Encyclopedia - Song: Encyclopedia - Song
A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Song: Encyclopedia Ii - Song - Cultural Types
Song - Art songs. Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, or for the purposes of a European upper class, usuall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Form: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Form - Descriptions Of Musical Form
Forms and formal detail may be described as sectional or developmental, developmental or variational, syntactical or processual (Keil 196...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Form: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Form - Formal Structures
In classical and popular music, there are many labels applied to forms, abstract formal designs, as contrasted with the principals and pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Music - Classical Music And Popular Music
The relationship (particularly, the relative value) of classical music and popular music is a controversial question. Some partisans of c...   » 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 - Popular Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Music - Performance Of Popular Music By Amateurs
Many people play popular music together with their friends, often in garages and basements, on a casual amateur basis. This activity is o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Music - Definitions
The term "popular music" is used in broad and narrow senses. At its broadest, it refers to all music other than classical music, also kno...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Music - Theories Of Popular Music
Among scholars in the humanities, a broader range of definitions have been proposed. Frans Birrer (1985, p. 104) gives four conceptions o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Music - The Nature Of Popular Music
Fred Lerdahl (1992), for example, claims that in comparison with classical music popular music lacks the structural complexity for multip...   » Read the article