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 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.

Salieri collaborated with Casti to produce a parody of the relationship between poet and composer in Prima la musica e poi le parole ( First the Music and then the Words ).

Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (; born 11 October 1961 ) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music ; he is the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music.

His seventh wife, Nina Bushkin, whom he married on May 30, 1977, was the director of development at Mannes College of Music and the daughter of composer and musician Joey Bushkin.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term " can also be applied to music which has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

The respected composer Richard Strauss, for example, became head of the Reich Music Chamber.

* 1946 – Andy Mackay, English musician, songwriter, producer, and composer ( Roxy Music )

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

Music historians may examine issues in a close focus, as in the case of scholars who examine the relationship between words and music for a given composer.

For example, the peculiar development of the works by modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg ( here an " ontogeny ") is generalized in many histories into a " phylogeny " – a historical development (" evolution ") of Western Music toward atonal styles of which Schoenberg is a representative.

Ryuichi Sakamoto has won a number of awards for his work as a film composer, beginning with his score for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ) winning him the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

* Gillian Whitehead, ( BMus ( Hons ), Honorary Doctor of Music ) New Zealand composer

He encouraged the composer / engineer Andre Smirnov to establish the Theremin Center at the Moscow Conservatory of Music.

In his film score for " Of Mice and Men " ( 1939 ) and consequently in his collection " Music for the Movies " ( 1942 ), American composer Aaron Copland titled a section of the score " Threshing Machines ," to suit a scene in the Lewis Milestone film where Curley is threatening Slim over giving May a puppy, when many of the itinerant worker men are standing around or working on threshers.

" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians writes of Novello that he was " until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals.

Louth Contemporary Music Society invited the US composer Terry Riley to perform in Drogheda in 2007, Arvo Pärt's first Irish commission and visit to the country was in Drogheda in February 2008, Michael Nyman performed in Drogheda in May 2008, John Tavener's Temenos festival was held in October 2008 and the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was the focus of a portrait concert as part of the Drogheda Arts festival on 1 May 2009.

Music by the film's composer, Alberto Iglesias, was incorporated into the stage production, with additional music by Max and Ben Ringham.

Composed for connoisseurs, for the refreshment of their spirits, by Johann Sebastian Bach, composer for the royal court of Poland and the Electoral court of Saxony, Kapellmeister and Director of Choral Music in Leipzig.

In 2011, the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians observed, " The popularity of L ' apprenti sorcier and the exhilarating film version of it in Disney's Fantasia possibly hindered a fuller understanding of Dukas, as that single work is far better known than its composer.