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 ''.

Norman premiered the song cycle woman. life. song by composer Judith Weir, a work commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estés ; performed a selection of sacred music of Duke Ellington ; recorded a jazz album, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand ; and was the soprano co-lead in Vangelis ' project Mythodea. Norman commended herself in Mussorgsky's songs, which she performed in Moscow in the original Russian.

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.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.

Cried the ladies, enchanted by his music.

In addition to the many appearances of these organizations throughout the college year, there are concerts by students of the music department, by members of the music faculty, and by visiting artists.

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.

In all his miscalculations, Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers' inspirations -- representing many peoples, time periods and styles -- into his own music by warping the harmony, melody, or form, to verify his own experiments.

Similarly, the innovations of bop, and of Parker particularly, have been vastly overrated by people unfamiliar with music, especially by that ignoramus, the intellectual jitterbug, the jazz aficionado.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

One of the script's big problems was how to blend pictures and music of the past with live performances by musicians of today.

'' With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, directed by Christopher Hewett, choreography by Peter Conlow, musical direction by Samuel Matlowsky.

The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

Frank Gaebelein observes that " Greek mercenaries and slaves served in the Babylonian and Assyrian periods, some of whom were undoubtedly versed in Greek music and musical instruments.

The word music comes from the Greek mousikê ( tekhnê ) by way of the Latin musica.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d ' Honneur by the French Government.

Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.

Greek musical literacy created a flowering of music development.

Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, that eventually became the basis for Western religious and classical music.

Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe, and the Byzantine Empire changed Greek music.

The music notation is the line of occasional symbols above the main, uninterrupted line of Greek lettering.

* MAD TV ( Greece ), a Greek music channel

( Other Greek mourning customs include not playing music, not entertaining guests, and using no festive decorations, e. g. on Christmas, during the customary year-long mourning period ).

She studied French, Spanish, music, dance, and perhaps Greek.

A. E. Housman refers to the ' Greek Lad ', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth.

Category: Ancient Greek music theorists

The word psalms is derived from the Greek Ψαλμοί ( Psalmoi ), perhaps originally meaning " music of the lyre " or " songs sung to a harp " and then to any piece of music.

It is found in many forms of music: Greek folk music, Italian folk music, classical music, Persian music, gospel music, pop music and rock music.