From historical accounts it is clear that the power to move people has always been attributed to music; its ecstatic possibilities have been recognized in all cultures and have usually been admitted in practice under particular conditions, sometimes stringent ones. In India, music has been put into...
in most Western music,harmony. Both the simplefolk songand the complexelectronic compositionbelong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both areconceptualand auditory, and these factors have been present in music of all styles and in all periods of history, throughout the wo...
A.It dates back to ancient Rome.B.It is celebrated for two weeks.C.It is a large and impressive festival.D.It attracts fewer people than China's parades.【2】What is the Sambadrome designed forA.The grand parade. B.Sports events.C.The costume show. D.Samba schools.【3】What's the...
Persian classical music dates to the sixth century BC; during the time of the Achaemenid Empire (550-331 B.C.), music played an important role in prayer and in royal and national events. But Persian music had its zenith during the Sassanid dynasty from 224 until 651 AD. In this era, ...
musicis one of the30arts. people probably started to sing as soon as31developed. hunting tools struck together may have been the firstmusical32.by about 10,000 b. c., hollow bones had been used by33people to make flutes. the first writtenmusicdates from about 2500 b.c. ...
It dates from the fifteenth century (no later than 1485, the death of its author, and probably from the 1470s) but was not found until 1966 or 1968. Il Cantilena is a poem attributed to one Petrus (or Pietrus or Pietro or Pietru or Peter) Caxaro. It was recorded by Caxaro's ...
July 21:Tony Bennett(born Anthony Dominick Benedetto), a quintessential interpreter of the American songbook and other musical standards over a career of more than 70 years, performing concert and club dates, making more than 150 recordings, who joined other entertainers to participate in the Selma...
Music exists in almost every society, has universal acoustic features, and is processed by distinct neural circuits in humans even with no experience of musical training. However, it remains unclear how these innate characteristics emerge and what functi
Department are based on an integrated approach to the study of music, encompassing a number of perspectives: Music as a technical discipline, with its own notation, materials and forms. Music as an artifact of different historical periods, cultures and societies, both Western and non-Western, in...
care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International in its focus and pleasantly wide-ranging across historical periods, the Handbook is accessible to students but full of material of interest to those teaching and researching in the field."...