From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

In 1928 the music critic Andre Coeuroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that " perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone " ( Coeuroy 1928, 162 ).

Music critic Dave Marsh also wrote that these compositions " define a world unto themselves more completely than any other body of work in pop music ".

Music critic Ken Emerson writes that the " apocalyptic romanticism " in Orbison's music was well-crafted for the films his songs appeared in in the 1980s because the music was " so over-the-top that dreams become delusions, and self-pity paranoia ", striking " a postmodern nerve ".

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Music critic Jon Savage asserted that Britpop was " an outer-suburban, middle-class fantasy of central London streetlife, with exclusively metropolitan models.

Music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where Britpop ended ; Savage said that while the album " isn't the great disaster that everybody says ," he noted that " t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record " of the period.

* Wilfrid Mellers, Music critic and composer

Music critic Will Friedwald has written that Louis Armstrong's scatting, for example, " has tapped into his own core of emotion ", releasing emotions " so deep, so real " that they are unspeakable ; his words " bypass our ears and our brains and go directly for our hearts and souls ".

Music critic Simon Reynolds said in 1992 that " there's a feeling of burnout in the culture at large.

Music critic J. D. Considine wrote of the band:

On 11 October 2011, English singer-songwriter, Kate Bush, released, as a single from her album, " 50 Words for Snow ," the critically acclaimed and evocative, seven minute song, " Wild Man ," described by New Music Express music critic, Priya Elan, as having lyrics " full of geographical intrigue and century old myth.

Music critic Harold C. Schonberg in The Great Conductors ( 1967 ), says that while Strauss was a very fine conductor, he often put scant effort into his recordings.

Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies, who introduces each segment in live action interstitial scenes.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said, " It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles ," leading to the inclusion of several cover versions after the all-original A Hard Day's Night ; the band's visible weariness on the album's cover is noted by narrator Malcolm McDowell during The Compleat Beatles.

Music critic Alan Blyth said " Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty.

" Indeed, in 1998, after researching the Pulitzer Prize for Music, music critic Kyle Gann wrote that the awards panel often included " the same seven names over and over as judges ": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman ( now deceased ), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands.

Music critic Jeff Bond writes, " The final result was one of the most unusual Star Trek movie themes ," consisting of a six-note theme and variations set against a repetitious four-note brass motif ; the theme's bridge borrows content from Rosenman's " Frodo March " for The Lord of the Rings.

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Music critic Greg Tate described it as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme.

Music critic Otakar Hostinský believed that Wagner's theories should be the basis of the national opera, and argued that Dalibor was the beginning of the " correct " direction.

Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes Adrenaline at number 33, just after Deicide's self-titled album and before Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, in his classification of the best metal albums of all times.

In 1995, composer and critic Kyle Gann published a full-length study of Nancarrow's output, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow ( Cambridge University Press, 1995, 303 pp .).

Following the publication of his book The State of Music he established himself in New York City as a peer of Aaron Copland and was also a music critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 through 1954.

Music critic John Rockwell said, " Ives's voice ... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual.

Virgil Thomson's personal papers are in a repository at the Archival Papers in the Music Library of Yale University and also additional effects regarding Thomson are included in the Ian Hornak repository at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in Washington D. C.

* Ian Lake launches the Music of our Time Festival for unknown composers.

Ian Brown used a passage from Elizabeth's poem A Musical Note to name his third solo album The Music of the Spheres.

* Race, Steve ( 1979 ) My Music ; with the contributions of Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Ian Wallace, John Amis and David Franklin ; drawings by John Jensen.

Their discography for EMI includes Fauré ’ s La Bonne Chanson with Ian Bostridge ; Schubert ’ s Trout Quintet with Thomas Adès and Corin Long ; a double disc of Britten ’ s string quartets, which won a MIDEM Cannes Award ; Mozart ’ s “ Dissonance ” and “ Hoffmeister ” quartets ; and the complete Bartók quartets, for which the Quartet was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany's prestigious Echo Klassik Awards and nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award.

* CWO ( Ret ` d ) Jack Kopstein CD & Ian Pearson ` The Heritage of Military Music in Canada ` ( St. Catharines, Ont.

* Webster, Peter and Jones, Ian, ' Expressions of Authenticity: Music for Worship ' In: Redefining Christian Britain.

In June 2007 she sang with the group Sed Nove and Ian Gillan in the Festival of Music in Paris.

Christopher Lee took over the role of Death from Ian Richardson ( a role Lee previously portrayed in the animated series Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters ).

He was joined by David Bradley as Cohen the Barbarian, Sean Astin as Twoflower, Tim Curry as Trymon, and Christopher Lee taking over the role of Death from Ian Richardson ( a role he previously portrayed in the animated series Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters ).

Janis Ian, who attended the High School of Music and Art in New York at the same time as Nyro, discussed her friendship with Nyro during the late 1960s in her autobiography, Society's Child.

* Ian Wallace ( singer ) ( 1919 – 2009 ), singer and contestant on My Music

Music for the production was composed and directed by Brian Mac Ian, although it was original music and not directly influenced by Todd Barton's work.

Notable among these are Mike Pickering, who introduced house music to The Haçienda in Manchester in the 1980s, the influential DJ Colin Curtis, Neil Rushton the A & R manager of the House music record label Kool Kat Music and the dance record producers Pete Waterman, Johnathan Woodliffe, Ian Dewhirst and Ian Levine.

Alongside fellow Fifer, author Ian Rankin, Vettriano put in a cameo appearance in a video with Scottish indie band Saint Jude's Infirmary made for BBC Scotland's ' The Music Show '.

In September 2011 the completed new XFM schedule launched with Ian Camfield moving to networked mid-mornings, Eoghan Mcdermott to a new networked drivetime slot and Mary Anne Hobbs moving to a re-launched evening show " Music: Response ".

During 2002, Lasgo was nominated for several awards: International Dance Club Hit of the Year ( with " Something ") and International New Dance Group of the Year at the Danish Dance Awards and Best Trance Act at the Dancestar World Music Awards 2002 ( which was won by Ian Van Dahl's song " Castles in the Sky ").

Ian Inglis, author of Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time ( 2006 ) notes the fact that " Jackson lip-synced ' Billie Jean ' is, in itself, not extraordinary, but the fact that it did not change the impact of the performance is extraordinary ; whether the performance was live or lip-synced made no difference to the audience.

* Music under Soviet Rule, by Ian McDonald

Ian is a regular commentator on various VH1 shows including the “ I Love The 70s, 80s, and 90s ” series, “ 100 Most Metal Moments ”, “ Awesomely Bad Number One Songs ”, “ When Metallica Ruled The World ”, and episodes of VH1's “ Behind The Music ” featuring Metallica, Pantera and Anthrax.

The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show is followed by the " Two Rays ": D ' Arcy and Foley, both of whom have each won three Meteor Music Awards.

In October 2009, his chamber opera For You, again with Ian McEwan as librettist, was premiered by Music Theatre Wales.

* Ian Kemp / Michael Meckna: " Peter Racine Fricker ", Grove Music Online ed.

In November 2008, the magazine Music Week reported that UK Music CEO Feargal Sharkey, had written to Sir Ian Blair, then head of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Information Commissioner Richard Thomas " to clarify the ' use and purpose ' of form 696, which asks for personal details on artists and musicians performing at gigs and the style of music they will be playing.