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	Western music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western music is a broad category of music that includes all musical genres that use a 12-note chromatic scale, including Western classical music, rock and roll, and many other forms of popular music.
		The word Western may be misleading; although much of this music came from Europe and North America, important contributions have come from places like Russia, Japan, and Australia.
		Western music developed out of the creatively fertile framework of Western philosophy that had its birthplace in ancient Greece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_music (144 words)

	Classical Music - A short history
		Western music also benefits from various dualities: sacred and secular traditions; monophonic and polyphonic textures; conservative and progressive tendencies; popularism and elitism; canon and non-canonic works; and other polarities.
		The high baroque music of the eighteenth century was dominated by the genius of Bach and Handel.
		Later in the century, the Classic style of Haydn and Mozart dominated the music of Western Europe, with the symphony, sonata, and string quartet predominating, and the sonata principle at the core of musical structure.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/musical_history.html (1000 words)

	Middle Eastern Music: A Very Brief Introduction
		Music in general is a very subtle, very complex subject, and it's difficult to render a discussion of it into writing.
		In typical Western music, there are 12 possible notes to choose from: A, A Sharp (also known as B Flat), B, C, C Sharp (also known as D Flat), D, D Sharp (also known as E Flat), E, F, F Sharp (also known as G Flat), G, and G Sharp (also known as A Flat).
		Western music makes extensive use of chords, which are constructed according to certain rules from the notes in the scale that the song is in.
	www.shira.net /musicintro.htm (3815 words)

	UH Manoa - WESTERN MUSIC ENSEMBLES
		The contemporary music ensemble at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa is a group of ensembles within an ensemble.
		The group has three main musical purposes: to perform some of the finest transcriptions of the greatest classical and choral repertoire, to bring to the forefront the best original and jazzy works for trombone ensemble, and to be a performance vehicle for new works written by local composers and student composers.
		The course is focused on the study and performance of scenes from opera, operetta, and musical theatre and culminates in the staged performance of these scenes with costumes, makeup, simple sets, and lighting effects.
	www.hawaii.edu /uhmmusic/ewestern.htm (1378 words)

	DoveSong.com
		The term positive music was coined by Don Robertson in 1968, when he first realized that just as there are both negative and positive emotions, there are positive and negative types of music.
		Just as there is music of a positive nature, there is also negative music, and (as ancient philosophers stated) during times of turmoil and confusion, negative music can rear its head.
		We have made available some of the greatest music known in the world, such as the original Black and Southern gospel music from 78 records (not available in anywhere else); treasures from the classical music of India, China and Persia; and treasures of Renaissance sacred music and Gregorian chant.
	www.dovesong.com (535 words)

	Western Music
		Taken together, they reveal where western music came from, and what it sounded like as it began to forge an identity of its own in those years before it became a national phenomenon.
		Western music seems to be running the course of many other genres of music -- it all gets to sounding the same after a while.
		She conveys the feeling of what this music is supposed to be about -- wide open spaces, a type of life style and a particular type humor indigenous to the west.
	www.lonehand.com /music.htm (1309 words)

	American Cowboy magazine: Western Music Awakening
		Western, best known as the writer and performer of the smash hit theme song “The Ballad of Palladin,” for the classic television Western series Have Gun Will Travel, is one of the most accomplished cowboy singers living today.
		The chief executive officer of Wildcatter is Mickey Dawes, a Western music performer himself and former president of the Western Music Association.
		According to Dawes, “If you look back at the time when Western music and Western movies were at their height, people were struggling to find heroes, and when those performers were at the top of their game, we had Western heroes and high quality song content, too.
	www.americancowboy.com /jf04/music_jf04.shtml (2140 words)

	Music Notation - Musical notation codes
		Meloz music tablature is a music notation proposal that is specific for keyboard instruments.
		Sister Betsy recorded Music of Angels in a Shaker system of notation known as "small letteral notation." Developed by Shaker leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century, this system replaced traditional note values with letters.
		Coptic Music Web Site: Some old Coptic hymn manuscript (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus) was found from this age having coloured circles with different shapes and colours over the Coptic text of the hymn.
	www.music-notation.info /en/compmus/musicnotation.html (1481 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102
		And it was during the Middle Ages that western culture saw the arrival of the first great name in music, Guillaume de Machaut.
		With the rise of humanism, sacred music began for the first time to break free of the confines of the Church, and a school of composers trained in the Netherlands mastered the art of polyphony in their settings of sacred music.
		Of course, secular music thrived during this period, and instrumental and dance music was performed in abundance, if not always written down.
	www.ipl.org /div/mushist (1587 words)

	country and western music
		The primary traditional difference between the two styles is that country music is simpler and uses fewer instruments, relying on guitar, fiddle, banjo, and harmonica, whereas the music of the Southwest tends toward steel guitars and big bands whose style verges on swing (e.g., The Light Crust Doughboys).
		, is a style of country and western music distinguished by a driving, syncopated rhythm, high-pitched vocals, and an emphasis on the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle.
		Country and western music is directly descended from the folk songs, ballads, and popular songs of the English, Scottish, and Irish settlers of the U.S. southeastern seaboard.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0813789.html (457 words)

	Travel USA Travel - Country & Western Music - USA Tourist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the colonies grew, the population diversified, and many other types of music were imported and absorbed into the culture of this new country called the United States of America.
		Country western music is still the most popular music of the rural folks in the USA.
		If you want to really experience Country Western music in the USA, you can visit Nashville Tennessee to attend a performance at the Grand Ole Opry or to hang out in a few of the honky tonk bars on Broad Street listening to the country stars of tomorrow.
	www.usatourist.com /english/inside/countrymusic.html (1092 words)

	MetroActive Music \| DJ Cheb i Sabbah
		In electronic music, as in food, films and nearly every other product of our alternately authenticity-craving and authenticity-annihilating global culture, the whole world is up for grabs.
		The irony of this music is that it can represent both a pomo cosmopolitan smorgasbord where everything from every culture and era is up for grabs and a longing to escape from exactly that kind of international homogenization.
		Beyond that, Western dilettantes in search of Eastern wisdom have always looked for spiritual solace in the traditional musics of far less affluent countries--the dread Enigma and their mournfully chanting monks have become the soundtrack to the crystal-hawking bookstores that litter our gullible nation.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/05.24.99/electronic-9919.html (1812 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Western music, even going back to the Middle Ages, has placed a great emphasis on the individual creators of music.
		In the Renaissance, composers such as Josquin and Palestrina were hailed as "princes" of music.
		The lives of these composers tell us a great deal about the history of music and the music they created.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/composers.html (202 words)

	Western Region, American Music Therapy Association, Inc.
		The purpose of this organization is the advancement of music therapy within the western region.
		AMTA strives towards the progressive development of the therapeutic use of music in rehabilitation, special education, and community settings.
		Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program (AMTA, 2005).
	www.wramta.org (112 words)

	Music
		Formerly known as the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar Sonneck (1873-1928), pioneering scholar and bibliographer of American music and head of the Music Division of the Library of Congress from 1902 to 1917.
		Explores the full breadth of Puerto Rican music, with descriptions of native music genres including danza, folk music, plena, bomba, and salsa, as well as related genres such as the Cuban son, merengue, bolero, and jazz.
		There are descriptions and photos of native musical instruments and an extensive collection of artist biographies (mostly Puerto Ricans) from all genres, each with a discography, photo, and sample audio clips of their music.
	www.library.ucsb.edu /subjects/music/music.html (5510 words)

	Cowboy music and western music, cowboy singers Don Edwards, Sons of the San Joaquin, Wiley Gustafson, Norman Blake, and ...
		Cowboy music and western music, cowboy singers Don Edwards, Sons of the San Joaquin, Wiley Gustafson, Norman Blake, and Waddie Mitchell, cowboy poet.
		This is true foot tapping music - a collection of songs from an authentic western cowboy.
		Cowboy music by Don Edwards, Sons of the San Joaquin, Waddie Mitchell, Norman Blake, Nancy Blake, Wylie Gustafson (Wylie and the Wild West), Rich O'Brien, Katy Moffatt, Tom Morell, Cowboy Celtic, Cowboy Nation, Red Steagall, David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic
	www.westernjubilee.com (395 words)

	Music Analysis - Journal Information
		Music Analysis is the international forum for the presentation of new writing focused on musical works and repertoires.
		Through articles of this kind and through its lively Critical Forum, it also aims to take forward debates concerning the relationship of technical commentary on music with music theory, critical theory, music history and the cognitive sciences.
		Music Analysis is eclectic in its coverage of music from medieval to post-modern times, and has regular articles on non-western music.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /journal.asp?ref=0262-5245 (174 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A History of Western Music, Sixth Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are discussions of how major historical trends shaped music (most notably the spread of Christianity) and plenty of color plates showing works of art contemporary to the pieces being discussed.
		From the earliest music through the end of the Romantic era, the text is extroardinarily comprehensive, very engaging, and speaks a language of lucidity and detail.
		Their INsensitivity nearly killed classical music in the 70s) As with any textbook, deadlines must limit speculation--there will undoubtedly be a 7th edition to address more changes in our musical world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393975274?v=glance (1704 words)

	Western Music Association
		As a result, the Western Music Association was incorporated in Arizona in 1989 and has presented its International Western Music Festival in Tucson, Arizona every November since 1989.
		In large part due to the continued efforts of the WMA and its performing members, Western Music has experienced phenomenal membership growth and visibility and continues to gain in popularity and enjoy and ever increasing worldwide audience.
		Recently, articles on Western Music have appeared in such national publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, the front page of the Billboard Magazine, and in publications in countries such as Britain, France, Austria, Algeria, and Italy.
	www.cowboyoutfitters.com /cowboyoutfitters/chwma.html (460 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fourth Edition, Volume 2: Classic to Modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century by J.
		This is the second volume of the Norton Anthology of Western Music.
		Although the CD set does not contain all music of the two volumes, it does contain a good protion of it(about 60-70%) and has a user friendly, easy to understand cross-reference system with the two volumes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393976912?v=glance (1014 words)

	Roots66: Music: Western Bands
		The saga is an authentic western opera, uniquely absorbing and moving, and like the story itself is tied together with a musical arrangement rustically guiding the listener through the dramatic progression of each chapter.
		Song and music are as natural to him as the songbirds that sing outside his home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.
		The Sounds of Texas Music Series A unique concert series in Conroe, TX, that combines exclusive artist pairings with the perfect acoustics of an historic theatre that hosts plays and musicals that are performed unmiked, but easily heard in the last row of the balcony.
	www.roots66.com /roots66/music/west/index.shtml (1120 words)

	Western Canadian Music Awards
		The 3rd annual Western Canadian Music Awards in Vancouver promises to be an exciting event of national and international significance.
		The Western Canadian Music Festival will feature more than 100 live acts and will be held in premiere venues in downtown Vancouver.
		The Western Canadian Music Festival will feature more than 60 live acts and will be held in premiere venues in downtown Vancouver.
	www.westerncanadianmusicawards.ca (776 words)

	The Classical Music Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.
		It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional - decide for yourself how deeply you follow the links.
		Music is often based on or related to literature and painting.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/classmus.html (222 words)

	MCMAHOF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To promote Country Music, in all its various categories and names, in a manner that shall keep it clean, wholesome, enjoyable and pleasurable form of entertainment for all people.
		This award is presented with the cooperation of the Maine Country Music Association and the MacKenzie Family.
		The award is presnted to a person or persons who have proven their devotion to Traditional Country Music.
	www.crosslink.net /~bigmack9/mcmahof.htm (367 words)

	The Cambridge Society for Early Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Cambridge Society for Early Music was founded by the noted harpsichordist and musicologist Erwin Bodky, who introduced performances of pre-Classical European music to the general public at Harvard College in the late 1940s.
		Our mission is to entertain, enlighten, educate and, in general, promote the rich musical culture of five centuries of Western music occurring up to the early nineteenth century.
		The Cambridge Society for Early Music gratefully acknowledges the Massachusetts Cultural Council and WGBH for their generous support.
	www.csem.org (166 words)

	Music Library Association (MLA) Clearinghouse
		The Music Publishers' Association (MPA) Sales Agency List is comprised of a current directory of music publishers and an index of publisher's imprints.
		Principles of Music Uniform Titles, a Brief Introduction is a document prepared by Matthew W. Wise for readers and users of music library catalog records
		Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 gives information about the provisionally approved Western Music script for the Unicode standard of computer text representation (ISO 10646).
	www.music.indiana.edu /tech_s/mla/index.htm (808 words)

	The Norton Anthology of Western Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From Adam (de la Halle) to Zwilich (Ellen), The Norton Anthology of Western Music provides a comprehensive collection of scores illustrating every significant trend, genre, and national school.
		These authoritative readings are reproduced from reliable and easy-to-read originals, and all foreign-language texts are accompanied by English translations.
		Each work in the anthology is discussed in A History of Western Music and included on the accompanying CD set.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/titles/music/nawm4/overview.htm (114 words)

	HUSIC HISTORY LINKS
		Civil War Poetry and Music - poems and songs of the Civil War (Union and Confederate) about battles, generals, life in camp and at home, Lee, Lincoln, and the postwar era.
		European Musical Heritage Class - contains research projects done by student in a course that surveys the history of Western music.
		Society for Ethnomusicology - promotes the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.
	www.cannylink.com /musichistory.htm (165 words)

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