began with 1966’s ‘Along Comes Mary’. Next up were ‘Cherish’ and ‘Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies’. After ‘Windy’ reached No. 1 and ‘Never My Love’ did nearly the same, The Association enjoyed another two domestic smashes in 1968, ‘Everything That Touches You’ and ‘Time For Livin’’ (their only UK Top 40 strike). Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities ...
music of those countries. This is particularly true of France, where it ranks to this day, in national stereotyping, just below bérets and louche moustaches. Despite its association with popular music, it has quite often found its way into concert-hall compositions by, among others, Berg, Prokofiev, Mátyás Seiber, Paul Creston, Roy ...
popular entertainment among soldiers, who took back home with them their appreciation of the banjo. Playing Styles The banjo’s big break came with the growth of parlour music. This association lifted the instrument from its links with the lower classes and brought it to almost universal attention. By this time, two distinct styles of playing had developed. The traditional ...
guitarist and inventor Les Paul. Paul had built his so-called ‘log’ guitar out of a simple, solid block of wood with an attached neck in the early 1940s. His association with Gibson was to produce another iconic instrument – the Gibson Les Paul of 1952. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Electric Bass Guitar | Electric & Electronic ...
for the electric tonal qualities of the sound produced by internal pick-ups. Semi-acoustic guitars, such as the classic Gibson ES-335 of 1958 and the ES-175, have a long association with rock’n’roll and jazz. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Electric Guitar | Electric & Electronic ...
clear why the vihuela gained such popularity in Renaissance Spain at a time when the rest of Europe used the lute for the same purposes. Nevertheless, the guitar’s strong association with Spain began at this time, and the Spanish passion for the vihuela was responsible for its introduction to Latin America during the colonization of that part of the ...
created a powerful, even raucous, noise; it was consequently associated with loud outdoor music, particularly ceremonial music and processionals. There were quiet shawms, but its strong association with trumpets and drums, as well as sackbuts and cornetts, remains to this day. The early-music movement has created a shawm revival, and the instrument can be heard ...
pressure. The first exclusively bellows-powered organ followed some 400 years later. By the eighth century, organs were being built in Europe, and by the tenth century, their association with the church had been established. Despite its great antiquity, the underlying principles of the organ remained essentially unchanged between AD 250 and the advent of electronic instruments in ...
hammer is enabled to fall away from the string while the activating key is still depressed. Stein’s enthusiastic endorsement by Mozart in 1777 set the seal on the perennially fruitful association of piano builders with the leading composers of the day. In old age, his business was mainly carried on by his daughter Nanette (herself a pianist of genius, ...
the trombone became a vital part of both sacred and courtly music. During the seventeenth century – perhaps due to its burnished and melancholy timbre – the trombone developed an association with death and the underworld, a link that Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) put to good use in L’Orfeo (1607). Interest in the instrument declined, however, and by the ...
b. 1944 New Zealand soprano Having come to England to study at the London Opera Centre, Te Kanawa made her Covent Garden debut as the Countess (Mozart’s Figaro) in 1971. Appearances quickly followed at Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and the Salzburg Festival. She became increasingly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, especially the roles ...
by Hans Richter, the first conductor of Wagner’s Ring and by now living mainly in England. Richter decided to give the premiere (19 June 1899). Thus began a close association, resulting in the dedication of Elgar’s First Symphony to Richter and Elgar’s agreeing to succeed him as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1911. After the ‘Enigma’ triumph ...
merged southern country rock with contemporary sounds, ended the dominance enjoyed by The Oak Ridge Boys and The Statler Brothers in both the charts and the annual Country Music Association awards. The Midas Touch Formed originally in 1969 as Young Country, then Wildcountry, by Gentry, Cook and Owen plus drummers Bennett Vartanian (until 1976) and Mark Herndon ...
which was an especially difficult time for blues, as arena rock captured the commercial airwaves and disco claimed clubs that had patronized live music. However, thanks to an association he made with a young guitarist and fan named Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Austin, Texas club Armadillo World Headquarters, King would again experience something of a renaissance. ...
known to the general public, Hogan’s Heroes regularly attracts star names to jam with them. Lee has also worked frequently with Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings. Because of his long association with the Fender instrument, Lee has become known as ‘Mr Telecaster’, although he has also played Gibson guitars, an Ernie Ball Music Man and a Stratocaster from time ...
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