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1500: estimated – John Browne, English composer of music from the Eton Choirbook (born c. 1453) [16] 1501: February 17 – Stephan Plannck, German music printer active in Italy (born c. 1457) 1505 date unknown – Adam of Fulda, German composer and theoretician (born c. 1445; plague) [17]
The birth of soul music occurred during the 1950s, and the genre would come to dominate the US R&B charts by the early 1960s. Soul artists of the 1950s include Sam Cooke and James Brown. [8] Jazz music was revolutionized during the 1950s with the rise of bebop, hard bop, modal jazz, and cool jazz.
A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
This is a list of classical music composers by era. [1] [2] [3] [4] With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern ...
The musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music; with country and western and Pop. [8]
Ancient music – Early history – 1500s – 1510s – 1520s – 1530s – 1540s – 1550s ... Early history; List of popular music genres; ... 1950 in music, 1950 ...
Date ranges of classical music eras are therefore somewhat arbitrary, and are only intended as approximate guides. Scholars of music history do not agree on the start and end dates, and in many cases disagree whether particular years should be chosen at all. The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time.
Willi Apel and Archibald T. Davison begin publishing the Historical Anthology of Music, which has remained one of the standard pedagogical works on early music since its publication. [147] Arthur Godfrey Time, a television show that presents amateur entertainers, begins broadcasting. It is the most popular and influential amateur performance ...