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4 days ago · Therefore all organ music was initially a recreation of music for voices, strings, or wind instruments — in other words, music that was created by natural means of either breath or drawing a bow across strings. These instruments (and yes, the voice is an instrument) naturally produce phrases, articulations, and the strong/weak effect which is ...
2 days ago · Classical music. A youth orchestra performing. Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics.
2 days ago · Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including; orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works ...
1 day ago · “So, organs the size of, say, a China cabinet that organists can use at home to practice on.” The fabricator “gradually worked up a reputation” via word of mouth. “And then eventually the first church organ was signed, and then another one, and then another one,” Ross said.
5 days ago · The Amsterdam Organ Summer is a successful summer concert series of weekly organ concerts, founded in 2001 by music director and Basilica organist Michael Hedley. Although the organ in the Basilica was built according to the ideas of the Romantic era and naturally lends itself to music from this style period, the organists also play organ music ...
2 days ago · Kenneth Danchik. MUS 0513 — Organ. Kenneth Danchik has over 40 years’ experience as a successful organist and celebrated church musician, which affords him unique insight when instructing organists in the musical art of organ performance. A frequent visitor to the organ lofts of Paris, he is particularly interested in organ music of the ...
3 days ago · t. e. Byzantine music ( Greek: Βυζαντινή μουσική, romanized : Vyzantiné mousiké) originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of Eastern Orthodox liturgy.
