Music history

The Burgundian School is a term used to denote a group of composers active in the 15th century in what is now eastern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, centered on the court of the Dukes of Burgundy. The main names associated with this school are Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, and Antoine Busnois. The Burgundian School was the first phase of activity of the Franco-Flemish School, the central musical practice of the Renaissance in Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burgundian School"

Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Christian parts of the population after the fall of the empire to the rule of the Ottoman Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Byzantine music"

Censorship of music, the practice of censoring music from the public, may take the form of partial or total censorship with the latter banning the music entirely. The music in question may be a song, or part thereof, a collection of songs (such as a particular album) or a genre of music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Censorship of music"

Cheironomy is the use of hand signals to direct vocal music performance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheironomy"

In music, a chorale prelude is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant form of the German Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works of J.S. Bach, who wrote 45 examples of the form in his Orgel-Büchlein. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chorale prelude"

A chorale setting is any of a very wide variety of musical compositions, almost entirely of Protestant origin, which use a chorale as their basis. They are vocal, instrumental, or both. Although the bulk of them are German in origin, and predominantly Baroque in time period, chorale settings also exist from other countries and times. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chorale setting"

The classic female blues spanned from 1920 to 1929 with its peak from 1923 to 1925. The most popular of these singers were Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ethel Waters, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Clara Smith, Edith Wilson, Trixie Smith, Lucille Hegimen and Bertha “Chippie” Hill. Hundreds of others recorded including Lizzie Miles, Sara Martin, Rosa Henderson, Martha Copeland, Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan), Edith Johnson, Katherine Baker, Margaret Johnson, Hattie Burleson, Madlyn Davis, Ivy Smith, Alberta Brown, Gladys Bentley, Billie and Ida Goodson, Fannie May Goosby, Bernice Edwards and Florence Mills. ...more on Wikipedia about "Classic female blues"

The Classical period in Western music occurred from about 1730 and 1820, but there was considerable overlap at both ends with preceding and following periods, as is true for all musical eras. Although the term classical music is used as a blanket term meaning all kinds of music in this tradition, it can also occasionally mean this particular era within that tradition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Classical music era"

In medieval music, conductus is a type of liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices. The word derives from Latin conducere (to escort), and the conductus was most likely sung while the lectionary was carried from its place of safekeeping to the place from which it was to be read. The conductus was one of the principal types of vocal composition of the ars antiqua period of medieval music history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conductus"

The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They are dated c. 138 BC and 128 BC. The earlier of them, the First Delphic Hymn, is the earliest unambiguous surviving example of notated music from anywhere in the western world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Delphic Hymns"

In music, the Dutch School refers, somewhat imprecisely, to the style of polyphonic vocal music composition in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. The composers of this time and place, and the music they produced, are also known as the Netherlands School. Other frequently used terms for the composers are Franco-Flemish or Netherlandish. See Renaissance music for a more detailed description of the musical style, and links to individual composers from this time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dutch School (music)"

Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords, actual or implied, in music. It is sometimes referred to as the "vertical" aspect of music, with melody being the "horizontal" aspect. Very often, harmony is a result of counterpoint or polyphony, several melodic lines or motifs being played at once, though harmony may control the counterpoint. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harmony"

The history of hip hop music begins in the early 1970s in New York City, and continues till this day. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of hip hop music"

Music has a long and complex history. It may predate language (and certainly predates the written word) and is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of music"

The history of Western music is closely tied to the history of Western classical music and includes many popular and folk traditions: ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Western music"

In Nomine was a title given to a number of short pieces of polyphonic instrumental music in England during the 16th and 17th centuries based on the plainsong melody Gloria Tibi Trinitas. ...more on Wikipedia about "In Nomine"

Jason Benjamin Grant is a respected musical historian, most known for his work uncovering lost music by Telemann and Bach. During the 1990s, Jason Grant was known as an accomplished organist, with a special talent for Baroque music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jason Grant"

Jubilee quartets were popular African-American religious musical groups in the first half of the twentieth century. The name derives from the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, a group of male singers organized by students at Fisk University in 1905 to sing Negro spirituals, which had typically been sung by mixed choirs before then. Students at other historically black schools, such as Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute and Wilberforce University, followed suit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jubilee quartet"

The Magnus Liber or Magnus Liber Organi (Latin for "Great Book of Organum") is a compilation of the medieval music known as organum. Written during the 12th and early 13th centuries, this series of compositions is attributed to masters of the Notre Dame school of music, most notably Leonin and his successor Perotin. (These names survive today because of the testimony of University of Paris student known simply as Anonymous IV.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Magnus Liber"

Malcolm Dome is an English writer/journalist on metal since ( 1979). In addition to writing books, he has been a journalist for among others Record Mirror, Kerrang! and Metal Hammer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Malcolm Dome"

Mensural notation is the musical notation system which was used from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mensural notation"

In poetry, monody is a poem in which one person laments another's death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monody"

This article is about the academic field of music history. For an overview of music, see history of music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music history"

Information about music education during this period is known thanks to manuscripts such as the Notebook of László Szalkai, Jacobus de Liège's Speculum musicae (circa 1330- 1340, which mentions the use of solmization ), the Hahót Codex, the Codex Albensis and the Sacramentarium of Zagreb. The Pray Codex is a collection of "liturgical melodies ... in neumatic notation ... containing among other things the earliest written record extant of the Hungarian language, the Funeral Oration, ... independent forms of notation and even independent melodies (Hymn to Mary)" . ...more on Wikipedia about "Music history of Hungary"

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