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Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks): early music ensemble; Collegium 419: early music vocal ensemble; Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová): early music ensemble; Musica Florea (Marek Štryncl): early music ensemble; Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony
"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."
Jazz quickly replaced the blues as American popular music, in the form of big band swing, a kind of dance music from the early 1930s. Swing used large ensembles, and was not generally improvised, in contrast with the free-flowing form of other kinds of jazz.
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. [27] [28]
The American Wind Band: A Cultural History. GIA Publications. ISBN 1-57999-467-9. Hester, Karlton E. (2004). Bigotry and the Afrocentric Jazz Evolution. Global Academic Publishing. ISBN 1-58684-228-5. Klitz, Brian (June 1989). "Blacks and Pre-Jazz Instrumental Music in America". International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. 20 (1).
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The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band "P Block". Instruments have been frequently used on the battlefield (for example the Iron Age carnyx and the medieval Ottoman military band [1]) but the modern marching band developed from European military bands formed in the Baroque period, partly influenced by the Ottoman tradition.