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Encyclopedia II - Amazing Grace - History

John Newton (1725–1807) was the captain of a slave ship. On 10 May 1748 returning home during a storm he experienced a "great deliverance". In his journal he wrote that the ship was in grave danger of sinking. He exclaimed "Lord have mercy upon us". The now familiar and traditional melody of the hymn was not composed by Newton, and the words were sung to a number of tunes before the now inseparable melody was chanced upon. There are two different tunes to the words. "New Britain" first appears in a shape note hymnal from 1831 ...

Encyclopedia II - Bluegrass music - Characteristics

Bluegrass music - Instrumentation. Unlike mainstream country music, bluegrass relies mostly on acoustic stringed instruments: The fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin, and upright bass are sometimes joined by the resonator guitar (popularly known by the Dobro brand name), and an electric bass or electric upright bass is occasionally substituted for the upright bass. This instrumentation originated in rural black dance bands and was being abandonded by those groups (in favor of blues and jazz ensembles) when picke ...

Videos - kentucky harmony

Gonzalez: Quintet for Winds, Movement II. The Spring of '65

Wind Quintet, written by J. Clay Gonzalez. This movement is based off of a field recording of the traditional folk tune "Th...

Harmony Elementary Pineville KY Graduation 1986 Super 8

This is the Harmony Elementary School (Pineville KY) 1986 graduation at the hillside amphitheater. The cheesy music is not somet...

Dublin from the Shenandoah Harmony (Keystone Sacred Harp Convention 2012)

Dedicated to the Sacred Harp singers of Ireland! We found this setting of Dublin in Ananias Davisson's Kentucky Harmony. It's a...

(Official) Cumberland Highlanders Show-"I Have Found the Way "

Special guest and Blue Grass Boy Tom Ewing played bass for the Highlanders for the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration in 2009...

Encyclopedia - Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is considered a form of American roots music with its own roots in the English, Irish and Scottish traditional music of immigrants from the British Isles (particularly the Scots-Irish immigrants of Appalachia), as well as the music of rural African-Americans, jazz, and blues. Like jazz, bluegrass is played with each melody instrument switching off, playing the melody in turn while the others revert to backing; this is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument car ... Including:

Bluegrass music - Characteristics

Bluegrass music - History

Bluegrass music - Subgenres

Bluegrass music - Social and musical impact

Bluegrass music - Bluegrass in movies

Encyclopedia - Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace" is one of the most well-known Christian hymns. The words were written by John Newton; they form a part of the Olney Hymns that he worked on, with William Cowper and other hymnodists. Amazing Grace - History. John Newton (1725–1807) was the captain of a slave ship. On 10 May 1748 returning home during a storm he experienced a "great deliverance". In his journal he wrote that the ship was in grave danger of sinking. He exclaimed "Lord have mercy upon us". The now familiar and traditio ... Including:

Encyclopedia - American classical music

American classical music is music written in the United States but in the European classical music tradition. In many cases, beginning in the 18th century, it has been influenced by American folk music styles; and from the 20th century to the present day it has often been influenced by folk, jazz, blues, and pop styles. Jazz music is sometimes referred to as American classical music, mainly by jazz musicians. They feel that, being as jazz originated in America, jazz is the true American classical music. American c ... Including:

Encyclopedia II - American classical music - Glass

In the 1980s, after a period during which self-defined American "classical" composers like John Cage adopted atonal structures and thought of themselves less American than Modern composers, Philip Glass revived tonality and traditional genres, such as opera in works like Einstein on the Beach. Glass re-created a semi-mass market for "classical" music, made in America because audiences outside of an avant-garde had simply refused to sit still for Modern ...

Encyclopedia - Rapping

Rapping, the rhythmic delivery of rhymes, is one of the four central elements of hip-hop culture. Rap can be delivered over a beat or over human beatboxing. A rapper may also perform acapella without any accompaniment. Due to its increasing popularity, rapping has also been assimilated into other musical forms. Rapping - Rapper vs. MC. By standard definition, a rapper is anyone who raps lyrics and an MC—also spelled 'emcee'—is a rapper who performs for crowds.^Including:

Rapping - The importance of rhyme

Rapping - Different types of rhymes

Rapping - Rap writing and delivery

Rapping - Traditional forms

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Encyclopedia - Washington Administration

George Washington was elected as President of the United States twice, serving eight years from 1789 to 1797 before retiring to his Mount Vernon plantation. Washington Administration - 1789 election. The 1789 presidential election took place on February 15, 1789. The two main candidates were George Washington and John Adams. It was left up to each state to determine how to choose its electors for the Electoral College. Of the 13 states, only ten cast electoral votes, and of these only five held a gen ... Including:

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of slavery into federal territories, and his victory in the 1860 presidential election further polarized an already divided nation. Before his inauguration in March of 1861, seven southern slave st ... Including:

Abraham Lincoln - Supreme Court

Encyclopedia - Witold Lutosławski

Witold Lutosławski (IPA: /vitɔld lutɔswavski/; January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century. He was possibly the most significant Polish composer since Chopin, and was the pre-eminent musician of his country during the last three decades of the century. During his lifetime he earned a large number of international awards and prizes, includ ... Including:

Witold Lutosławski - Biography

Witold Lutosławski - Music

Witold Lutosławski - Selected compositions

Encyclopedia - George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was elected twice (1789-1797). Washington first gained prominence as an officer during the French and Indian War, as a leader of colonial militia supporting the British Empire. After leading the American victory in the Revolutionary War, he refused to lead a military regime, retur ... Including:

George Washington - Personal information

Encyclopedia - Folk music

Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. Folk music arose, and best survives, in societies not yet affected by mass communication and the commercialization of culture. It normally was shared by the entire community (and its performance not strictly limited to a special class of expert performers), and was transmitted by word of mouth. During the 20th and 21st century, the term folk music took on a second meaning: it describes a particular kind of popular music which is culturally desc ... Including:

Folk music - The blending of folk and popular genres

Encyclopedia II - Rapping - Substance

Delivery can be representative of a rapper's skill, but the message of a rap is considered more important. A rapper who possesses little substance alongside lots of style doesn't show as much skill as one who has a message or story, because their creativity is ignored in lieu of lack of an important statement. The message can be braggadocios in nature, about one's life, about politics, about philosophy, and many other topics. "The Message", a concept rap written by Melle Mel and performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, pioneered the inclusion of political content in hip-hop rhymes and rapping ceased to ...

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