Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The music of Sweden shares roots with its neighbouring countries in Scandinavia, as well as Eastern Europe, including polka, schottische, waltz, polska and mazurka. The Swedish fiddle and nyckelharpa are among the most common Swedish folk instruments. The instrumental genre is the biggest one in Sweden. In the 1960s, Swedish youth sparked a ...
Gustaf Düben (1624–1690), organist of the German Church in Stockholm, Master of the Royal Swedish Court Orchestra, composer; Lars Edlund (1922–2013) John Fernström (1897–1961), born in China of Swedish parents; Gunnar de Frumerie (1908–1987) Harald Fryklöf (1882–1918) Ludwig Göransson, Acamedy-Award winning film score composer ...
Roxette. 75 million [2] Ace of Base. 50 million [3] Avicii. 30 million [4] The Spotnicks. 18 million [3] The Cardigans.
The company was formed following Universal Music Sweden's full ownership acquisition of Lionheart Music Group. The company consists of several record labels as well as operations in music production and publishing, artist management, and live-entertainment production. [1]
e. Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World War II, Swedish pop music was heavily influenced by American jazz, and then by rock-and-roll from the U.S. and the U.K. in the 1950s and 1960s, before developing into dansband music.
See media help. A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical ...
Psalmodikon from Gagnef, Dalarna, Sweden, made in 1869, originally with three strings. Psalmodikon, played at the School Museum in Djurmo, Dalarna, Sweden. The psalmodicon (psalmodikon or salmodikon) is a stringed musical instrument; the most common variants have a single string. It was developed in Scandinavia for simplifying music in churches ...
Pophouse Entertainment is a private entertainment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. [1][2] The company creates, acquires, and develops brands in various related fields, such as music, podcasting, stage performance, and gaming. Pophouse invests in music rights, as well as other types of intellectual property in the entertainment industry.