After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

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.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

Peter Christian Lutkin, dean of the Northwestern University School of Music, helped popularize a cappella music in the United States by founding the Northwestern A Cappella Choir in 1906.

A strong and prominent a cappella tradition was begun in the midwest part of the United States in 1911 by F. Melius Christiansen, a music faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88.

These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

He expanded his repertoire to include songs written in traditional genres of the Mexican music, and during the farmworkers ' rights campaign, wrote music in support of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.

Initially in the United States, there was a market separation between " music " CD-Rs and " data " CD-Rs, the former being several times more expensive than the latter due to industry copyright arrangements with the RIAA.

Throughout the world there are many organizations and institutions dedicated to the area of computer and electronic music study and research, including the ICMA ( International Computer Music Association ), IRCAM, GRAME, SEAMUS ( Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States ), CEC ( Canadian Electroacoustic Community ), and a great number of institutions of higher learning around the world.

Disco music was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity declined in the United States in the late 1970s.

Eventually he returned home to the United States, where he began to take Balinese music lessons at the CalArts.

Associate Members from the United States include ABC, CBS, NBC, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Time Warner, and the only individual station, Chicago-based classical music station WFMT.

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

In the United Kingdom, one of Brooks's most committed fan bases outside the United States, country music disc jockeys, such as Martin Campbell and John Wellington, noted that many fans were buying the album on import.

In some gymnastic associations such as United States Association of Gymnastic Clubs ( USAIGC ), gymnasts are allowed to have vocals in their music but USA Gymnastics competitions a large deduction is taken from the score for having vocals in the music., The routine should consist of tumbling lines, series of jumps, dance elements, acrobatic skills, and turns, or piviots, on one foot.

Factory Records, 4AD Records, and Beggars Banquet Records released much of this music in Europe, while Cleopatra Records among others released the music in the United States, where the subculture grew especially in New York and Los Angeles, California, where many nightclubs featured " gothic / industrial " nights.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

Fans of " mountain music " come from around the United States to hear this annual concentrated gathering of talent.

The program, a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy, is carried on many public radio stations throughout the United States.

Berendt defines jazz as a " form of art music which originated in the United States through the confrontation of blacks with European music "; he argues that jazz differs from European music in that jazz has a " special relationship to time, defined as ' swing '", " a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role "; and " sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician ".

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

The music for the fairies reflects Wagner's style, and the score uses leitmotifs, including a distinctive four-note theme associated with the character of Iolanthe.

This music, which reflects the spirit of the indigenous people of the Altiplano, was an inspiration for the Nueva canción.

However, it strongly reflects Pound's interest in poems written to be sung to music, such as those by the troubadours and Guido Cavalcanti.

The modern music history of Trinidad and Tobago reflects the ethnic groups which form the current culture — French, Spanish, British, the African and New World nations from which the African population derives, and subsequent immigration from Asia and India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Power trio music often reflects a blues or jazz influence, since these two types of music invite improvisation.

Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including country music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal.

Aside from the album title paying homage to Horn's hit single with The Buggles back in 1979, it also reflects Horn and Williams ' mutual disdain for the ongoing crop of reality television and music contest programmes in the UK and elsewhere.

Poster for the premiere of Le pardon de Ploërmel ( Dinorah ) All of his significant music is for the voice ( opera and songs ) and this reflects his detailed grounding in Italian opera.

The team ’ s logo, which was used from 1978 to 1997, reflects the city's association with the country music industry.

This reflects Schenker's belief that the deep, long – range structure of a piece of music has no particular rhythm.

This means that there is no mechanical procedure for arriving at an analysis for a given piece of music ; rather, the analysis reflects the musical intuitions of the analyst.

In Clapham, The Grand, originally the 1900 ' Grand Palace of Varieties ', has been restored, but its interior reflects its modern use as a music venue and nightclub.

Indonesian regional folk pop musics reflects the diversity of Indonesian culture and Indonesian ethicity, mostly use local languages and a mix of western and regional style music and instruments.

Transylvania has been historically and culturally more linked to Central European countries than Southeastern Europe, and its music reflects those influences.

In common with the music traditions of other Asian cultures, such as Persia and India, one strand of traditional Chinese music consists of a repertoire of traditional melodies with tempo and ornamentation varying according to the mood of the instrumentalist, the audience, and their reaction to what is being played, the same melody can be used to serve many different roles be it merry, melancholic or martial ( this can be glimpsed in the love theme of the Butterfly Lovers ' Violin Concerto where the same melody at different points in the lover's story reflects elation, turbulence and dejection ).

The melancholy tone of the music reflects the themes of Finnish folk poetry ; Finnish tango is almost always in a minor key.

The major difference between a calypsonian and a calypso singer is that a true calypsonian writes his / her own material, and sings topical music that reflects the reality of the community, an example being Atilla the Hun, whereas a calypso singer will tend to sing standards, an example being Ritchie Delamore.

His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.