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6 days ago · Origins. Prehistory. Antiquity. Post-classical era. Early modern and modern periods. 20th and 21st century. References. External links. History of music. Clockwise, from top left: The Seikilos column with the Seikilos epitaph, dated to the 2nd-Century CE or later.
May 22, 2024 · Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Learn about the history of music and about theories of musical meaning since the 19th century.
- Gordon Epperson
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3 days ago · Modern classical music scholar John Warthen Struble has contrasted American and European, concluding that the music of the United States is inherently distinct because the United States has not had centuries of musical evolution as a nation.
4 days ago · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 24, 2024 • Article History. the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Key People: George Gershwin. Bob Dylan. Frank Sinatra. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Related Topics: jazz. rock. nueva canción. rhythm and blues. African popular music. Recent News. May 24, 2024, 5:13 PM ET (AP)
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May 21, 2024 · This new edition of Modern Music and After discusses not only the music of the fifteen years that have passed since the previous edition, but also the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the latter half of the twentieth century.
May 16, 2024 · Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 musical forms.
