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  2. World music - Wikipedia

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    A world music festival is held in New Plymouth, New Zealand, in early March each year, namely the New Zealand location of WOMAD. [62] Nigeria. World Music day is usually celebrated for one week in Lagos, Nigeria at different location around the state. [63] Poland. Poland's Cross-Culture Warsaw Festival is held in September each year. [64]

  3. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The duration (note length or note value) is indicated by the form of the note-head or with the addition of a note-stem plus beams or flags. A stemless hollow oval is a whole note or semibreve, a hollow rectangle or stemless hollow oval with one or two vertical lines on both sides is a double whole note or breve.

  4. World music (term) - Wikipedia

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    Some musicians and curators of music have come to dislike the term "world music". To these critics, "world music" is a parochial, catch-all marketing term for non-Western music of all genres. In October 1999, Luaka Bop label founder and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote an "I Hate World Music" editorial in The New York Times ...

  5. Musical note - Wikipedia

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    Notes in it include a prime symbol below the note's letter. Names of subsequent lower octaves are preceded with "sub". Notes in each include an additional prime symbol below the note's letter. The octave starting at tenor C is called the "small" octave. Notes in it are written as lower case letters, so tenor C itself is written c in Helmholtz ...

  6. Music - Wikipedia

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    When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of the music, such as the notes of a melody, are notated. Music notation often provides instructions on how to perform the music. For example, the sheet music for a song may state the song is a "slow blues" or a "fast swing", which indicates the tempo and the genre.

  7. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical genres within the context of classical music, organized according to the corresponding periods in which they arose or became common.. Various terms can be used to classify a classical music composition, mainly including genre, form, compositional technique and style.

  8. Sub-Saharan African music traditions - Wikipedia

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    The music of the Luo, for another example, is functional, used for ceremonial, religious, political or incidental purposes, during funerals (Tero buru) to praise the departed, to console the bereaved, to keep people awake at night, to express pain and agony and during cleansing and chasing away of spirits, during beer parties (Dudu, ohangla ...

  9. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...