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Simon Frith. Simon Webster Frith [1] OBE (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. [2] He is Professor Emeritus of Music at University of Edinburgh .
During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of the Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum.
Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music. This discipline has a very long history. Traditional Chinese music can be traced back to around 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic age. The concept of music, called 乐 ( Chinese: 樂; pinyin: yuè ), stands among the oldest categories of Chinese thought; however, in the ...
Apr 1, 2019 · Wikipedia's status as the world's fifth most visited website should nevertheless give music scholars pause. 2 “Aretha Franklin” was the site's most visited page from August 12 to 18, 2018, which should not be surprising given her death on August 16. 3 Over a sixty-day period between July 18 and September 16, 2018, page views for the Queen of Soul...
e. In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks form the Earth's outer solid layer, the crust, and most of its interior, except for the liquid outer core and pockets ...
Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music [1]) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value. [2] It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerations [3] or a written musical tradition. [4] In this context, the terms "serious" or "cultivated" are frequently ...
The history of the punk subculture involves the history of punk rock, the history of various punk ideologies, punk fashion, punk visual art, punk literature, dance, and punk film. Since emerging in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia in the mid-1970s, the punk subculture has spread around the globe and evolved into a number of ...
