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	Music of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From a European influenced musicological analysis Koran chanting is structurally similar to Iranian classical singing (even if on religious texts) that is considered music in Iranian urban musical culture, and thus ethnomusicologists study Koran chanting as music, or rather; they study the musical aspects of Koran chanting.
		Iranian Classical Music is improvised and is based on a series of modal scales and tunes which must be memorized.
		Classical Iranian musical culture is thought to be complete by its participants with new creations being variations and rearrangements of old ones or parts thereof.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Iran

	Music [Definition]
		According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez Jean-Jacques Nattiez is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of Musicology at the University of Montreal.
		Music is often defined by contrast with noise In general usage, noise can be considered data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities.
		Generally music which is to be performed is produced as sheet music Sheet music is musical notation written down on paper; it is the musical analog of a book.
	www.wikimirror.com /Music

	Middle Eastern Music: A Very Brief Introduction
		Classical music, for the most part, was the enduring music with a level of musicality and intricacy that could strike a chord (so to speak) with serious music lovers.
		The best-known Arabic classical music is probably a song called Lamma Bada Yata Thanna, a fascinating piece of music done in the samai rhythm, which is written in 10/8.
		Persian classical music was featured along with classical dancers at court--the Persian equivalent, culturally speaking, of ballet.
	www.shira.net /musicintro.htm

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	Jazz Geography: Europe.
		Was the harmonic content of jazz influenced by European classical music and popular music of the day?
		Jazz musicians heard European music and many were familiar with the musical theories of European classical music.
		Jazz musicians used the musical instruments available in America, which were largely of European origin.
	town.hall.org /Archives/radio/Kennedy/Taylor/bt_euro.html (191 words)

	Listening to Indian Classical Music
		Besides bringing musical influences from other cultures, the Mughal empire encouraged the appreciation of music as an upper-class, court activity, in much the same way that European classical music was mainly supported by the court aristocracy through the Baroque and Classical periods.
		Western music tends to use only a few popular meters for almost all of its music, and these meters are usually felt as repetitions of two, three, or four beats.
		A listener educated in Indian classical music will be able to identify the raga and tala by listening to the music.
	cnx.org /content/m12502/latest (1875 words)

	Xonata: Classical music for the 21st century
		It should be tonal, and influenced by blues-based popular music and non-European music; it should strive for memorable melodies, accompanied by guitar-influenced harmonies and contemporary rhythms; it should adopt electronic instruments such as the electric guitar and the synthesiser; and it should accept that a recording can be the definitive version of a composer's work.
		Read our Manifesto for an in-depth discussion of where we think classical music has gone wrong, and what the solution is.
		We believe that classical music should aim to become more popular and more commercial.
	www.xonata.com (179 words)

	Chinese classical music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Chinese music is (additional info and facts about pentatonic) pentatonic- (additional info and facts about diatonic) diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an (A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse) octave (5+7 = 12) as does European-influenced music.
		Chinese classical music is the traditional (The creation of beautiful or significant things) art or court (additional info and facts about music of China) music of China.
		Chinese classical music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ch/Chinese_classical_music.htm (97 words)

	Chinese classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave (5+7 = 12) as does European-influenced music.
		Chinese classical music is the traditional art or court music of China.
		It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_classical_music (110 words)

	The Heaven Of Chinese Music
		Around 3,000 years ago, when European music was just experiencing its first rustlings of life, a complete musical theory and sophisticated musical instruments began appearing in China, owing largely to the orthodox ritual music advocated by Confucius.
		Influenced by this foreign-originating music, composers of the time modified and improved Chinese music.
		The variations of rhythm, beat, tone quality, and embellishments in Chinese music are highly distinctive and unlike their Western counterparts.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/2682/chmusic.html (275 words)

	Classical vs Popular Music
		Classical music of the 1930s was heavily influenced by a combination of the the French classical music of the 1820s, and of the big band music of the period ("Entertainment" 189).
		During the 1930s, classical music, also known as European concert music, was performed by jazz artists.
		He was popular for his excellent fusion of swing jazz and traditional classical music.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~vg/amst205.F97/vj04/p6c.html (350 words)

	Islam Music & Dance
		Side two is European music influenced by Arabic music: court music of the early Middle Ages and Renaissance, flamenco, and classical guitar.
		Persian Classical Music (from Duke University) tells of the influence of Persian music and its influence by Islamic rule - and the influence of Sufi poetry and music as an expression of religious mysticism and the release of the soul.
		The author tells us that the classical music can still be heard today, but he is worried about the mixing of the old forms with modern, so that the classical music and the skilled classical musicians might die out soon.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Music/Islam_Music_&_Dance.html (1726 words)

	Music of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, though to a European-influenced listener Koran chanting, such as the call to prayer or prayer formulas, is "music", it is not considered music in Iranian urban musical culture.
		Iranian Classical Music is improvised and is based on a series of modal scales and tunes which must be memorized.
		Classical Iranian musical culture is thought to be complete by its participants with new creations being variations and rearrangements of old ones or parts thereof.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Iran (1726 words)

	Definition of music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Musical change, stylistically, is thought of both as inevitable and necessary, or at least beneficiary in European influenced classical music and much popular music, while in classical Iranian culture music is thought to be complete, new creations are variations and rearrangements of old ones or parts of.
		Actually, there are varying degrees of "musicness"; Koran chanting and Adhan is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classical instrumental metric composition, and popular dance music are.
		There is the study of sound and vibration or acoustics, the cognitive study of music, the study of music theory and performance practice or music theory and ethnomusicology and the study of the reception and history of music, generally called musicology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Definition_of_music (3091 words)

	German music
		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.
		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.
		His legacy, either by example or in reaction against his concepts, equally dominated European music at the turn of the century.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /mmorris/402/Germany.htm (3091 words)

	Baja Prog Fest - Progressive Rock
		This music style draws many influences from classical music and jazz fusion, in contrast to American rock, which was more influenced by rhythm and blues and country.
		Progressive rock began in England and remained largely a European movement, although there are a few notable American and Canadian progressive rock bands.
		Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other "progressive" genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day.
	www.bajaprog.org /content/view/35/1 (427 words)

	Music of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Ferris, another music historian, called these composers "Yankee pioneers (who were) untouched by the influence of their sophisticated European contemporaries" and who were not entirely aware of the development of "tonality (as) the major harmonic system" of European classical music.
		African American folk music is a part of the Afro-American tradition, which extends across most of the Western Hemisphere, where elements of African, European and indigenous music mixed in varying amounts to form a wide array of diverse styles.
		In the early 20th century, George Gershwin was greatly influenced by African American music; however, this was during an era of legally enforced "Jim Crow" segregation during which his music perhaps enjoyed undue fame owing to the refusal of white listeners to listen to music that formed Gershwin's sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_the_United_States (427 words)

	bass_47 Bode Omojola. Nigerian Art Music
		Nigerian Art Music ist the first comprehensive book-lenght study of the works of those Nigerian composers, who have been trained in European conservatories and influenced by European classical music.
		Although written essentially with a readership of African musical students and scholars in mind, Nigerian Art Music is indispensable for intercultural musicologists.
		Bode Omojola's research is based on the analysis of more than 500 musical scores, abundant archival material and interviews with the most prominent Nigerian composers.
	www.uni-bayreuth.de /Afrikanologie/publikationen/bass_47.html (427 words)

	Music in Turkey. Turkish Music
		After the conquest of Istanbul, but prior to the period of classical music, Ottoman music was influenced by Byzantine music, mainly in the years 1640-1712.
		Intended reforms in the field of music during the Republican period led to debates on the subjects of European, Turkish, polyphonic and monophonic music.
		Turkey, rich in musical heritage, has developed this art in two areas, Turkish classical and Turkish folk music.
	www.antalya.ru /en/culture/music.shtml (663 words)

	Metal-Rules.com - European Metal vs. North American Metal
		European Metal lyrics deal with a lot of legends and fantasy stories involving evil and brave heroics, which are common themes for much Folk and Classical music.
		Based on my admittedly limited knowledge of European culture, it seems to me that the music scenes overseas are less influenced by the media and are thereby less susceptible to pop trends.
		My initial response to the question of "North American metal vs. European metal?" was a resounding, "who cares?" After all, not including hair rock, it is all heavy metal in the end anyway (and I refuse to include those idiot clods that think that Kid Cocksuck, Slipshit, and the rest are heavy metal).
	www.metal-rules.com /hell/hell_July2000.htm (3558 words)

	Forum IAP revisited
		In this case I think there is. Rock musicians work with meters, scales, harmonies and phrase-structures that are not too different from those found in classical music, which is no surprise, since European classical music is one of the musical genres that influenced American popular music.
		It would seems that this is a similar position to that taken by Gary Ansdell (interview, 2000) who has suggested that it is both possible and important to describe the music in music therapy improvisations before leaping to interpretation.
		Now I must say that when you consider the discourse in music therapy about music and meaning, one of the most confusing things to me is the way the concept of archetypes has been used in both the verbal discussions within the music therapy community and also in the literature.
	www.hisf.no /njmt/forumiap.html (3558 words)

	La Biennale - Dance - Program
		American and European teachers are regularly invited to teach in order to supply the pupils with the necessary instruments for the creation of a contemporary yet autonomous choreographic language, which takes into account its own cultural roots without imposing or overlaying the model of European or American dance upon the Chinese elements.
		Chengming Gao, artistic director of the Guangdong, joined the company in 1992 as teacher and choreographer in residence, undertaking studies in Chinese classical dance at the Beijing Academy, where he has also taught.
		choreography Liu Qi with Ouyang Wenliang, Liang Yu music Gus Gus
	www.labiennale.org /en/dance/program/2004/guangdong.html (3558 words)

	History of music - Music Encyclopedia
		Early music is a general term used to describe music in the European classical tradition from after the fall of the Roman Empire, in 476 CE, until the end of the Baroque era in the middle of the 18th century.
		Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical and concert music.
		During the 20th century, the term folk music took on a second meaning: it describes a particular kind of popular music which is culturally descended from or otherwise influenced by traditional folk music, such as with Bob Dylan and other singer-songwriters.
	www.music.bestdownload.biz /music/index.php?title=History_of_music (4746 words)

	Music of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Ferris, another music historian, called these composers "Yankee pioneers (who were) untouched by the influence of their sophisticated European contemporaries" and who were not entirely aware of the development of "tonality (as) the major harmonic system" of European classical music.
		In the early 20th century, George Gershwin was greatly influenced by African American music; however, this was during an era of legally enforced "Jim Crow" segregation during which his music perhaps enjoyed undue fame owing to the refusal of white listeners to listen to music that formed Gershwin's sources.
		Instead, the music of the United States is that of dozens or hundreds of indigenous and immigrant groups, all of which developed largely in regional isolation until the American Civil War, when people from across the country were brought together in army units, trading musical styles and practices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_the_United_States (6417 words)

	Music of Latin America
		There is also a record of the arrival of several musicians from Bohemia in the year 1853, who presented a symphonic concert of classical music on March 10 of that year.
		Extension of the pentatonic scale to the heptatonic, symmetrization of musical phrases, and introduction of traditional European harmony into popular music of Latin America.
		Native Cuban dances such as the Habanera, Guajira, Guaracha and Punto have been influenced notably by the Spanish culture while the Rumba, Conga and Son Afro-Cubano dances are primarily influenced by the African culture.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M151/Music_of_Latin_America1.html (1898 words)

	Atonality
		Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
		In the years that followed, atonality represented a challenge to many composers, and even those who did not prefer to write atonal music were influenced by it.
		Atonal music continues to be composed, and many atonal composers of the late 20th century are still alive and active.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Atonality (1452 words)

	Chord progression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chord progressions are central to most modern European-influenced music and create cyclic or sectional musical forms.
		The most common chord progressions in Western classical and pop music are based on the first, fourth, and fifth scale degrees (tonic, subdominant and dominant); see three chord song, eight bar blues, and twelve bar blues.
		The chord based on the second scale degree is used in the most common chord progression in Jazz, ii-V-I. Chord progressions are usually associated with a scale and the notes of each chord are usually taken from that scale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chord_progression (621 words)

	Turkish Embassy.org - Republic of Turkey
		After the conquest of Istanbul, but prior to the period of classical music, Ottoman music was influenced by Byzantine music, mainly in the years 1640-1712.
		Intended reforms in the field of music during the Republican period led to debates on the subjects of European, Turkish, polyphonic and monophonic music.
		When describing Turkish music today it is generally said that Ottoman composers availed themselves of the rich musical heritage found in the cultural centers of the Abbasid and the Timurogullari, where Turkish, Araband Iranian musicians performed and created music known as Ottoman court music.
	www.turkishembassy.org /artculture/music.htm (615 words)

	Music of Thailand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhythmically and metrically Thai music is steady in tempo, regular in pulse, divisive, in simple duple meter, without swing, with little syncopation (p.3, 39), and with the emphasis on the final beat of a measure or group of pulses and phrase (p.41), as opposed to the first as in European-influenced music.
		The music he soon helped to invent along with influential band Suntharaporn was called pleng Thai sakorn, which incorporated Thai melodies with Western classical music.
		Music flourished for the next few centuries, in spite of occasional oppression from monarchs like Rama I and the burning of Ayuthaya, including its art collections and libraries, in 1767 the result of which is a loss of most knowledge necessary to reconstruct the history of Thai music before the Bangkok period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Thailand (1094 words)

	Chinese classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave (5+7 = 12) as does European-influenced music.
		Chinese classical music is the traditional art or court music of China.
		It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_classical_music (120 words)

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