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Jul 24, 2017 · In the latter half of the 20th century, Early music revivalism had its fair share of proponents, who ensured that the movement went from the fringes to the mainstream of concert repertoire. The conductor Christopher Hogwood formed his own Academy of Ancient Music, a Cambridge-based ensemble that specialises in the historically-informed ...
Feb 27, 2019 · The most significant Celtic Revival took place in Ireland toward the end of the 19th century and into the first two decades of the 20th century. It is commonly referred to as the Irish Revival, though it has also been considered a Celtic revival in Ireland that had associations with revival movements in Scotland, Wales, the English regions, and ...
Neoclassicism in music is a 20th-century movement; in this case it is the Classical and Baroque musical styles of the 17th and 18th centuries, with their fondness for Greek and Roman themes, that were being revived, not the music of the ancient world itself. (The early 20th century had not yet distinguished the Baroque period in music, on which ...
May 2, 2011 · Parker’s music is rarely performed today and exhibits Teutonic rather than American tendencies, yet his influence through his teaching of such noted composers as Douglas Moore (1892–1969), Quincy Porter (1897–1966), and the quixotic Charles Ives (1874–1954), indirectly makes him the father of twentieth-century American choral music.
A French composer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known for his free rhythms and indefinite keys. His music is often compared to the paintings of the impressionists. The piano piece "Claire de lune" ("Moonlight") and the orchestra piece La Mer (The Sea) are two of his best-known works.
Abstract. This is a description of a sound, a poetics, and a political stance in the United States of America during a turbulent century and a half written by someone who grew up in the social milieu described. It endeavors to trace some of the historical and literary roots of 20th-century protest music and discusses the political and musical ...
On the Twentieth Century has been nominated for several awards including Outstanding Director of a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Warren Carlyle, Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Drama Desk ...
