me ( Tonight )" ( though he had earlier contributed some songs in this gentler vein such as " Emily's Song " for his daughter in 1971 and " Survival " in 1978, plus " Talking out of Turn " in 1981 ), while Lodge's more powerful songs continued with " Magic " and the Lennonesque " Shadows On the Wall ".

Australia has a long tradition of country music, which has developed a style quite distinct from its US counterpart, influenced by Celtic folk ballads and the traditions of Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.

Historically, arena rock bands have often come from the hard rock, heavy metal and progressive rock genres, utilising a more commercially oriented and radio-friendly sound, with highly-produced music that includes both hard rock numbers and power ballads, both often employing anthemic choruses.

His rich, vibrant, baritone voice brought the full majesty of the gospel tradition to a series of intense, moody ballads and laid down the solid groundwork of the soon-to-follow soul music explosion.

Nat King Cole followed Sinatra into the pop music world bringing with him a similar combination of swing bands and ballads.

While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as Rock And Roll, novelty songs, the Twist, torch ballads, or the Girl Group Sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis ' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging in everything from R & B, vocal jazz and country to Broadway standards, children's music, waltzes, spiritual music, Schlager music, Traditionals from various ethnic groups represented in the US and select songs from popular songwriters of the day, such as Burt Bacharach & Hal David, or Les Reed.