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This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. Notable earlier harpsichordists mostly appear on the list of Baroque composers . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Harpsichords figure prominently, [2] [3] while oboes, French horns, and string quartets are also common. [3] It emerged in the mid 1960s as artists pursued a majestic, orchestral sound. [ 3 ]
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles became interested in tape loops and found sounds. [36] [37] Early examples of the group sampling existing recordings include loops on "Revolution 9" [37] (the repetitive "number nine" is from a Royal Academy of Music examination tape, some chatter is from a conversation between George Martin and Apple office manager Alistair Taylor, and a chord from a recording of ...
Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986), [1] [2] [3] better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist, singer and composer. [4] Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950s" [5] and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," [6] Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or ...
Bobby Bare is an American outlaw country music singer and songwriter, best known for the songs "Marie Laveau", "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away From Home" and is the father of Bobby Bare Jr., also a musician. Joe Carson, singer started in late 1950s Rockabilly and crossed to country. Died early 1960s.
He resumed performing in 1977 with a semi-private recital at Versailles as well as a public recital at the Frick Collection in New York. He gave one of his last recitals at the first Boston Early Music Festival in 1981. [3] During the 1960s, Kirkpatrick made recordings of the complete harpsichord works of Johann Sebastian Bach (Archiv).
Alan Curtis at home, Florence 2006. Alan Curtis (November 17, 1934 – July 15, 2015) was an American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera.. Born in Mason, Michigan, Curtis graduated from studies at the University of Illinois, and received his PhD in 1960 with a dissertation on the keyboard music of Sweelinck.