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1 day ago · Some of the pioneers of electronic music include Walter Carlos, who gained fame for his album “Switched-On Bach,” which featured classical music pieces played on a synthesizer. Another pioneer is Isao Tomita, a Japanese composer known for his synthesizer arrangements of classical music and his use of electronic sounds in film scores.
4 days ago · But in return, we should embrace this six-decade playing Frenchman as one of the true music pioneers of our time, a man who once declared that "electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century". Nous t'aimons! Jean Michel-Jarre in four tracks 1.
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3 days ago · A house rhythm played on a Roland TR-909 drum machine, featuring a four-on-the-floor bass drum plus cymbal, claps, hi-hats and rimshots. In its most typical form, the genre is characterized by repetitive 4/4 rhythms including bass drums, off-beat hi-hats, snare drums, claps, and/or snaps at a tempo of between 120 and 130 beats per minute (bpm); synthesizer riffs; deep basslines; and often, but ...
3 days ago · This shift forced the music industry to adapt and find new revenue streams. 12 Digital music sales surpassed physical sales for the first time in history, marking a turning point in how people consumed music. 13 Record stores, once the heart of music discovery, began to close, signaling the end of an era.
4 days ago · The History of Classical Music works best as a supplement within a fine arts course for high school. Watching the lectures, concert, and supplemental videos and taking quizzes can be completed in fewer than five hours. Optional listening can add more hours to the course, but it still doesn’t provide enough hours for more than a supplemental role.
2 days ago · Rock. Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from ...
4 days ago · Jazz pianist Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller was born 120 years ago today in 1904. Waller grew up in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and eventually studied composition at Julliard School. His innovative playing set the stage for modern jazz piano, and he wrote hundreds of songs, including “Aint’ Misbehavin’” and “Honeysuckle ...
