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Monty Python member Eric Idle releases the Monty Python musical Spamalot; Elton John's musical adaptation of the British drama film Billy Elliot, which features the song "Electricity" Bob Gaudio's biopic Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys; Debuts by: Bullet for My Valentine's The Poison
Date ranges of classical music eras are therefore somewhat arbitrary, and are only intended as approximate guides. Scholars of music history do not agree on the start and end dates, and in many cases disagree whether particular years should be chosen at all. The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time.
Early music – generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music.
In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Timeline of progressive rock; Timeline of progressive rock (1960–1969) Timeline of progressive rock (1970–1979) Timeline of progressive rock (1980–1989) Timeline of progressive rock (1990–1999) Timeline of progressive rock (2000–2009) Timeline of progressive rock (2010–2019) Timeline of progressive rock (2020–2029) Timeline of ...
The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."