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Marie-France Dufour or Marie (8 August 1949 – 18 October 1990) was a French singer. She made her hit Soleil in 1971, but she is probably best known for representing Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 in Luxembourg by song " Un train qui part ".
Maison de la Radio seen from the air in 2009. Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ də la ʁadjo e də la myzik]), nicknamed “maison ronde” (“the round house”) is the headquarters of Radio France. It is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
The channel was launched by Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) in 1954 as La Chaîne Haute-Fidélité, then renamed in 1958 as France IV Haute Fidélité, as RTF Haute Fidélité in 1963, and finally as France Musique later in the same year. It was known between 1999 and 2005 as France Musiques.
Radio Classique was launched in January 1983 by Pierre Amalou, led by former producers of France Musique. At its inception, it appealed for contributions from its listeners who - in exchange for a subscription - received the detailed program of the station.
France Télévisions planned for Festival to be renamed "France 8" (as it would have been the eighth television network in France) or "France Prime", but opted instead for France 4 after being allocated to channel 14. The newly created France 4 proposed to present a variety of entertainment, sports, fiction, cinema and series.
La Revue Musicale: L'œuvre du XXe siècle, no. 212: 65–76. Schaeffer, Pierre (1967). La musique concrète. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Vella, Richard (2000). Musical Environments: A Manual for Listening, Improvising and Composing, with additional topics by Andy Arthurs. Sydney: Currency Press. ISBN 978-0-86819-544-5. Reprinted ...
French electronic music is a panorama of French music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production.. Notable early French artists and composers in electronic music include Maurice Martenot, the inventor of the Ondes Martenot in 1928, and Pierre Schaeffer, the developer of the musique concrète in 1948.
Classical music, including that from France is largely distinguished from many other non-European and popular musical forms by its system of staff notation, in use since about the 16th century. [2] Western staff notation is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitch , speed , meter , individual rhythms and exact execution of a ...