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Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains , and among the prairies of Western North America.
Western music may refer to: Western culture § Music, especially: Western classical music; Western music (North America), a form of country music from the Western United States and Old West, including: New Mexico music; Red Dirt (music) Tejano music; Texas country music; Western swing; West Coast blues, USA; Western Music, a Will Oldham EP
Published by Oxford University Press in 2005, it is a six-volume work on the various significant periods of Western music and their characteristic qualities, events and composition styles. A paperback edition in five volumes followed in 2009.
Western music (North America) albums (5 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Western music (North America)" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Sid Feller (left) and Ray Charles in 1962. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music was the 18th overall LP Charles had recorded. [12] According to him, the title of the album was conceived by producer Sid Feller and ABC-Paramount's executives and management people. [13]
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales . Like many musical scales, it is made up of seven notes : the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note (from Latin "octavus", the eighth).
The IWMA stages the International Western Music Festival every November during which it announces winners in categories including Traditional Western Duo/Group of the Year, Traditional Western Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Male and Female Performers of the Year, Entertainer of the Year, etc.