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Encyclopedia - Amateur: Encyclopedia - Amateur
The word amateur has at least two connotations. In the first, more widely used manner, it means someone performing some task without pay,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brandenburg Concertos: Encyclopedia - Brandenburg Concertos
The six Brandenburg concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of instrumental works presented by Bach to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia - Baroque
In the arts, Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the artistic style that dominated it. The Baroque style used exaggerated motion an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen, pronounced "INGvay" (born Lars Yngve Johann Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a virtuoso guitarist from Sweden who ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chuck Schuldiner: Encyclopedia - Chuck Schuldiner
Charles Michael (Chuck) Schuldiner (May 13, 1967, Long Island, New York –December 13, 2001) was an American musician. He is best known ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Stadler: Encyclopedia - Anton Stadler
Anton Stadler (1753 - 1812) was a clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witold Lutosławski: Encyclopedia - Witold Lutosławski
Witold Lutosławski (IPA: /vitɔld lutɔswavski/; January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 2...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer of classical music, who lived predominantly in V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ballet: Encyclopedia - Ballet
Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. Works of dance choreographed using this technique are called ballets, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Luchesi: Encyclopedia - Andrea Luchesi
Andrea Luca Luchesi (May 23, 1741, Motta di Livenza - March 21, 1801, Bonn), was an Italian composer. Andrea Luchesi - Biography. Andre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alison Krauss: Encyclopedia - Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born on July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois), is a bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Il...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia - Dance
Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romantic Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Romantic Music - Brief Chronology Of Musical Romanticism
Romantic music - Classical roots of Romanticism 1780-1815. In literature, the Romantic period is often said to begin in the 1770s or 17...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ballet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ballet - History Of Ballet
Ballet has its roots in Renaissance court spectacle in Italy, but was particularly shaped by the French ballet de cour, which consisted o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beethoven And His Contemporaries: Encyclopedia Ii - Beethoven And His Contemporaries - Beethoven And Franz Josef Haydn
Perhaps the most important relationship in Beethoven's early life, and certainly the most famous, was the young pianist's tutorship under...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theremin: Encyclopedia Ii - Theremin - The Theremin In Use
Theremin - In movie soundtracks. Theremin by Lydia Kavina in the music to 'The Little Mermaid'. A Lera Auerbach's collaboration with ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piano Concerto: Encyclopedia Ii - Piano Concerto - History
Concertos for the harpsichord were written throughout the Baroque era, notably by Johann Sebastian Bach (see list of compositions by Joha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles-valentin Alkan: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles-valentin Alkan - Biography
Charles-Valentin Alkan - Life and career. Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange to a Jewish family in Paris, where his father lived ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Encyclopedia Ii - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - 1980s
In late 1982 Malmsteen was brought to the USA by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records, who had heard a demo tape of Malmsteen's playing. Shrap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Encyclopedia Ii - Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Biography
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was born in the village of Kuryłówka in the province of Podolia, Poland. His father was working there as an econo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danny Cooksey: Encyclopedia Ii - Danny Cooksey - Biography
Danny Cooksey - Movies and TV. Danny Cooksey was born in Moore, Oklahoma in 1975. In 1980, he and his mother moved to Los Angeles with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ozomatli: Encyclopedia Ii - Ozomatli - Band History Summary
Ozomatli is named after the Nahuatl name for the monkey astrological symbol within the Aztec calendar, as well as God of Dance, of Fire, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Myron Floren: Encyclopedia Ii - Myron Floren - Early Years
Growing up on a farm near Roslyn, South Dakota, Myron took up playing the accordion at age six when his father bought him a $10 mail ord...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Life And Work
Beethoven was born at 515 Bongasse, Bonn, Germany, to Johann van Beethoven (1740–1792), of Flemish origins; and Magdalena Keverich van ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison Band - Later Years
Despite Poison's success, DeVille's cocaine and alcohol addictions had begun to cause strife in the band. Conflict between Michaels and D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richie Kotzen: Encyclopedia Ii - Richie Kotzen - History
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1973, Richie Kotzen was soon taken by music and first began playing piano at the age of five. At the age...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtuosity: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtuosity - Character Bios
Virtuosity - Madison Carter. Madison Carter (played by Kelly Lynch) is a doctor of criminal psychology, writer of criminal psychology n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Art Of Balance: Encyclopedia Ii - The Art Of Balance - Production And Marketing
The album was recorded at Planet Z studios in Hadley, Massachusetts with ZEUSS. It was mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Buchanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Buchanan - Recording Career
Buchanan's 1962 recording with drummer Bobby Gregg, "Potato Peeler", first introduced the trademark Buchanan pinch harmonics. An effort t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Encyclopedia Ii - Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Biography
Gottschalk was born of a Jewish businessman from London and a white Creole Haitian in New Orleans, where he was exposed to a wide variety...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joe Satriani: Encyclopedia Ii - Joe Satriani - Biography And Playing History
Satriani was inspired to play guitar at age 14 after hearing that Jimi Hendrix had died. Satriani reportedly heard the news during a foot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Johnson: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Johnson - Biography
Johnson served as a director of military bands and society dance orchestras as well a music teacher in addition to violin and bugle perfo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domenico Dragonetti: Encyclopedia Ii - Domenico Dragonetti - History
Domenico Dragonetti - Venice 1763-1794. He began playing the guitar and the double bass by himself on his father's instruments. He was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuno Bettencourt: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuno Bettencourt - Biography
Bettencourt was born Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt on September 20, 1966 in the town of Praia da Vitoria, on the island of Terceira ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goodfellas: Encyclopedia Ii - Goodfellas - Story
In the film, Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, becomes involved in the mafia at a young age: as he says in the film, "As far back as I ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hammerfall: Encyclopedia Ii - Hammerfall - Biography
HammerFall began when guitarist Oscar Dronjak quit Ceremonial Oath and invited Jesper Strömblad (from In Flames, also originally a membe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joe Pass: Encyclopedia Ii - Joe Pass - Selected Discography
Joe Pass - Solo albums. The Stones Jazz Virtuoso Virtuoso II Virtuoso III Virtuoso IV Virtuoso Live! At Montreux Jazz Festival Montreu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jelly Roll Morton: Encyclopedia Ii - Jelly Roll Morton - The Library Of Congress Interviews
In May, 1938, Alan Lomax began recording interviews with Morton for the Library of Congress. The sessions, originally intended as a short...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ignaz Moscheles: Encyclopedia Ii - Ignaz Moscheles - Life
Ignaz Moscheles - Sources. Much of what we know about Moscheles's life is derived from the edition of his diaries prepared by his wife,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concerto Pathetique: Encyclopedia Ii - Concerto Pathetique - Genesis Of The Four-movement-in-one Form
The experimental nature of the Concerto pathétique gives it a truly outstanding and almost chameleon-like appearance in the Liszt oeuvre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witold Lutosławski: Encyclopedia Ii - Witold Lutosławski - Biography
Witold Lutosławski - Family and early years. Lutosławski's parents were both born into the Polish landed gentry; his family owned est...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eddie Van Halen: Encyclopedia Ii - Eddie Van Halen - Innovation
Van Halen's self-titled debut album was released on February 10, 1978 and almost immediately recognized as a ground-breaking hard rock ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Life And Work
Beethoven was born at 515 Bongasse, Bonn, Germany, to Johann van Beethoven (1740–1792), of Flemish origins; and Magdalena Keverich van ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franz Liszt: Encyclopedia Ii - Franz Liszt - Biography
Liszt was born in the village of Doborján, near Sopron, Hungary, in what was then the Austrian Empire (Doborján is now Raiding in Austr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ennio Morricone: Encyclopedia Ii - Ennio Morricone - Soundtrack Filmography -see Talk-
1969 Cuore di mamma, Salvatore Samperi Gott Uns, Giuliano Montaldo I cannibali, Liliana Cavani La donna invisibile, Paolo Spinola L'ass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ballet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ballet - History Of Ballet
Ballet has its roots in Renaissance court spectacle in Italy, but was particularly shaped by the French ballet de cour, which consisted o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Polymaths: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Polymaths - Enlightenment And Early Post-enlightenment
List of polymaths - A to J. Jeremy Bentham, jurist, inventor, philosopher, mathematician, economist, and political commentator William...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brandenburg Concertos: Encyclopedia Ii - Brandenburg Concertos - The Individual Concertos
Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F major. I. (Allegro) II. Adagio III. Allegro IV. Menuetto; Trio I; Polacca; Trio I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chuck Schuldiner: Encyclopedia Ii - Chuck Schuldiner - Biography
Chuck Schuldiner - Early life. Schuldiner started playing guitar when he was nine years old. He had gotten the guitar from his parents ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medha Hari: Encyclopedia Ii - Medha Hari - Background In Bharatanatyam
She started her Bharatanatyam lessons at the age of six, and became one of the top young Bharata Natyam dancers largely due to the effort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Evolution Of The Baroque
The Baroque originated around 1600. The canon promulgated at the Council of Trent (1545–63), by which the Roman Catholic Church address...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - History Of Dance
Main article: History of dance Throughout history, dance has been a part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment. It is trac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Musical Style And Innovations
Beethoven is viewed as one of the most important transitional figures between the Classical and Romantic eras of musical history. As far ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Baroque Music
Main article: Baroque music The term Baroque also is used to designate the style of music composed during a period that overlaps with tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Myron Floren: Encyclopedia Ii - Myron Floren - Years With The Musical Family
In 1950, Myron who was by then performing with the music group known as the Buckeye Four, went to a dance at the Casa Loma Ballroom in St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Beethoven The Romantic?
A continuing controversy surrounding Beethoven is whether he was a Romantic or a Classical composer. As documented elsewhere, since the m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Personal Beliefs And Their Musical Influence
Beethoven was much taken by the ideals of the Enlightenment and by the growing Romanticism in Europe. He initially dedicated his third sy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brandenburg Concertos: Encyclopedia Ii - Brandenburg Concertos - History
By 1721, Bach's third year as Kapellmeister at Anhalt-Cöthen, he was becoming restless and began looking for career opportunities outsid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brandenburg Concertos: Encyclopedia Ii - Brandenburg Concertos - The Concertos: Orchestral Versus Chamber Music
In modern times these works have been performed by chamber orchestras, using a fairly substantial string section. However, they have also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hammerfall: Encyclopedia Ii - Hammerfall - Line-up
HammerFall - Former members. Mikael Stanne - Vocals (1993-1996) Glenn Ljungström - Guitar (1995-1997) Niklas Sundin - Guitar (1993-19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goodfellas: Encyclopedia Ii - Goodfellas - Themes
Goodfellas is widely regarded as the first gangster film to show in detail how the "working class" mafia lived. Unlike The Godfather seri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Myron Floren: Encyclopedia Ii - Myron Floren - Later Years
After the show went into retirement in the early 1980s, Myron continued to perform, which included upwards to 200 dates a year on the ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Beethoven The Romantic?
A continuing controversy surrounding Beethoven is whether he was a Romantic or a Classical composer. As documented elsewhere, since the m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joe Satriani: Encyclopedia Ii - Joe Satriani - Technique And Influence
Satriani is recognized as one of the most technically proficient guitarists in rock. He has mastered nearly every performance technique o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Personal Beliefs And Their Musical Influence
Beethoven was much taken by the ideals of the Enlightenment and by the growing Romanticism in Europe. He initially dedicated his third sy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Van Beethoven - Musical Style And Innovations
Beethoven is viewed as one of the most important transitional figures between the Classical and Romantic eras of musical history. As far ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ozomatli: Encyclopedia Ii - Ozomatli - Detailed History
Embrace the Chaos was released on the auspicious date of September 11, 2001. Although many American bands cancelled their concerts, Ozoma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Buchanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Buchanan - Live Performances
Buchanan's honed his live technique through many years of playing bars. Buchanan played Carnegie Hall several times, and is perhaps the o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Buchanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Buchanan - Tone And Technique
Buchanan used a number of guitars throughout his career, although he was most often associated with a 1953 Telecaster guitar he named 'Na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Baroque Sculpture
In Baroque sculpture, groups of figures assumed new importance, and there was a dynamic movement and energy of human forms— they spiral...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Buchanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Buchanan - Legacy
Buchanan's long-term alcohol and substance problems worsened with time, culminating in a domestic dispute with his wife at their Reston, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Baroque Visual Art
Main article: Baroque art A defining statement of what Baroque signifies in painting is provided by the series of paintings executed by P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtuosity: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtuosity - Cast
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Denzel Washington - Lt. Parker Barnes Kelly Lynch - Dr. Madison Carter Russell Crowe - SID ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtuosity: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtuosity - Plot
Tagline: Justice needs a new program He's a composite of some 200 personalities, each a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7, a virtual reality...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Art Of Balance: Encyclopedia Ii - The Art Of Balance - Songs
Thematically, the album was inspired by the quest to find a perfect "balance" between melody and aggression. Lyrically, the album revolve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Buchanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Buchanan - Early Career
Roy Buchanan's musical career began in Pixley, California. His father was in the main a sharecropper (not a Pentecostal preacher as Bucha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Baroque Architecture
Main article: Baroque architecture In Baroque architecture, new emphasis was placed on bold massing, colonnades, domes, light-and-shade (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chuck Schuldiner: Encyclopedia Ii - Chuck Schuldiner - Other Bands
Early in his career, at a time when Death fell apart, Schuldiner temporarily joined the Canadian band Slaughter on guitar. Furthermore, h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ozomatli: Encyclopedia Ii - Ozomatli - Members
This is Ozomatli's lineup as of the release of Street Signs: Wil-Dog Abers: Bass, marimbula, background vocals Raúl 'El Bully' Pacheco: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Baroque Literature And Philosophy
Baroque actually expressed new values, which often are summarised in the use of metaphor and allegory, widely found in Baroque literature...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ozomatli: Encyclopedia Ii - Ozomatli - Notable Performances
During the 2000 Democratic National Convention Ozomatli played a live concert before thousands of protestors across the street from the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison Band - Music
Formed by a group of aspiring rock musicians from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who moved to Los Angeles, California in search of fame, Poison...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - Baroque Theater And Dance
In theater, the elaborate conceits, multiplicity of plot turns, and variety of situations characteristic of Mannerism (Shakespeare's trag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison Band - Popular Success
Poison's second album, Open Up And Say...Ahh!, which was released on May 21, 1988 (see 1988 in music) would ultimately go on to sell 8 mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison Band - Early Years
Poison began life in 1984 as Paris, a band from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania comprising vocalist Bret Michaels, bassist Bobby Dall, guitarist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque - The Term Baroque
The word "Baroque", like most period or stylistic designations, was invented by later critics rather than practitioners of the arts in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domenico Dragonetti: Encyclopedia Ii - Domenico Dragonetti - Style
Dragonetti was known for his formidable strength and stamina. It was particularly important at a time when the role of the double bass in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Encyclopedia Ii - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Criticism
Although he was initially regarded with respect by the musical community, and is revered by many guitar enthusiasts, Malmsteen's music ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Encyclopedia Ii - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Specialized Guitar
Aside from technical prowess, distinctions of Malmsteen's guitar style include a wide, violin-like vibrato inspired by classical violinis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Encyclopedia Ii - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - 2000s
After the release of War to End All Wars in 2000, singer Mark Boals left the band. Yngwie went on tour with former Ark vocalist Jorn Land...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eddie Van Halen: Encyclopedia Ii - Eddie Van Halen - Expansion
Later Van Halen albums such as Fair Warning and Diver Down displayed Eddie's prowess on keyboards, which were featured most prominently o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eddie Van Halen: Encyclopedia Ii - Eddie Van Halen - Childhood
His family moved to Pasadena, California in 1962 and immediately Edward started classical piano training, and won talent competitions as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theremin: Encyclopedia Ii - Theremin - Overview
To control the theremin, the musician stands in front of the instrument and moves his or her hands in the proximity of two metal antennas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - Categories Of Dance
Dance can be divided into two main categories that each have several subcategories into which most dance styles can be placed. They are: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witold Lutosławski: Encyclopedia Ii - Witold Lutosławski - Music
Lutosławski described musical composition as a search for listeners who think and feel the same way he did — he once called it "f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Encyclopedia Ii - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - 1990s
In the early 1990s he released the albums Eclipse (1990), The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection (1991), Fire and Ice (1992) and The Seventh Sig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eddie Van Halen: Encyclopedia Ii - Eddie Van Halen - Personality Conflicts Within Van Halen
Though they worked together successfully, Eddie Van Halen and original vocalist David Lee Roth never got on well on a personal level, Van...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piano Concerto: Encyclopedia Ii - Piano Concerto - Form
A classical piano concerto is often in three movements. A quick opening movement in sonata form including a cadenza (which may be improv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Polymaths: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Polymaths - Contemporary
List of polymaths - A to D. Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian, critic, and photographer G. E. M. Anscombe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuno Bettencourt: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuno Bettencourt - Recent Work
Bettencourt's playing has recently been featured on the Universal/Japan CD and DVD release of Guitar Wars - featuring solo and collective...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piano Concerto: Encyclopedia Ii - Piano Concerto - Other Compositions For Piano And Orchestra
Concertos have been written where the piano is not the only solo instrument. A famous example is the Triple concerto (for piano trio and ...   » Read the article