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| | German music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | In the 19th century, Germany, together with Austria (whose musical activity has been closely allied with that of Germany), was the pre-eminent power-house of classical music, and has retained something of that position in the 20th. |
 | | Idiomatically, this musical development was influenced by the emergence of a style of cabaret, centred in Berlin, that was in content usually satirical, and musically influenced by jazz, but with a more Teutonic rigidity of rhythm. |
 | | This included music for films and radio, but is especially associated with his numerous works for amateur musicians and choirs, music that was both contemporary, and yet of a complexity that would be appropriate for musicians of lesser training or abilities. |
| www.humanities.ualberta.ca /mmorris/402/Germany.htm (2113 words) |
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