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A dirge is a song meant to invoke and express the emotions of grief and mourning that are typical of a funeral. Images of nature are used to symbolize the grief he feels, such as the moaning and wild wind, the sullen clouds, the sad storm, the bare woods, the deep caves, and the dreary main.
The Wind Repertory Project (WRP) is an extensive database documenting and listing wind repertoire—music written for wind instruments. [W 1] Primarily intended for band directors, [1] the site's search is customizable, by composer, demographics, instrumentation, form, style and instrumental solo features. [2]
Robert Houston Bright (January 21, 1916 – December 8, 1970) was a composer of American music, known primarily for his choral works.The best-known of these is an original spiritual "I Hear a Voice A-Prayin'," but he wrote dozens of highly regarded pieces over the course of his career, including a number of instrumental compositions.
Introduction (1:22) Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion, S. 1000. Grand Entrance (1:41) Simply Grand Minuet (2:51) Romance in the Grand Manner (2:37) Rondo Mucho Grando (4:04, including the Crasho Grosso at the beginning of the movement and created by dropping a lot of percussion equipment) Introduction (1:04)
Wind music has two different meanings: Music written for wind instruments; Music produced using the wind (rather than, say, breath). These are chiefly string instruments, such as the Aeolian harp, but some woodwinds are also known. Wind Music can refer to: Wind Music (record label), a Taiwanese music company
Wind measuring has been standardized globally to reflect the winds at 10 metres (33 ft) above mean sea level, [nb 1] and the maximum sustained wind represents the highest average wind over either a one-minute (US) or ten-minute time span (see the definition, below), anywhere within the tropical cyclone. Surface winds are highly variable due to ...
WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is a live audience celebration of grassroots artists and music. Old song are very deep and attractive. The WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is an all-volunteer-run nonbusiness organization and is a worldwide multimedia celebration of grassroots music filmed in front of live audience.
Westron Wynde was put to music by Igor Stravinsky as a movement (Westron Wind) of his Cantata (1952). [citation needed] The American folk group The Limeliters (Louis Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, and Glenn Yarbrough) recorded a version using a variation of the first tune above, with modern English stanzas interpolated. Both the variation and the ...