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In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, [1] the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti, with whom "modern opera begins". [2] Francesco Provenzale is generally considered the school's founder. [3]
The cavatina " Se vuol ballare" is an aria for bass from the first act of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784).
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, based in Italy. It is based at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and was founded by the papal bull, Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant ...
Some universities, although they do not have a separate school of music, have music departments and offer music majors or concentrations. Such universities include Harvard , [ 5 ] Columbia , [ 6 ] Princeton , [ 7 ] and Brown , [ 8 ] as Yale is the only Ivy League university with a separate music school.
Manhattan School of Music was founded between 1917 and 1918 by the pianist and philanthropist Janet D. Schenck. It was initially known as the "Neighborhood Music School". Initially located at the Union Settlement Association on East 104th Street in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood, the school moved into a brownstone building at East 105th ...
Chetham's School of Music: Manchester: 8-18 1969 The Purcell School for Young Musicians: Bushey: 9-18 1962 Yehudi Menuhin School: Stoke d'Abernon: 8-19 1963 Wells Cathedral School: Wells, Somerset: 3-18 909 Royal College of Music: London: Tertiary 1883 Royal Academy of Music: London: Tertiary 1822 Guildhall School of Music and Drama: London ...
A musician who plays any instrument with a keyboard. In Classical music, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and so on. In a jazz or popular music context, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, and so on. Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger.)
Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams walking in the Malvern Hills, September 1921. The English Pastoral School, [1] sometimes called the English Nationalist School [2] or by detractors the Cow Pat School, [3] is an informal designation for a group of English composers of classical music working during the early to mid 20th century, who sought to build a distinctively English style of music ...