His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

Kites were decorated with mythological motifs and legendary figures ; some were fitted with strings and whistles to make musical sounds while flying.

During the early years of the 1850s Wagner produced some musical sketches for parts of the Ring and noted down various motifs that were to be used in the work.

Some of the motifs he identified began to appear in the published musical scores of the operas, arousing Wagner's annoyance ; his wife Cosima Wagner quoted him as saying ' People will think all this nonsense is done at my request !'.

When compared to other Lieder composers, Loewe's rhapsodic composition style is said to have " a striking absence of organic musical development " His settings of poetry separated poetic ideas and treated them episodically rather than using unifying motifs ( like fellow Lieder composer, Franz Schubert ).

alt = The image depicts musical notation of two similar motifs consisting of four notes, one featuring only semibreves and the other only crotchets.

Rudolph Réti is notable for tracing the development of small melodic motifs through a work, while Nicolas Ruwet's analysis amounts to a kind of musical semiology.

IF their machine imagery was lifted from Russian design motifs that were once considered futuristic, they also presented a “ compelling, if somewhat chilling, vision of the world in which musical ecstasy is rendered cool, mechanical and precise .”

" Bruno, who tells Guy on the train that he admires people " who do things ", gets a more vigorous musical treatment from Tiomkin: " Harmonic complexity defines the motifs associated with Bruno: rumbling bass, shocking clusters, and glassy string harmonics.

African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical motifs in the 19th century, when the habanera ( Cuban contradanza ) gained international popularity.

Basslines in popular music often use " riffs " or " grooves ", which are usually simple, appealing musical motifs or phrases that are repeated, with variation, throughout the song.

Nacre inlay is often used for key touches and other decorative motifs on musical instruments.

Vernallis describes some threads of the visual, aural and musical motifs throughout the film, and how some motifs can work in counterpoint.

They also employed " reminiscence motifs ", recurring musical themes associated with characters or concepts in the opera, which would pave the way for Wagner's use of the leitmotif.

Prominent features of the style include consonant harmony, steady pulse ( if not immobile drones ), stasis or gradual transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells.

As Ernest Ansermet once declared, " these symphonies are not thematic but ' motivic ': that is to say Malipiero uses melodic motifs like everyone else [...] they generate other motifs, they reappear, but they do not carry the musical discourse-they are, rather, carried by it ".

Above all, his works distinguish themselves from those of any prior composer through his creation of large, extended architectonic structures characterized by the extensive development of musical material, themes, and motifs, usually by means of " modulation ", that is, a change in the feeling of the home key, through a variety of keys or harmonic regions.

African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical motifs in the nineteenth century, when the habanera gained international popularity.

In this last respect their function is analogous to that of Biblical cantillation marks, but unlike these they do not constitute a word-for-word notation of musical motifs.

A wazn is only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic-temporal organization including recurring measures, motifs, and meter or pulse.

His experiments in free rhythm, generated by expanding musical motifs, above all in his truly revolutionary First Piano Sonata of 1909, appear to have exerted an influence on Stravinsky's ' Rite of Spring '.

The band played primarily modern and old-time music, and they introduced him to Eastern musical motifs and themes, as they played quite a bit of Ukrainian folk music.

Performed by many Capoeira groups, samba de roda is a traditional Afro-Brazilian dance & musical form that has been associated with Capoeira for many decades.

The Fender Jazz Bass is often associated with disco bass lines, because the instrument itself has a very prominent " voice " in the musical mix.

In the subsequent months and years, many musical acts associated with disco struggled to get airplay on the radio.

Erik Satie also dabbled with Dadaist ideas during his career, although he is primarily associated with musical Impressionism.

* 1960 – The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway, and would become associated with the Kennedy administration.

The controversy over musical instruments began in 1860, when some congregations introduced organs, traditionally associated with wealthier, denominational churches.

Regarding Schmidt's political naivety, Michael Steinberg, in his magisterial book, The Symphony, tells of Schmidt's recommending Variations on a Hebrew Theme by his student Israel Brandmann to a musical group associated with the proto-Nazi German National Party.

These free arrangements for piano and low or high voice were intended to fit the tastes and musical practices associated with art songs of the time.

However popular musical tastes were being heavily affected by rock and roll and the freedom and youth associated with it, and indeed Elvis Presley made a few films that have been equated with the old musicals in terms of form.

He greatly increased the role and power of the orchestra, creating scores with a complex web of leitmotivs, recurring themes often associated with the characters and concepts of the drama ; and he was prepared to violate accepted musical conventions, such as tonality, in his quest for greater expressivity.

It reached a peak in between 1967 and 1969 with the Summer of Love and Woodstock Rock Festival, becoming an international musical movement and associated with a widespread counter-culture, before beginning a decline as changing attitudes, the loss of some key individuals and a back-to-basics movement, led surviving performers to move into new musical areas.

It is related to several earlier styles of music, has close ties with later styles of music, and was associated with a few musical " fads " of the period such as the foxtrot.

Although samba exists throughout Brazil – especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo – in the form of various popular rhythms and dances that originated from the regional batuque, a type of music and associated dance form from Cape Verde, the samba is most frequently identified as a musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro, where it was born and developed between the end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

In this role, Samuel is associated with the bands of musical ecstatic roaming prophets ( shouters-neb ' im ) at Gibeah, Bethel, and Gilgal, and some traditional scholars have argued that Samuel was the founder of these groups.

Briefly associated with Terry Melcher, Manson had believed that Melcher would foster his musical aspirations ; when this did not occur, Manson felt infuriated and betrayed.

Some individuals associated with the development of grunge, including Sub Pop producer Jack Endino and the Melvins, explained grunge's incorporation of heavy rock influences such as Kiss as " musical provocation ".

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles.

Anglo concertinas are often associated with the music of Ireland, although they are also used in other musical contexts, particularly in music for the English Morris dance and Boeremusiek.

This earliest question mark was a decoration of one of these dots, with the " lightning flash " perhaps meant to denote intonation ( or a tilde or titlo, named after the Latin word titulus, as in “ ·~ ”, like those wavy and more or less slanted marks used in lots of medieval texts for denoting various things such as abbreviations, and that would become later various diacritics or ligatures or modified letters used in the Latin script ), and perhaps associated with early musical notation like neumes.

Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments.

Often the item misplaced in time is an object, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period in time so that it is incorrect to place it outside its proper temporal domain.

Color would quickly come to be associated with the musical genre, and numerous features were released in 1929 and 1930 that either featured color sequences or were filmed entirely in color, movies like On With the Show ( 1929 ), Gold Diggers of Broadway ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), and others.

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that originated in the United States and is associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately 12 to 25 musicians.

Its associated musical style, which has the dancers move their hips in a circular motion.