Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues.

Western musical notation was originally created to preserve the lines of Gregorian chant, which before its invention was taught as an oral tradition in monastic communities.

The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.

Many reasons have been cited for the obscurity of Western classical music in India, a country rich in its musical heritage by its own right, however the two main reasons are an utter lack of exposure and a passive disinterest in what is considered esoteric at best.

Also, the difficulty in importing Western musical instruments and their rarity has also contributed to the obscurity of classical Western music.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, that eventually became the basis for Western religious and classical music.

The 1930s through the 1960s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in the Western world.

In the 2000s, Bollywood musicals played an instrumental role in the revival of the musical film genre in the Western world.

Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, culminating with the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America.

Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

The twelve notes of the Western musical scale are laid out with the lowest note on the left ;

Notes are the " atoms " of much Western music: discretizations of musical phenomena that facilitate performance, comprehension, and analysis.

They enforce Muslim dietary laws, prohibit the consumption or sale of alcoholic beverages and pork, and seize banned consumer products and media regarded as un-Islamic, such as CDs / DVDs of various Western musical groups, television shows and film.

The title of the work is ironic, nodding toward " overture " as a musical form, noting that the initiatives of the Western powers for commercial exploitation of the Pacific nation were anything but " pacific " overtures.

During and after the Second World War there were scattered European uses of Western settings, mostly for comedy or even musical comedy.

Some Italian Western films were made as vehicles for musical stars, like Ferdinando Baldi's Rita of the West featuring Rita Pavone and Terence Hill.

St Gall is noted as an early user of neume, the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.

Category: Western Australian musical groups

* Hildegard of Bingen, Saint, polymath and first Western musical composer known by name

Descriptions and definitions of harmony and harmonic practice may show bias towards European ( or Western ) musical traditions.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

The word in English can mean either " including a wide variety of things ; all-embracing " or " of the Roman Catholic faith " as " relating to the historic doctrine and practice of the Western Church.

As Western governments became more aware of the practice, legislation was passed to make it a criminal offence, though enforcement may be a low priority.

Others who practice feminist spirituality may instead adhere to a feminist re-interpretation of Western monotheistic traditions.

Jewellery can also be symbolic of group membership, as in the case of the Christian crucifix or Jewish Star of David, or of status, as in the case of chains of office, or the Western practice of married people wearing a wedding ring.

The primary paradigm of contemporary mainstream Western psychiatry is said to be the biopsychosocial model which incorporates biological, psychological and social factors, although this may not always be applied in practice.

With the continual discovery of " new " Medieval and Renaissance fighting manuals, the practice of Historical European Martial Arts and other Western Martial Arts are growing in popularity across the United States and Europe.

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

In practice, these research topics are more often considered within ethnomusicology ( see below ) and " historical musicology " is assumed to imply Western Art music.

The practice of discant over a cantus firmus marked the beginnings of counterpoint in Western music.

As part of the debate over further introduction of OBE into the teaching practice of Western Australia, various groups of concerned citizens and those in the teaching profession formed various single-issue lobby and action groups to progress their viewpoints.

As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western tradition.

Roman law thus served as a basis for legal practice throughout Western continental Europe, as well as in most former colonies of these European nations, including Latin America, and also in Ethiopia.

The idea that all Buddhists, especially monks and nuns practice vegetarianism is a Western misperception.

Non-penetrative sex includes practices such as kissing, mutual masturbation, rubbing or stroking and, according to the Health Department of Western Australia, this sexual practice may prevent pregnancy and most STIs.

The modern Western military salute evolved from the practice of men raising their hats as a gesture of respect.

This ritual is still practiced widely among rural Chinese, however young people in larger cities, as well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, tend to practice a more Western style of marriage.

Evidence suggests the goal of this practice was to ensure the continuity of cultural and religious practices ; in contrast to the Western idea of extending family lines.

Yet the evolution of harmonic practice and language itself, in Western art music, is and was facilitated by this process of prior composition ( which permitted the study and analysis by theorists and composers alike of individual pre-constructed works in which pitches ( and to some extent rhythms ) remained unchanged regardless of the nature of the performance ).

While this practice is common among a wide spectrum of Western denominations ( Eastern Churches do not employ instrumental accompaniment in their worship ) it is particularly typical, and distinctive to the heritage of the Moravian Church.

The practice of enslaving enemy combatants and their villages was widespread throughout Western and West Central Africa, although wars were rarely started to procure slaves.

* Action ( theatre ), a principle in Western theatre practice first developed by Konstantin Stanislavski as part of his System of acting training

Such an act of toleration was unusual in Western Europe, where standard practice forced subjects to follow the religion of their ruler — the application of the principle of cuius regio, eius religio.

Indeed, Western cultures have continued the practice of geophagy, but only under the guise of vitamins and minerals.