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22 hours ago · By the Renaissance, the adjective had acquired a more general meaning: an entry in Randle Cotgrave's 1611 A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues is among the earliest extant definitions, translating classique as "classical, formall , orderlie, in due or fit ranke; also, approved, authenticall, chiefe, principall".
3 days ago · Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...
May 3, 2024 · The Basics. The following will be your go-to essentials when talking about any sort of music in French. La musique — music. Le musicien / La musicienne — the musician (masculine/feminine) Le groupe — the band. Chanter — to sing. Le chanteur / La chanteuse — the singer (masculine/feminine) Le chant — singing. La chanson — a song.
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5 days ago · Early alphabets. The International Phonetic Association was founded in Paris in 1886 under the name Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon (The Phonetic Teachers' Association), a development of L'Association phonétique des professeurs d'Anglais ("The English Teachers' Phonetic Association"), to promote an international phonetic alphabet, designed primarily for English, French, and German, for use ...
Apr 26, 2024 · The second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, known as OED2, was published in 20 volumes in 1989 by the Oxford University Press. Its coeditors were John A. Simpson and Edmund S.C. Weiner. The second edition includes in one alphabetical sequence all the words defined in the original 12-volume OED and the 5 supplementary volumes.
1 day ago · Guide de la musique classique, de l'opéra et de la danse à New York. The Orchestra of St. Luke’s concludes its 2023–2024 series with a glorious evening of Brahms choral works. The program opens with the first-ever Carnegie Hall performance of Brahms’s Begräbnisgesang, a short and deeply personal early work, likely written in ...
