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  2. History of music - Wikipedia

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    "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."

  3. 1870s in music - Wikipedia

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    As in later decades, the 1870s saw many songs which were designed to get the listeners to support a certain political point of view or perspective. This was the dawn of a new musical genre which has been influencing a good deal of music in the modern world as well. The big things which inspired protests in this time were prohibiting alcohol ...

  4. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term: the "rudiments" needed to understanding music notation (i.e., key signatures, time signatures, rhythmic notation); scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; and a sub-topic of musicology that ...

  5. Oral History of American Music - Wikipedia

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    Oral History of American Music (OHAM), founded in 1969, is an oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings consisting mainly of interviews with American classical and jazz musicians. [1] It is a special collection of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University and housed within the Sterling Memorial Library building ...

  6. J. Peter Burkholder - Wikipedia

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    A History of Western Music is an English-language general survey of music history used at colleges and universities around the world. Burkholder thoroughly revised the narrative to emphasize the people who made and heard the music and what they valued in it and to include more music from the Americas, more by women and African Americans, and ...

  7. Oxford History of Western Music - Wikipedia

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    978-0-19-516979-9. The Oxford History of Western Music is a narrative history from the "earliest notations " (taken to be around the eighth century) to the late twentieth century. It was written by the American musicologist Richard Taruskin. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005, it is a six-volume work on the various significant periods ...

  8. Music history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Music of theUnited States. Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. The history began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America.

  9. 1870 in music - Wikipedia

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    September – Siege of Paris (1870–71) begins: Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns are among those enrolled in the National Guard for defence of the city. Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels established in the United States by Michael B. Leavitt. Richard Wagner nears completion of his opera Siegfried.

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