New Age Music

New Age Music: Encyclopedia - New Age music

New Age music - Influences. Influences reach from meditation music to classical music, world music, ethnic music. ambient music and also prog-rock and Krautrock. However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static which can resemble trance music. There is the Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones ...

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia II - New Age music - Significance Music labeled New Age often is intended to represent a vision of a better future, expresses an appreciation of goodness and beauty, even an anticipation, relevant to some event. Rarely does New Age music dwell on a problem with this world or its inhabitants and is generally apolitical; instead it offers a peaceful vision of a better world. Since most of the music is instrumental, rather than vocal, these interpretations are often left to the listener's imagination. Often the music is celestial themed w ...

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia - List of composers

Composers are generally people who write music. A strong distinction is made, however, between composers, lyricists, and performers in such genres as classical and jazz music. In other genres, such as popular and folk music, the term "songwriter" means someone who authors both music and lyrics, and is more common than "composer." If a songwriter also performs, he or she is called a "singer/songwriter." This page inclu ...

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia - World music

World music is, most generally, all the music in the world (Bohlman 2002, Nidel 2004, p.3), but is more specifically all music genres that are not part of mainstream popular music or classical music from North America or Western Europe, and has some kind of "ethnic" component. The word connotes traditional or folk music from the third world, European popular and folk music with influences from the third world, and traditional music especially (but not only) from the third world. The term is used primarily as a marketing/classificatory ...

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia - 1970 in music

See also: 1969 in music, other events of 1970, 1971 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1970 in music - Events. Charles Wuorinen, aged 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. January 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. January 7 - Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighbouring farmers. January 14 - Diana Ross pe ...

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia - Ambient music

Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. Ambient music - History. The earliest electronic soundscape music and theories come from the work of Pierre Schaeffer who followed the futurists in classifying music into categories such as man made, natural, short and long. He made some of the first electronic music using rec ...

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Ambient music - Notable artists and works in chronological order

New Age Music: Encyclopedia - Clannad

Clannad is a famous Irish musical group. Their music has been variously described as being folk music, new age, and Celtic. Clannad are Máire Ní Bhraonáin, Ciarán Brennan, Pól Brennan, Noel Duggan and Padraig Duggan. Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (Enya Brennan), Máire's sister, used to be a member of the group in the early Eighties. The band won a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best New Age Album. Clannad, whose name is taken from an Clann as Dobhar meaning the family from Dore, was formed by the Brennan family in ...

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Clannad - List of Albums

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia II - New Age - Music

See a longer description at the New Age music article Although more rock than new age in genre the 1967 successful musical Hair with its opening song "Aquarius" and the memorable line "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius" brought the New Age concept to the attention of a huge world wide audience. The first actual mention of the term was by American rock and roll band The Velvet Underground in their not-s ...

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Yanni - Music Albums

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New Age Music: Encyclopedia II - New Age - Underlying assumptions

Judging by its name, the New Age movement ought to involve millenarian claims, perhaps of a glorious future age which is about to begin. As such it could theoretically be traced back to the time of Zoroaster, or to biblical apocalypticism. While such expectations are encountered often enough—e.g., the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, pole shifts and paradigm shifts, the imminent end of the Mayan calendar—the predominant themes of the New Age are mystical rather than apocalyptic. Hence the widespread interest within this subculture in the ...

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