Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

Lassus is one of the composers of a style known as musica reservata — a term which has survived in many contemporary references, many of them seemingly contradictory.

Another important music style is musica norteña, from northern Mexico, which has been the basis for such sub-genres as musica de banda.

Opera seria ( plural: opere serie ; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio ) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and " serious " style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770.

In music history, musica reservata ( also musica secreta ) is either a style or a performance practice in a cappella vocal music of the latter half of the 16th century, mainly in Italy and southern Germany, involving refinement, exclusivity, and intense emotional expression of sung text.

Composers in the style of musica reservata included Nicola Vicentino, who wrote about it in his L ' antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ( 1555 ); Philippe de Monte, the prolific composer of madrigals who mainly worked in Vienna ; and above all, Orlande de Lassus, the renowned and versatile composer working in Munich whose Prophetiae Sibyllarum, probably written in the 1560s, may represent the peak of development of the style.

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He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style / ethos known as musica reservata.

Much of Pari's music is in the manneristic style which was characteristic of the transformation of Renaissance into Baroque, and in addition conforms closely to the idea of musica reservata: music of intense expressiveness, careful text setting, and elaborate contrapuntal techniques, most likely intended for an audience of connoisseurs.

Within the cycle he uses techniques he learned early in his career as a composer of secular madrigals ; chromaticism related to his much earlier musica reservata masterpiece Prophetiae Sibyllarum ; and the concise, refined, almost austere language he developed late in his career, related to the Palestrina style, in which no note is superfluous.

Musica reservata is either a style or a performance practice in a cappella vocal music of the latter, mainly in Italy and southern Germany, involving refinement, exclusivity, and intense emotional expression of sung text.

It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

he wore his clothes with style.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

Contrary to popular opinion, `` a la mode '' doesn't mean `` with ice cream '' -- it just means, in the latest style.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

As a matter of fact you could probably find a new home development in every populated county in the country with three-bedroom ranch style cottages in the $14,000 range.

Quite other feelings are evidenced by this style: Af Note the drop to pitch 1 ( the lowest ) on mother with no rise at the end of the sentence ; ;

A few newer homes have Western flush toilets, but even with running water, they are usually Eastern style.

It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.

It is the year when ( 1 ) amiable Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles ambled to the plate in consecutive innings with the bases loaded and, in unprecedented style, delivered consecutive grand-slam home runs ; ;

It got the kind of scrambled, coarsened performance that can happen to best of orchestras when the man with the baton lacks technique and style.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Music rap, relatively recent style in Algeria, is experiencing significant growth with the emergence of groups such as MBS, Double Barrel, Intik Hamma Boys.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

The statue throws some light on an artistic centre which, with an independently developed harder, simpler, and heavier style, restricts Ionian influence in Athens.

The focus of novelty in this world now lay in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland, and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean, always excepting its northern shores, had accepted the Geometric style of pottery.

Each has its peculiar style.

In a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son ( who left as a youth ) never did -- the sound of the composer's mature style.

How far that pedimented and pillared style has shed its influence Mr. Sansom reminds us thus:

Finally, the staïfi music is born in Sétif and remains a unique style of its kind.

Versailles found its stately mirror in the powerful idea of classicism – a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.

Under the strictest definition, an argot is a proper language, with its own grammar and style.

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

In 2005, owner Arthur Blank's $ 10 million investment in the facility's upgrade gave the players a more relaxing environment and, introduced its players to a training-camp style unlike few in the NFL had seen before.

Each of these centers of early civilization developed a unique and characteristic style in its art.

Limited possibilities have been explored by artists as an outlet to artistic expression, and has been cultivated to become a positive style and tradition, emphasizing the decorative function of art, or its religious functions via non-representational forms such as Geometric patterns, floral patterns, and arabesques.

The United States ' regional cuisines are characterized by its extreme diversity and style with each region having its own distinctive cuisine.

The style of New England cookery originated from its colonial roots, that is to say practical, frugal and willing to eat anything other than what they were used to from their British roots.

* A " Dreadnought ", arguably the most common body style, incorporates a deeper soundbox, but a smaller and less-pronounced upper bout ( the area of the soundbox between the waist and neck ) than most styles, giving a somewhat wedge-shaped appearance – hence its name, relating to a class of warship.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The chief magistracy of Aargau changed its style repeatedly:

Laurents, ignoring criticism about the show's message being trite and its absurdist style difficult to comprehend, poured his energies into restaging rather than dealing with the crux of the problem.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

Each of the national governments based in Berlin — the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany — initiated ambitious ( re -) construction programs, with each adding its own distinctive style to the city's architecture.

Thus the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.

In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.