The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

Since polyphonic texture was no longer the main focus of music ( excluding the development section ) but rather a single melodic line with accompaniment, there was greater emphasis on notating that line for dynamics and phrasing.

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

Gambling with two or three dice was a very popular form of amusement in Greece, especially with the upper classes, and an invariable accompaniment to symposia.

Besides solo works, the historical harpsichord was widely used for accompaniment in the basso continuo style ( a function it maintained in operatic recitative even into the 19th century ).

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

While in European classical music elements of interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment are sometimes left to the performer's discretion, the performer's primary goal is to play a composition as it was written.

This collection of lute-songs was set out in a way that allows performance by a soloist with lute accompaniment or various combinations of singers and instrumentalists.

Song accompaniment was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, but very little music securely attributable to the lute survives from the era before 1500.

Over the course of the Baroque era the lute was increasingly relegated to the continuo accompaniment, and was eventually superseded in that role by keyboard instruments.

The name " motet " was preserved in Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to two distinct, and very different, genres: petits motets, sacred choral or chamber compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo ; and grands motets, which included massed choirs and instruments up to and including a full orchestra.

During the Baroque and Classical periods, recitative could appear in two basic forms: secco ( dry ) recitative, accompanied only by continuo, which was usually a harpsichord and a cello ; or accompagnato ( also known as strumentato ) in which the orchestra provided accompaniment.

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

The TB-303 ( short for " Transistorized Bass ") was originally marketed to guitarists for bass accompaniment while practicing alone.

He was backed by an orchestra in the studio and Porter told him he would have to sing louder than his accompaniment because the orchestra was unable to be softer than his voice.

However, one of these, Il corsaro ( Rome, 1831 ) was revived one hundred and seventy-three years later, in 2004, albeit only with piano accompaniment.

From the beginning of the 17th century until late in the 18th, the cantata for one or two solo voices with accompaniment of basso continuo ( and perhaps a few solo instruments ) was a principal form of Italian vocal chamber music.

Some are sung unaccompanied while others usually have guitar or other accompaniment.

There is usually no musical accompaniment to the dialogue, although sometimes some musical themes are played quietly under it.

The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment.

Two-mallet players usually concentrate on playing a single melodic line and rely on other musicians to provide accompaniment.

In jazz groups, two-mallet vibraphonists are usually considered part of the " front line " with the horn players, contributing solos of their own but contributing very little in the way of accompaniment to other soloists.

While in Greece and Turkey the dish is usually served as an accompaniment, in other places tzatziki is often served with bread ( loaf or pita ) as part of the first course of a meal.

Turkish Cacık is the more diluted cousin of tzatziki, usually served as an accompaniment to meat, though it is suggested as a soup or a salad also.

Yorkshire pudding normally accompanies beef ( although traditionally served in Yorkshire, as a starter, from the days when meat was scarce so was served first as a " filler " ), sage and onion stuffing pork, and usually parsley stuffing chicken ; gravy is now often served as an accompaniment to the main course.

He would sing and play guitar with accompaniment of two other members, usually on washboard and tea-chest bass.

In Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia, an unsweetened and unsalted yogurt drink usually called simply jogurt is a popular accompaniment to burek and other bakery products.

Carnatic music is usually performed by a small ensemble of musicians, consisting of a principal performer ( usually a vocalist ), a melodic accompaniment ( usually a violin ), a rhythm accompaniment ( usually a mridangam ), and a tambura, which acts as a drone throughout the performance.

This usually consists of, at least, a principal performer, a melodic accompaniment, a rhythm accompaniment, and a drone.

This usually consists of, at least, a principal performer, a melodic accompaniment, a rhythm accompaniment, and a drone.

Instruments, such as the Saraswati veena and / or venu flute, can be occasionally found as a rhythmic accompaniment, but usually, a vocalist is supported by a violin player ( who sits on his / her left ).

In this, the accompaniment ( usually violin, sometimes veena ) performs along with the main performer and the percussion ( such as a mridangam ).

The films were shown with the accompaniment of music provided by a pianist, though there could be more musicians.

Howard was a horse-drawn taxi driver and electrician, and Lida a versatile pianist who played accompaniment at silent movies and for parties.

The pianist in Freberg's parody is an Erroll Garner and George Shearing devotee who rebels against playing a single-chord accompaniment.

She then became a cinema pianist providing the musical accompaniment for silent films.

She began her career as a pianist specialising in the accompaniment of Lieder, supporting herself by working as an art and literary critic, often needing to translate the works herself, that she was writing about.

Even in the silent film era, films were shown with sounds, often with musical accompaniment by a pianist keeping time with the screen action.

A third staff, which requires the pianist to perform large jumps with both hands frequently, contains the a motif from the earlier orchestral accompaniment.

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