Encyclopedia - 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 als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age Music: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age Music - Influences
Influences reach from meditation music to classical music, world music, ethnic music. ambient music and also prog-rock and Krautrock. How...   » Read the article

Article - Surrender: Surrender And Service
Most of our ideas about surrender are just ideas, not lived sacrifice. Those who do not know surrender can only talk about surrender, int...   » Read the article

Article - Pain: The Way Of Pain
The Way of Pain The Sanskrit word saha means "to endure, to go patiently through hardships without rebelling."1 The process of...   » Read the article

Article - Mantra: The Sound Of Your Name As A Mantra
The Sound Of Your Name In the famous Tantra Book, Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, there's one sutra, "Enter the sound of your name and throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia - New Age
The term New Age describes a broad movement of late twentieth century and contemporary Western culture, characterised by an individual ec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Composers: Encyclopedia - List Of Composers
Composers are generally people who write music. A strong distinction is made, however, between composers, lyricists, and performers in su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World 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 tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1970 In 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. C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ambient Music: Encyclopedia - Ambient Music
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clannad: 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 M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yanni: Encyclopedia - Yanni
Yanni, the popular name for Yanni Chrysomallis (born November 14, 1954), is a Greek American keyboardist and composer. He was born in Kal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: 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. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - History
The name New Age was popularized by the American mass media during the late 1980s, to describe the alternative spiritual subculture inter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - Quotations
In Experiential Spirituality and Contemporary Gnosis Diane Brandon writes: "And this emphasis on spirituality and consciousness reflects...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - Medicine
Many people with a New Age perspective also adopt complementary and alternative medicine. Some rely on New Age related treatments exclusi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - Definitions
Though there are no formal or definitive boundaries for membership; those who are likely to sample many diverse teachings and practices (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - Language
Many adherents of belief systems characterised as New Age rely heavily on the use of metaphors to describe experiences deemed to be beyon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - Critiques Of The New Age
Major critiques of the New Age have emerged from rational philosophical and scientific views that seek to understand the nature of New Ag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Age: Encyclopedia Ii - New Age - Beliefs
The following are some common — though by no means universal — beliefs found among New Agers: All humanity—indeed all life, everyt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Classical Traditions
Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Prehistoric Music
The development of music among humans occurred against the backdrop of natural sounds. It was, in all probability, influenced by birdsong...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Popular Music
Popular music, sometimes abbreviated pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular or inten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Music In Cradles Of Civilizations
The prehistoric era is considered to have ended with the development of writing, and with it, by definition, prehistoric music. "Ancient ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - 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 a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Economics And Industry
Like most of east-central New Mexico and west Texas, the vicinity hosts agriculture and ranching, including peanut and cotton farming and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Culture
Clovis New Mexico - Food. In addition to general American cooking styles, Mexican and New Mexican cuisine are prevalent. Local restaura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - History
The eastern New Mexico region was home to the Clovis culture, a significant early anthropological group of Native Americans. This communi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Architecture
Southwest, Spanish Mission, or Adobe architectural styles are prevalent, being considered representative of New Mexico. Much of Clovis ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Education
Clovis New Mexico - Public education. Clovis is served by several public schools comprised of the Clovis Municipal Schools: Elementary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 32,667 people, 12,458 households, and 8,596 families residing in the city. The population density ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Name
The town takes its name from Clovis, the first Christian king of the Franks, at least according to most reports; it is often reported tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Geography
Clovis is located at 34°24'45" North, 103°12'17" West (34.412509, -103.204611)GR1. It lies at approximately 4250 feet above sea level (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Composers: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Composers - Folk And Country
See also Folk music and Country music. Joan Baez John Denver Bob Dylan Nick Drake Ilayaraja, (1943) Jessen O'Sullivan Elad Mehl ... S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammy Awards Of 2004: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammy Awards Of 2004 - Award Winners:
Grammy Awards of 2004 - Alternative. Best Alternative Music Album The White Stripes for Elephant Grammy Awards of 2004 - Blues. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammy Awards Of 2005: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammy Awards Of 2005 - Award Winners:
Grammy Awards of 2005 - Alternative. Best Alternative Music Album Wilco for A Ghost is Born Grammy Awards of 2005 - Blues. Best...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kitaro: Encyclopedia Ii - Kitaro - Biography
Kitaro - Early life. In Highschool he loved Soul and Rhythm & Blues. He learned playing E-Guitar and performed with his band "Albat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kitaro: Encyclopedia Ii - Kitaro - Personal Life
Kitaro is a star, but he is very modest. "Nature inspires me. I am only a messenger", he said. "To me, some songs are like clouds, some a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - Historiography
Middle Ages - Middle Ages in history. Main article: Middle Ages in history After the Middle Ages ended subsequent generations imagine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - The Early Middle Ages
As the authority of the Roman Empire dwindled in Western Europe, its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "barbari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - The High Middle Ages
From beginnings roughly about the year 1000, greater stability came to the lands of western Europe. With the brief exception of the Mongo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - The Late Middle Ages Circa 1300-1500
The 14th century witnessed a decline that began with the first economic retrenchment after the long, gently inflationary rise of a unifie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - Before 1987
In 1968 Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones recorded The Master Musicians of Joujouka in the village of Joujouka in the North of Morocco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - After 1987
At the outset of the 1987 meeting, the musician Roger Armstrong advised why something needed to be done; "(He) felt that the main problem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - Awards For World Music 2005
The hosts for the Awards for World Music 2005 Poll Winners' Concert were Eliza Carthy and Benjamin Zephaniah and the nominees were: Worl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - The Early Middle Ages
As the authority of the Roman Empire dwindled in Western Europe, its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "barbari...   » Read the article

Dictionary - New Age Music: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On New Age Music
New Age Music Music composed to facilitate altered states of consciousness and meditation. Stephen Halpern's Spectrum Suite, is the fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - The High Middle Ages
From beginnings roughly about the year 1000, greater stability came to the lands of western Europe. With the brief exception of the Mongo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - The Late Middle Ages Circa 1300-1500
The 14th century witnessed a decline that began with the first economic retrenchment after the long, gently inflationary rise of a unifie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages - Historiography
Middle Ages - Middle Ages in history. Main article: Middle Ages in history After the Middle Ages ended subsequent generations imagine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freak Scene: Encyclopedia Ii - Freak Scene - Hair And Clothes
The hairstyles were mostly long and unkempt but people were experimenting with other possibilities. Rock stars of the era such as David B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freak Scene: Encyclopedia Ii - Freak Scene - Music
Music was an eclectic mixture around a progressive rock base. There were crossover bands bridging rock and jazz, rock and folk, rock and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - Terminology
In essence, the term "world music" refers to any form of music that is not part of modern mainstream Western commercial popular music or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - Cultural Appropriation In Western Music
World music as a cultural-economic phenomenon is inextricably linked with the invention of sound recording and the development of the int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - The 1900s
Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, the invention of sound recording and motion pictures enabled American mass-entertainment c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - The Early Sixties: Folk Meets Pop
After World War II a small but growing market developed for Western folk music and recordings of non-Western music, and this was supplied...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - 1965-1967: From Norwegian Wood To Monterey Pop
Pop musicians first began to move outside the Western tradition in the mid-Sixties, when they started mixing Western electric pop with in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - 1968-1986: Joujouka To Graceland
In 1968 Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones recorded the Master Musicians of Joujouka in the village of Joujouka in northern Morocco. Jo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - After 1987: Womad And Beyond
The origins of the term World Music in relation to the selling of this type of music began in 1982 when World Music Day (Fête de la Musi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Music: Encyclopedia Ii - World Music - Awards For World Music 2005
The BBC presents awards for World Music artists every year. The hosts for the Awards for World Music 2005 Poll Winners' Concert were Eliz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Climate And Landscape
The climate is relatively temperate with low humidity. Summers are warm but without extremes of heat and winters are cool without extreme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clovis New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Clovis New Mexico - Media
Clovis New Mexico - Radio. Locally tunable stations have wide variety of content relatively typical of most of the United States, inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Music - Genres
Popular music dates at least as far back as the mid 19th century. Below is a list of genres. Different genres often appeal to different a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Golden Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Golden Age - Architecture
Dutch architecture was taken to a new height in the Golden Age. Due to the thriving economy cities expanded greatly. New town halls, weig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Theatre - Musical Collaboration
Musical theater/theatre is a collaborative craft with a long history of traditional forms and structures, although new writing in musical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Theatre - History
Musical theatre - In the beginning. The first theater piece that conforms to the modern conception of a musical is generally considered...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Theatre - History
Musical theatre - In the beginning. The first theater piece that conforms to the modern conception of a musical is generally considered...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Golden Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Golden Age - Social Structure
In the Netherlands the social status in the 17th century was largely determined by income. Social classes existed but in a new way. Arist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Golden Age: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Golden Age - Culture
The Low Countries witnessed a cultural development that stood out from neighbouring countries. With some exceptions (notably Dutch playwr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Klaus Schulze: Encyclopedia Ii - Klaus Schulze - History
In 1969, Klaus Schulze was the drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream for their debut album Electronic Meditation. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Klaus Schulze: Encyclopedia Ii - Klaus Schulze - Discography
Klaus Schulze - Studio and concert albums. Schulze's concert performances are original compositions recorded live and thus listed as al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - High Middle Ages - Technology
During the 12th and 13th century in Europe there was a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vinland: Encyclopedia Ii - Vinland - Historical Accounts
Vinland was first recorded by Adam of Bremen, a geographer and historian, in his book Descriptio insularum Aquilonis of approximately 107...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vinland: Encyclopedia Ii - Vinland - Localization Debate
Historians do not agree on the location of Vinland. Rafn and Erik Wahlgren believed that Vinland was probably in New England. In the 1960...   » Read the article

Dictionary - New Age Music: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On New Age Music
New Age Music Music composed to facilitate altered states of consciousness and meditation. Stephen Halpern's Spectrum Suite, is the fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vinland: Encyclopedia Ii - Vinland - Other Usages
Vinland is also the symbolic name for the cultural landscape of Canada (Upper Vinland) and America (Lower Vinland) which some modern Adhe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muzak: Encyclopedia Ii - Muzak - List Of Channels
Classical Classical Ambiance Light Classical Opera Country Country Classics Country Currents Country Music One New Country Electronic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musicology: Encyclopedia Ii - Musicology - What Is Music?
"What is music?" is the first (and historical) question of musicology. Through it we can find the three sub-disciplines of present musico...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Late Middle Ages: Encyclopedia Ii - Late Middle Ages - Trade And Commerce
Several changes took place in the patterns of European trade in this period. While the Hanseatic League retained their control of the Bal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melissa Manchester: Encyclopedia Ii - Melissa Manchester - Biography
Manchester was born in the Bronx area of New York city to a musical family of Jewish descent. Her father was a bassoonist for the New Yor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Detroit: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Detroit - Roots: 1910-1960
Henry Ford began the transformation of Detroit from modest port to the "Motor City". Ford was the first businessman to specifically targe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tango Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Tango Music - 1920s And 1930s Carlos Gardel
Tango soon became the first of many Latin dance crazes to gain popularity in Europe, beginning in France. Superstar Rudolph Valentino soo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Koji Kondo: Encyclopedia Ii - Koji Kondo - Biography
Kondo was born in Nagoya, Japan. He took to music at an early age, writing simple tunes for fun even as a small child. At seventeen, he d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Age Hip Hop: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Age Hip Hop - Socially Concious Rap
Afrocentrism was a common theme in popular golden age hip hop. The native tongues posse , which contained Queen Latifah, KRS-ONE, A Tribe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dronology: Encyclopedia Ii - Dronology - Overview
The modern genre term "dronology" is most often applied to artists who have allied themselves closely with underground music and the post...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Name
The Roma are popularly known in English as Gypsies or Gipsies, derived from the word Egypt, owing to the erroneous belief amongst outside...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Language
Analysis of the Romany language has shown that it is related to languages spoken in northern Pakistan and northwest India, such as Pothoh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - History
The Roma are believed to have left India about AD 1000, and to have passed through what is now Afghanistan, Iran, Armenia, and Turkey. Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - People
Estimates suggest that there are approximately 8 to 10 million Roma worldwide [2]. It's estimated that between 7 and 10 million Roma live...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Genetics
Studies of Bulgarian, Baltic and Vlax Roma genetics suggest that about 50% of observed Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA belong to male...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Rejection
Because of their nomadic lifestyle and unwillingness to be integrated, there has been a great deal of mutual distrust between the Roma an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Former Communist Countries
Many countries that were formerly part of the Eastern bloc and former Yugoslavia, have substantial populations of Roma. The level of inte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Roma Society
The traditional Roma place a high value on the extended family. Virginity is essential in unmarried women. Both men and women often marry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Religion
It has been suggested that while still in India the Roma people belonged to the Hindu religion, this theory being supported by the Romany...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - Music
In addition to their own Roma music, which is very relevant within the Eastern European folk such as the Zards from Hungary, Russia and R...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Music Of The Spheres: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Music Of The Spheres
music of the spheres Celestial vibrations; Pythagorean theory of correspondences between planets and the musical scale   (See ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Steve Halpern: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Steve Halpern
Steve Halpern Prominent New Age music composer and lecturer.   (See also: Steve Halpern , New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Steve Halpern: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Steve Halpern
Steve Halpern Prominent New Age music composer and lecturer.   (See also: Steve Halpern , New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and...   » Read the article