When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of music - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music

    "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."

  3. Antonio Cavallucci - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Cavallucci

    His painting, The Origin of Music (1786), was based on illustrations in the book Iconologia (1593) from Cesare Ripa. [citation needed] Cavallucci also received commissions from Cardinal Romualdo Braschi-Onesti (1753–1817), nephew of the pope Pius VI. He painted the portraits of his new benefactor and of the pope in 1788. [citation needed]

  4. Music - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music

    Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [ 4 ] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [ 5 ]

  5. Antonio Vivaldi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi [n 2] (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. [4] Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks amongst the greatest Baroque composers and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.

  6. Music history of Italy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history_of_Italy

    In 1559, Antonio Gardano published Musica nova, whose politically pro-republican partisan songs pleased the northern Italian republics and riled the Church. [9] In 1562/1563, the third portion of the Council of Trent addressed issues of music in the Church. Most paraliturgical music, including all but four Sequences were banned. An outright ban ...

  7. Music history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_history

    Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music (e.g., the history of Nigerian music or the history of rock); in practice ...

  8. The Adventures of Pinocchio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio

    In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part. In February 1883, the story was published in a single book with huge success. [1] Children's literature was a new idea in Collodi's time, an innovation in the 19th century.

  9. Musical notation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation

    This is the beginning of the Prelude from the Suite for Lute in G minor, BWV 995 (transcription of Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011). Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given ...