In music, a villanella ( plural villanelle — not to be confused with the French poetic form villanelle ) is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

) The stated goal of the CJS is the synthesis of jazz and `` serious '' music.

His approach to music is highly individualistic ; ;

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

The music is always allowed the living space needed to attain its full sonority ; ;

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

This is precisely what makes lucid, straightforward music so difficult to compose -- the clarity must be new, not old ''.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

and perhaps of even greater significance -- his music is strong 20th-Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution, based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

I think all this could apply to Parker just as well, although, because of the nature of music, it is not demonstrable -- at least not conclusively.

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.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

One thing is certain, however, and that is that he is far more slavish to the detailed accents, phrasings and contours of the music he deals with than a confident dance creator need be.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

Using a wide stage resourcefully he mingled music and dance with Shakespeare's words in a spirited mixture.

An African influence is evident in music and dance, and is moulding the way in which Portuguese is spoken, but is almost disappearing from the vocabulary.

Similar problems arise for music, film, dance, and even painting.

A master of promotion, Diabelli selected widely-accessible music such as famous opera tune arrangements, dance music, or hundreds of the latest popular comic theater songs

Some remixes, particularly in dance music, can also be considered re-arrangements in this style.

Eurythmy seeks to renew the spiritual foundations of dance, revealing speech and music in visible movement.

In 1650 the Minuet, originally a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ballroom from that time until the close of the 18th century.

Since dance is to a large extent tied to music, this led to a burst of newly invented dances.

Ballroom / Smooth dances are normally danced to Western music ( often from the mid-twentieth century ), and couples dance counter-clockwise around a rectangular floor following the line of dance.

Latin / Rhythm dances are commonly danced to contemporary Latin American music, and, with the exception of a few traveling dances ( e. g., Samba and Paso Doble ), couples do not follow the line of dance but perform their routines more or less in one spot.

Bass music ( often known in the UK as UK Bass ) is a collection of various styles of urban dance music that draw influences from American club hip-hop, UK garage and a variety of world ghettofunk genres.

Category: Electronic dance music genres

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

Category: British dance music groups

These days it is considered basic among DJs in electronic dance music genres, and it is standard practice in clubs to keep the constant beat through the night, even if DJs change in the middle.

He was especially fond of the asymmetrical dance rhythms and pungent harmonies found in Bulgarian music.

Parades, music, dance, fireworks, food and drink all feature in the celebrations.

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era ( roughly 1600 – 1750 ), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre and opera.