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	Classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day.
		The public taste for and appreciation of formal music of this type is often described as having waned through the later part of the 20th century and into the present millennium, particularly in the USA and UK, although it continues to thrive elsewhere in the world.
		Classical music is these days considered primarily a written musical tradition, preserved in music notation, as opposed to being transmitted orally, by rote, or in recordings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_classical_music (2679 words)

	HyperMusic -- History of Classical Music: Classical
		Thus, in the music world, the patronage system of the Baroque began to die out and was replaced by the first public concerts where people paid to attend.
		Instead of the sudden changes in style and trills of Baroque music, the music of the Classical period tended to be simple, balanced, and non-emotional.
		Known as absolute music, classical works were written for their own sake, not for dancing or any other special occasion.
	www.hypermusic.ca /hist/classical.html (211 words)

	Classical Period in Music
		Music historians, however, use the term to mean a specific style and period in music history, roughly 1750 to 1825, that followed the baroque era and preceded the romantic.
		The rococo left its mark on music in the form of light and delicate textures, profusely ornamented melodies, and an elegant sentimentality; it is often referred to as the style galant.
		An essential characteristic of classical music is a balance between the content of the music and the form in which it is expressed.
	www.indiamusicinfo.com /new/music/classical.html (1178 words)

	European classical music Summary
		Classical, about 1730–1820, an important era which established many of the norms of composition, presentation and style.
		Finally, while equal temperament became gradually accepted as the dominant musical tuning during the 19th century, different historical temperaments are often used for music from earlier periods.
		Classical music needs to be heard in houses all around the world.
	www.bookrags.com /European_classical_music (2680 words)

	Classical music: French Opera
		Musical Europe – as we have seen – is a unity, with composers and musicians from several nations benefiting from cross-cultural experience in such great artistic capitals as Venice, Paris, Vienna, London.
		Described as a supreme courtier and intriguer he wrote 20 ballets and operas and took French opera out of its aristocratic origin and made it a popular art.
		He was a lofty idealist with a leaping imagination and his music has a distinctive sound with its rhythmic fluctuations and themes superimposed on each other –with plenty of brass!
	www.euroresidentes.com /Blogs/classical_music/2005/11/french-opera.html (424 words)

	Classical Music and Romantic Music - Part One
		The idea of "Classicism" means a rather imprecise adherence to the classical period of the past, pertaining in the West to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.
		The Classical era is also the age of the American and French Revolutions, of Napoleon and the transformation of the map of Europe, and of the rationalistic and confident world of the Enlightenment.
		All of this was reflected in the music of the Romantic era, an era in which the bourgeois salon largely replaced the aristocratic court as the principal theater of cultural activity.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/Romantic_Music1.html (2976 words)

	Arab music: genres
		Arab classical music is essentially the Andalusian music of the 10th to 15th centuries.
		It is extremely complicated in musical structure, and its lyrics are characterised by the strict use of the Andalusian dialect or classical Arabic.
		The music of the Gnawa is a powerful mixture of religious Arabic songs and African rhythms, trance music tinged with mysticism.
	www.al-bab.com /arab/music/genres.htm (1223 words)

	Classical Net Review - The Very Best of Grappelli & Menuhin
		Grappelli, who died in 1997, began his musical life as a devotee of French classical music, but it wasn't long before he was hooked on jazz.
		It was music for dancing and music that almost made it possible to forget the political rumblings east of France.
		Whatever Yehudi Menuhin touches becomes music, and his eclectic interests (remember his advocacy of Indian classical music) made him a perfect partner for Grappelli.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/emi66830a.html (419 words)

	"Classical" Music
		Generically, classical music refers to the music of the artistic tradition of Europe, and later the Americas, distinct from the folk tradition of these same places.
		Classical music is divided into four generally recognized periods: the Baroque (1600-1750), the Classical (1750-1820), the Romantic (1820-1920), and the Modern (1900-present).
		Certainly the music of the Baroque Era was intricate, though hardly irregular, as an almost geometrical symmetry seemed to prevail in the compositions of this period.
	www.stmoroky.com /reviews/music/classic.htm (1307 words)

	The Arts in France - French Music
		The chief musical forms of this period were the motet--now little resembling its medieval ancestor--and the cyclic mass.
		Nevertheless, many French composers were active during the Renaissance--for example, Jean Mouton (c.1475-1522) and Pierre Certon (c.1510-72)--but their music was overshadowed by that of the Flemish and Italians.
		Music by French composers consisted mostly of inferior operas or empty, virtuosic salon pieces.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/DF_music.shtml (1795 words)

	ASA 148th Meeting Lay Language Papers -English and French classical music reflect the melody and rhythm of speech in ...
		We found that the nPVI of English music was significantly higher, on average, than that of French music.
		Using the same databases of speech and music, we asked if there was a difference between English and French intonation which was reflected in the music of the two nations.
		To see if this difference between the two languages was reflected in music, we turned to our database of turn-of-the-century composers, and examined the same set of musical themes which we had previously analyzed for rhythm.
	www.aip.org /148th/patel.html (1515 words)

	USIA, U.S. Society & Values, June 1998 - Conversation with Gary Burton on the U.S. pop music scene
		That was very much a result of the music festivals put on by public radio and public television down there, and broadcasting from there.
		Don't forget, many countries have their own versions of innocuous local pop music that may be playing on the national radio stations, and the more serious listeners will be listening to either classical music or jazz or major pop artists like Sting or Paul Simon.
		Music is one of the most basic experiences for human beings.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/0698/ijse/garyburt.htm (3277 words)

	Sony Classical - Music
		He was an especially prolific composer of chamber music, apparently writing as many as 100 string quintets and 100 string quartets alone.
		The limited range of music composed specifically for the flute has led him to discover and explore long-forgotten music, such as the Boccherini quintets, as well as to inspire and commission new works.
		SONY CLASSICAL and the Sony Classical logo are registered trademarks of, and are used under license from, Sony Corporation.
	www.sonyclassical.com /music/62679/main.html (354 words)

	Classical Net Review - Bernstein - Modern French Music
		More important, however, was the immense influence of Stravinsky on him, both in his composing and in the formation of his musical taste.
		She's one of the few "speakers" (Madeline Milhaud, the composer's wife, was another) who not only managed to keep a composer's rhythm – she was a star of the Ballets Russes – but also performed credibly in the French classical dramatic style.
		But one hears something more as well – a sense of measure, a classical balance of form, and a rhythmic and orchestral approach highly influential on many French and French-resident composers of the time.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/s/sny62352a.html (899 words)

	The Resurgence of Classical FM Radio in Canada
		Furthermore, Radio-Nord is preparing, in partnership with an executive of the Montreal Jazz Festival, an application to the CRTC for a 24-hour smooth jazz station on an unused FM frequency previously allocated to the Montreal area.
		Audiences for classical music are everywhere, not just in the bigger urban centres.
		Thus classical and jazz listeners may rightfully demand that the broadcasting industry serve their requirements better than is done now-- and not just serve those who listen to popular and country formats.
	www.scena.org /Tms/Tms1-1/resurgence.htm (829 words)

	Music - CD and music reviews, news and clips - Boston.com
		Paul Green, a hopped-up guru who roams the halls restlessly, tells instructors that "you suck" are the two most important words in their vocabulary.
		He has a maniacal laugh, a passion for classic rock, and an edgy vision of music education that's producing some impressive results.
		The Vinyl Skyway's "From Telegraph Hill" is is lush, summery music with ambrosial harmonies and melodies so opulent that you barely realize you're humming along to one colossal bummer after another.
	www.boston.com /ae/music (456 words)

	French Classical ? Coming to a wavelength near you...
		Classical music lovers from Vancouver to St. John''s will be able to tune in to Debussy and Dvorak, broadcast en fran?ais, s''il vous pla?t.
		The ultimate goal is to reach 50% of francophones in all provinces, but Lafrance also hopes to appeal to a growing public of non-francophones willing to bask in the sound of the French language.
		Andr?e Girard, director of programming at la Cha?ne Culturelle, explains that 85% of airtime will be filled with broadcasts of mostly classical music but also including some jazz and popular and traditional French song.
	www.scena.org /Tms/Tms1-1/french_classical_music.htm (564 words)

	FrenchQuarter.com: French Quarter Music Stores
		The lack of formality that pervades New Orleans’ live music scene also distinguishes the city’s most rewarding retail music shops, most of which are located within blocks of one another in the French Quarter, and all of which are small spaces crammed with specialty offerings that make deep inroads into one musical genre or another.
		The second floor attic is a regular stop for collectors of vinyl who come to peruse the vast, diverse and often rare assortments of quality second-hand albums, which tend heavily toward obsolete jazz.
		The Louisiana Music Factory is a tremendous resource for many local artists who produce and sell their own CDs, which are only available for sale directly through them at their respective gigs or at LMF.
	www.frenchquarter.com /shopping/MusicStores.php (883 words)

	NetHead Kids - Music - Classical
		rondos) and music for piano and orchestra; the teaching side of his career is represented by the studies, preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, impromptus and mazurkas, polished pieces of moderate difficulty.
		From the summer of 1997 to the early autumn of 1999, while its theatre is being developed, the company is performing at a variety of venues in London.
		Dazzling artists, music by some of world's foremost composers, passionate drama and spectacular sets and costumes are all a part of our 1998-99 season.
	netheadkids.com /kidsmusic_classical.htm (779 words)

	CD Baby: Switzerland: Classical
		A musical and compositional concept of reduction and repetition.
		Compelling, engaging and bewitching contemporary classical music for solo voice with piano.
		Classical Interpretations on panflute and piano with a touch of rumanian folkmusic.
	www.cdbaby.com /places/5CH0?cat=4 (661 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Of all the unsavory aspects of French police going around the country busting orchestras and locking up their conductors or managers, it is the notion that it's being done to protect these innocent violin-playing lambs from Sofia that drips heaviest with irony.
		That this means smallish French towns get no opera, or get it only when heavy public subsidies are made available for it, concerns them not at all.
		Miller does, that productions such as the "Don Giovanni" he was conducting "make the French economy turn a little faster than it would otherwise." The musicians stay in hotels and spend money; stage crews are put to work on the shows, and others may find incremental work on the peripheries of tours such as these.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110006427 (1040 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Gramophone's Choice: French Music on CD
		Gramophone magazine, the world's leading classical music magazine, has selected some of the best classical music recordings from the Universal Music catalogue (Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and Decca/London) to celebrate its 80th birthday.
		Les Talens Lyriques respond admirably to this music, relishing every bar of it in performances which are refined in ensemble and articulate in speech.
		Elegantly mixing the miniature and large-scale, the radiant and despondent, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet shows himself a genial, stylish and enviably fleet Chopin interpreter.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/03gramschoice.html (469 words)

	French Culture \| books :
		There are dozens of classical music festivals across France from May to October.
		Important baroque music festival on weekends will feature three Monteverdi operas, major works by Bach, concerts around the theme of Charles the Fifth (celebrating the 500th anniverrsary of his birth).
		The main French classical music magazines are Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason, Repertoire and Classica.
	info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/festivals.html (372 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES MP3/WMA: Sergei Dmitriev
		In his music, Dmitriev strives to unite the Russian dramatic shape with some aspects of Western post-modern timbres, as well as to emphasize a processional sensation through the timing of his music.
		This means that you can submit a media file of any public domain music or that of copyrighted compositions if you have the permission from the appropriate copyright holder.
		Note that this notice refers in particular to the score of the pieces and not to the media files themselves which are copyrighted by their respective creator at the moment of the performance - whether live or step-by-step or mixed.
	www.classicalarchives.com /artists/dmitrievs.html (802 words)

	Classical Music Forum (washingtonpost.com)
		Tim Page is the chief classical music critic for The Washington Post and the author or editor of a dozen books, including "Dawn Powell: A Biography," "The Glenn Gould Reader," "The Unknown Sigrid Undset," "William Kapell: A Documentary Life History of the American Pianist" and the forthcoming "Tim Page on Music" (Amadeus Press).
		Classical music in pop culture: Raising my hand as a Gen Xer who first heard "The Barber of Seville" on Bugs Bunny cartoons.
		English classical music (Handel, etc., who was at least sort of English).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A28088-2004Jul30.html (2996 words)

	Classical Music from WGBH Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Recorded in December 2005, the group performed instrumental music by Biber and Scheidt as well as a solo cantata by Bruhns with tenor Frank Kelley.
		But French composer Francis Poulenc (shown) wrote music for The Story of Babar during the Nazi occupation of France, casting the story in the darker surroundings of its time.
		One of the great traditions in classical music continues with the New Year's Day from Vienna concert, this year with conductor Zubin Mehta (shown) leading the Vienna Philharmonic.
	www.wgbh.org /classical (582 words)

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		J.M. A very fine collection of what is described as "French Classical Music from 1650 to 1800" (almost 200 works including motets and operettas), for soloists and/or chamber ensembles, has been made available through the facsimile publications of Éditions J.M. Fuzeau in France, edited by Jean Saint-Arroman.
		Johnson is the director of the Texas Early Music Project and on staff at the Amherst Early Music Festival.
		The Early Music Brings History Alive Award, for outstanding educational outreach in early music, was presented to Nottingham Fair, directed by Betsy Blachly and Henry Chapin of New York City, an ensemble which has contributed greatly to bringing the wonders and delights of medieval and renaissance music and dance to young children.
	www.continuo.com /october98/btl.htm (2710 words)

	K-Mozart 105.1 Southern California's #1 Classical Radio Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She has produced and hosted many national programs for Public Radio International, and has a special affinity for 20th century A merican and French classical music.
		She began playing flute at age 9, and fell in love with opera, blues, Beethoven, and 60s era jazz by the time she was a teenager.
		Stellar blues, jazz and swing, and Putamayo is donating a portion of the proceeds to the New Orleans area Habitat for Humanity in support of their Musicians Village Project.
	www.kmozart.com /music/hosts_brandiparisi.asp (367 words)

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