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Contemporary classical music - Modernism. Main article: Modernism (music) Many of the key figures of the high modern movement are alive, or only recently deceased and there is also still an extremely active core of composers, performers and listeners who continue to advance the ideas and forms of Modernism. Elliot Carter is still active, for example, as is Lukas Foss. While high modernist schools of composing, such as serialism are no longer as rhetorically central, the contemporary period is beginning the process of sorti ...

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Most of Porta's output is sacred music, especially motets. He published at least eight books of motets, one of which is lost, as well as books of masses, introits, and a huge cycle of hymns for Vespers. Porta's music is even more polyphonic than that of Gombert, and he showed a liking for academic, even severe contrapuntal devices, although they are used so skillfully that the text can always be clearly understood. Often his music uses strict canons; one motet from his book of 52 motets from 1580, in seven voices, has no less than fou ...

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Cacophony (from the Greek word kakophonia - kakos (bad) + phoni (voice, sound)) refers to sound that is harsh and unpleasant-sounding. The opposite of cacophony is euphony, meaning musical and pleasant. The closely related term dissonance implies a combination of sounds which clash; its antonym, harmony, suggests sounds that fit together well. Dissonance and harmony have musical connotations whereas cacophony and euphony more often refer to speech. Category: English language

Counterpoint is a musical technique involving the simultaneous sounding of separate musical lines. It is especially prominent in Western music. In all eras, writing of counterpoint has been subject to rules, sometimes strict. Counterpoint written before approximately 1600 is usually known as polyphony. The term comes from the Latin punctus contra punctum ("note against note"). The adjectival form contrapuntal shows this Latin source more transparently. By definition, chords occur when multiple notes sound s ...

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• Counterpoint - Species counterpoint
• Counterpoint - Considerations for all species
• Counterpoint - First species
• Counterpoint - Second species
• Counterpoint - Third species
• Counterpoint - Fourth species
• Counterpoint - Florid counterpoint
• Counterpoint - General notes
• Counterpoint - Contrapuntal derivations
• Counterpoint - Dissonant counterpoint

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Vincenzo Galilei (1520 – July 2, 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei. He was born around 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte (near Florence) and died in Florence. He was a seminal figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance, and contributed significantly to the musical revolution which demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. Galilei was a skilled player of the lute, and early in life attracted the attention of powerful, well-connected patrons ...

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Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer. His work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. During his long life he produced work that can be classified in both categories, and he was one of the most significant revolutionaries that brought about the change in style. Monteverdi wrote the earliest dramatically viable opera, Orfeo, and was fortunate enough to enjoy fame during his lifetime. Claudio Monteverdi - Life and wor ...

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The Air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the very late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650. From approximately 1610 to 1635, during the reign of Louis XIII, this was the predominant form of secular vocal composition in France. The earliest examples of the form are for solo voice accompanied by lute; towards the end of the 16th century, four or five voices are common, sometimes accompanied (or instrumental accompaniment may have been optional); and by the mid 17th ...

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Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language — the source text — and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language — called the target text, or the translation. Traditionally, translation has been a human activity, although attempts have been made to automate and computerise the translation of natural language texts — machine translation — or to use computers as an aid ...

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• Translation - Specialised types of translation
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• Translation - Computer-assisted translation
• Translation - Cultural translation
• Translation - Criticism of translation
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Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over s ...

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Mind control is a general term for a number of controversial theories proposing that an individual's thinking, behavior, emotions or decisions can, to a greater or lesser extent, be manipulated at will by outside sources. People who believe they are subject to mind-control are usually psychotic. Suitable doses of anti-psychotic drugs remove the delusion or make it less obtrusive. The principal feasibility of such control and the methods by which it might be attained (either direct or more subtle) are both subject to hot ...

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• Mind control - Subliminal advertising
• Mind control - Lifton brainwashing model
• Mind control - Margaret Singer's conditions for mind control
• Mind control - BITE model of Steven Hassan
• Mind control - Mind Control and the Battered Women Syndrome
• Mind control - Evolutionary Psychology approach
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• Mind control - Social psychological conditioning by Stahelski
• Mind control - Cults and mind control controversies
• Mind control - Scholarly points of view
• Mind control - Mind control and exit counseling
• Mind control - Mind control and recruitment rates
• Mind control - Mind control and faith
• Mind control - Counter-cult movement and mind control
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20th century classical music, the classical music of the 20th century, was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Impressionism of Claude Debussy, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer, the microtonal music adopted by Harry Pa ...

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• 20th century classical music - Neoclassicism
• 20th century classical music - Post-modern music
• 20th century classical music - Post-modernity's birth
• 20th century classical music - Minimalism
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In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. In the context of classical music the term applies to music written in the last half century or so, particularly works post-1960. The argument over whether the term applies to music in any style, or whether it applies only to composers writing avant-garde music, or "modernist" music is a subject of hot debate. There is some use of "Contemporary" as a synonym for "Modern", particularly in academic settings, whereas others are more restrictive and a ...

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• Contemporary classical music - Post-modernism
• Contemporary classical music - Experimentalism
• Contemporary classical music - Electronic music
• Contemporary classical music - Neo-Romanticism
• Contemporary classical music - New Complexity
• Contemporary classical music - Contemporary music festivals
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Andrea Luca Luchesi (May 23, 1741, Motta di Livenza - March 21, 1801, Bonn), was an Italian composer. Andrea Luchesi - Biography. Andrea Luchesi grew up in his native town, receiving musical and general education from his elder brother, a priest, public tutor and organist. At the age of 15 he moved to Venice. The protection of nobleman Jseppo Morosini enabled him to study with eminent musicians (the most well known of them being Baldassare Galuppi). His career in Venice develops quickl ...

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Constanzo Porta (1528 or 1529 – May 19, 1601) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was born in Cremona and died in Padua. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher. Costanzo Porta - Biography. Details of his early life are slim, but he probably was educated at the Convent Porta San Luca in Cremona. Most likely around 1550 he studied with Adrian Willaert, who was maestro di cappella ...

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An augmented fifth is one of three musical intervals that span five diatonic scale degrees. The prefix 'augmented' identifies it as being the largest of the three intervals; the others being the perfect fifth and diminished fifth, which are one and two semitones smaller, respectively. Its inversion is the diminished fourth, and its enharmonic equivalent is the minor sixth. The augmented fifth has no 'natural' diatonic occurrence, and only began to make an appearance, at the beginning of the common practice period of music, as a consequence of composers seeking to strengthen the normally we ...

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Prem Rawat (also called Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji; see main article: Prem Rawat), although an object of inspiration for his students, has attracted controversy and criticism since he started delivering his teachings in the 1960s. This criticism has also been directed at the associated organizations Divine Light Mission and Elan Vital. The sources of criticism include individuals related to the anti-cult movement of the 1970s, some media articles from the 1970s and 1980s, articles by sev ...

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In music unified field is often used to refer to the "unity of musical space" created by the free use of melodic as harmonic and harmonic as melodic material. The technique is most associated with the twelve-tone technique, created by its "total thematicism" where a tone-row (melody) generates all (harmonic) material. It was also used by Alexander Scriabin, though from a diametrically opposed direction, created by his use of extremely slow harmonic rhythm which eventually led to his use of unordered pitch-class sets, usually hexachords (of six pitches) as harmony ...

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Tension may mean: In physics, tension is a force on a body directed to produce strain (extension); it can be considered to be negative compression. It is measured in according units (newton, dynes, pounds-force, etc). Tension is the dominant static force acting on such objects as a vibrating string or a stretched rubber band. Hooke's law states the relation between the stress on an object and the resultant increase in its length. The modulus of elasticity of a spring or elastic string can be use ...

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Most textbooks name these chords formally by the type of triad and type of seventh; hence, a chord consisting of a major triad and a minor seventh above the root is referred to as a "major/minor seventh chord." When the triad type and seventh type are identical, the name is shortened; a major/major seventh is generally referred to as a "major seventh." Of the eight possible constructions of seventh chords using major and minor thirds, five are most commonly found in western music. They are built as indicated below: Major ...

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Species counterpoint is a type of strict counterpoint, developed as a pedagagical tool, in which a student progresses through several "species" of increasing complexity, gradually attaining the ability to write free counterpoint according to the rules at the given time. The idea is at least as old as 1532, when Giovanni Maria Lanfraco described a similar concept in his Scintille de musica. The late 16th century Venetian theorist Zarlino elaborated on the idea in his influential Le institutioni harmoniche, and it was first prese ...

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Counterpoint, Counterpoint - Species counterpoint, Counterpoint - Considerations for all species, Counterpoint - First species, Counterpoint - Second species, Counterpoint - Third species, Counterpoint - Fourth species, Counterpoint - Florid counterpoint, Counterpoint - General notes, Counterpoint - Contrapuntal derivations, Counterpoint - Dissonant counterpoint, Counterpoint - Source

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