These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself ; ;

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.

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

The lyric beauties of Schubert's Trout Quintet -- its elemental rhythms and infectious melodies -- make it a source of pure pleasure for almost all music listeners.

However, in all of Prokofieff's music, young or mature, we find his profile -- his `` signature '' -- his craftsman's attitude.

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.

I think all this could apply to Parker just as well, although, because of the nature of music, it is not demonstrable -- at least not conclusively.

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.

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 ).

After all, the opera has juicy music to sing and the goodies are well distributed, with no less than six leading parts.

What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.

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.

The entrance of the Stadtisches Gesangverein ( Bonn's civic chorus ) was worth all the waiting, however, as the young Rhenish voices finally brought the music to life.

The birds were really awake now in a colloquy of music, and light was beginning to creep across the room, touching sill and door, table and chair and all of Doaty's flowers in their artificial blossom and leaf.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

Moody's preaching and Sankey's musical gifts were significant ; their arrangements were the forerunners of gospel music, and churches all over the U. S. were eager to acquire them.

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.

" While his one-time acolytes The Rolling Stones and Cream made the front pages of music magazines all over the world, Korner was relegated to the role of ' elder statesman '.

Ballblazer, released in 1987, uses the POKEY to generate all music and sound effects.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Catching the impulse from Hilary and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed several original hymns as well, four of which still survive, along with music which may not have changed too much from the original melodies.

In large churches where they were celebrated the services were usually grouped ; e. g. Matins and Lauds ( about 7. 30 A. M .); Prime, Terce ( High Mass ), Sext, and None ( about 10 A. M .); Vespers and Compline ( 4 P. M .); and from four to eight hours ( depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses ) are thus spent in choir.

The translation by Richard Crashaw was set to music in a four part glee by Samuel Webbe Jr.

Apart from the ' College ' and the ' Time ' series, Brubeck recorded four LPs featuring his compositions based on the group's travels, and the local music they encountered.

The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.

A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s.

In the 1990s and 2000s, many drummers in popular music and indie music have reverted back to basic four piece drum set standard.

In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a " schema comprising four musical types: ' primitive ' or ' tribal '; ' elite ' or ' art '; ' folk '; and ' popular '.

Men's floor routines usually have four passes that will total between 60 – 70 seconds and are performed without music, unlike the women's event.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.

The following year he began publishing his music ; four collections of instrumental pieces appeared within the next three years, and many more publications would follow.

* Hélène ( drama ), a drame in four acts and five tableaux of 1891, with French words by Paul Delair and incidental music by André Messager

In Pola Baytleman ’ s biography on Albéniz, she discerns four characteristics of the music from the middle period as follows: “ 1.

Together, they wrote the music for more than twelve shows and four films.

The story is the basis of an opera, The Judgment of Paris, with a libretto by William Congreve, that was set to music by four composers in London, 1700-1701.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

Her arrangement of composer John Cage's prepared piano duet " Three Dances " for four prepared bass koto was a landmark in the modern era of koto music.

The rhythm could vary but the music was arranged in either two or four lines consisting of five beats each.

As part of that settlement, the company agreed to pay $ 100 million in damages to the four major music companies — Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music — and an undisclosed amount to the studios.

Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, well known there for his flower paintings, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Led Zeppelin are the fourth-highest-selling music act in the US and one of only three acts to earn four or more Diamond albums.

* In the music video for the song " The Name of the Game " by the Swedish pop group ABBA, the four members of the group are shown playing Fia-spel.