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  2. Iris DeMent - Wikipedia

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    Iris DeMent at Old Settler's Music Festival – Driftwood, Texas, 2007 She sang four duets with John Prine on his 1999 album In Spite of Ourselves , including the title track. [ 11 ] She appeared in the 2000 film Songcatcher , playing the character Rose Gentry and singing on the soundtrack as well.

  3. 13 greatest movie lines you didn’t know were improvised - AOL

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    He made people cry with laughter multiple times in this film." For example, Gosling also improvised the moment where Ken wears two pairs of glasses at once. Show comments

  4. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]

  5. Lullaby - Wikipedia

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    Lullabies typically soothe people through the awake/sleep transition, and similarly can soothe people through the life/death transition. Music therapists have called these tunes "lullaments", that which sustain the spirit, support psychological structure, and enable resilience during times of vulnerability to the effects of adversity.

  6. Musical expression - Wikipedia

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    The same music could be associated with a wide range of emotional responses in the listener. Chabanon rejected the rhetorical approach to music, because he did not believe that there was a simple correspondence between musical characteristics and emotional affects. Much subsequent philosophy of music depended on Chabanon's views. [9]

  7. Ancient music - Wikipedia

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    The music of ancient Rome borrowed heavily from the music of the cultures that were conquered by the empire, including music of Greece, Egypt, and Persia. Music accompanied many areas of Roman life; including the military, entertainment in the Roman theater, religious ceremonies and practices, and almost all public/civic occasions.

  8. Vocalese - Wikipedia

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    Vocalese uses recognizable lyrics that are sung to pre-existing instrumental solos, as opposed to scat singing, which uses nonsense words such as "bap ba dee dot bwee dee" in solos. [1]

  9. History of music - Wikipedia

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    "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."