With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

and the dances and songs from the Tatras contain a magnificent dance for the men.

People decorated their homes and trees with paper flags ; there were ritual races, processions, dances, songs, prayers, and finally human sacrifices.

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

They learn songs and dances that originate in the countries their grandparents came from.

Weddings, birthdays and funerals may also be noted with songs, dances and special costumes.

Bihu dances and songs accompanied by traditional drums and wind instruments are essential part of this festival.

They are each distinct beings with their own personal likes and dislikes, distinct sacred rhythms, songs, dances, ritual symbols, and special modes of service.

Bollywood dances usually follow or are choreographed to filmi songs.

These masques contained songs and dances.

It furthered the revolution begun by Show Boat, by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the songs and dances arising out of and further developing the plot and characters.

An enormous diversity of musical styles and genres flourished during the Renaissance, and can be heard on commercial recordings in the 21st century, including masses, motets, madrigals, chansons, accompanied songs, instrumental dances, and many others.

Spirit pacification and rejuvenation were usually achieved by songs and dances, also called asobi.

Often a meal will be prepared of favorite foods of the family's and community's beloved dead, a place set for them at the table, and traditional songs, poetry and dances performed to entertain them.

Like Calderón de la Barca's earlier El golfo de las sirenas ( The Sirens ' Gulf, 1657 ), El Laurel de Apolo mixed mythological verse drama with operatic solos, popular songs and dances.

The elements of the work continue to be the same: sung solos and choruses, spiced with spoken scenes, and comedic songs, ensembles and dances.

Plutarch also states that Spartans treated the Helots " harshly and cruelly ": they compelled them to drink pure wine ( which was considered dangerous – wine usually being cut with water ) "... and to lead them in that condition into their public halls, that the children might see what a sight a drunken man is ; they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs ..." during syssitia ( obligatory banquets ).

Other artifacts of Shaker culture are their spirit drawings, dances, and songs, which are important genres of Shaker folk art.

The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

Some scholars, such as Daniel W. Patterson and Roger Lee Hall, have compiled books of Shaker songs, and groups have been formed to sing the songs and perform the dances.

Twenty-five years prior to the beginning of the opera, Iolanthe, the mistress of fairy revels, who arranged all the fairy dances and songs, committed the capital crime ( under fairy law ) of marrying a mortal human.

What was once a collection of songs, dances and comic turns held together by a tenuous plot became an integrated masterpiece.

These are used to play music from the Mikagura-Uta, a body of music, dances and songs created by Nakayama.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

The player may then be given a chance to play again, depending on the settings of the particular machine ( the limit is usually 3-5 songs per game ).

On certain days of the year, such as Easter, May Day and Christmas, particular songs celebrate the yearly cycle.

In Britain, the Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck as their guitarist, increasingly moved into psychedelic territory, adding up-tempo improvised " rave ups ", Gregorian chant and world music ( in particular Indian ) influences to their songs, including " Still I'm Sad " ( 1965 ) and " Over Under Sideways Down " ( 1966 ), and singles such as " Heart Full of Soul " ( 1965 ), " Shapes of Things " ( 1966 ) and " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " ( 1966 ).

Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, in particular ), with songs by Waits and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story, as would be the case in conventional musical theater.

In particular, Robertson insists he did his best to coax Manuel into writing or co-writing more songs, only to see Manuel's talents overtaken by addiction.

The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork.

Young people, in particular, turned out in large numbers, lighting memorial candles and singing peace songs.

Some are used from particular songs which are familiar.

" As a reaction, many grunge bands diversified their sound, with Nirvana and Tad in particular creating more melodic songs.

Extremely modest about his singing abilities ( he frequently claimed that he could not sing, but the critics rated him as among the finest ), Astaire introduced some of the most celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, in particular, Cole Porter's: " Night and Day " in Gay Divorce ( 1932 ), Irving Berlin's " Isn't This a Lovely Day?

" Sato-Sato " and " Der Mussolini " are both examples of songs written around Delgado-López's fascination with the sound of a particular word.

While the particular musical style of the band is usually as malleable as Merritt's songwriting, its songs are commonly attributed to pop genres and subgenres: synthpop, indie pop, and noise pop.

There was also an Orchestra Version of the soundtrack released on 2001, this particular release has songs that also appear on the OST as well as a couple of new songs.

During the poll's first few years ( 1989 to 1991 ), the eligible songs were not restricted to a particular year.

The Zapatistas are featured prominently in Rage Against the Machine's songs, in particular " People of the Sun ", " Wind Below ", " Zapata's Blood " and " War Within a Breath ".

In particular, he was unhappy that Christian artists were unwilling to play clubs and other secular venues, and he was very put off that artists were not " preaching " between songs and making the Gospel clear — in confrontational terms.

In particular, the use of a heavy, downtuned guitar tone played in clean chords is attributed to Deftones-this appears in songs such as " The Small Print " by Muse and Gallows ' " The Riverbank ".

In this overture he shows how folk songs could be given symphonic dimensions while paying particular attention to the element of protyazhnaya or melismatically elaborated lyric song.

Though Wolf himself was obsessed with the idea that to compose only short forms was to be second-rate, his organization of lyrics of particular poets ( Goethe ; Mörike ; Eichendorff ; Heyse & Geibel in the Spanish and Italian Songbooks ) into semicyclical anthologies, finding connections between texts not explicitly intended by the poets he set and his conceptions of individual songs as dramatic works in miniature, mark him as a talented dramatist despite having written only one not particularly successful opera, Der Corregidor.

Later, they tracked the airplay that songs achieved, for which some cover versions are the more successful recording ( s ) of the particular song ( s ).

Typically, each project has resulted in a collection of the particular artist's best recognised or most highly regarded songs reworked by more current performers.

More rarely, bands will do an entire album of cover songs originally by a particular artist, such as The The's Hanky Panky, which consists entirely of Hank Williams songs, or Booker T. & the M. G.