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b. 1958 French cellist Coin studied the cello in Caen, at the Paris Conservatoire, and in Vienna with Harnoncourt. He studied the viola da gamba at the Basle Schola Cantorum, 1977–79. He played with the Vienna Concentus Musicus, Hesperion XX and the Academy of Ancient Music, 1977–83. Since 1984 he has followed a career as a ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

opera Iphigénie en Tauride (1779). Berlioz was the first composer to specify a cymbal struck with beaters. A suspended cymbal can also be scraped lightly with a metal beater or coin, as in Claude Debussy’s (1862–1918) La Mer (1905), or played with a cello or double-bass bow, which allows the higher harmonics in the cymbal to sound and give ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

feet. Shocked, she claims that she was only trying to increase his passion. Rangoni foresees his success. Act IV News has reached Moscow of Dmitry’s approach. Urchins steal a coin from a holy fool, who stops Boris on the steps of St Basil’s Cathedral and asks him to kill them as he murdered the young Dmitry. He refuses to ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

was not until November 1853 that Wagner felt able to make a start on the music, employing the leitmotif technique ineluctably bound up with his name. Wagner did not coin this term and did not even sanction it, preferring instead to speak of ‘melodic elements’ and ‘fundamental motifs’ to describe the musical ideas that acquire a specific associative meaning ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

known in the 1950s through his many recordings. He is widely admired for his performances of the sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Christophe Coin | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

acts like Underground Resistance, Aux 88 and Drexciya, were all influenced by Kraftwerk, but developed their own distinctive styles. Not only was Atkins the first producer to coin the term ‘techno’ for his sci-fi obsessed dance floor material, he also put out tracks like ‘Clear’ and ‘Alleys Of Your Mind’ as Cybotron, setting Detroit’s influential electro ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Although he did not coin the term ‘rock’n’roll’ – which was an African-American slang term for sex – New York disk jockey Alan Freed did popularize it when he attached it to a teen-oriented form of music that evolved from a fusion of rockabilly, R&B and, to a lesser extent, gospel and boogie-woogie. In its early forms, ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

When Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family became country music’s first superstars in 1927, their audience was the farmers, miners, wives and other blue-collar workers of the rural South. It was an audience that left school early for a life of hard work in isolated communities. When those men and women gathered at a tavern or schoolroom on ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

Country music is identified with the American South and West, but its roots were established on the Atlantic seaboard, from Cape Breton to New England, then filtered into the lower-central USA through the 2,400-km 1,500-mile) Appalachian mountain range. Eventually it proliferated everywhere. And if such a reach seems so vast as to defy a single culture ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

brand of auto-destructive art into his act. It was clear that neither wanted to be accused of copycatting by following the other on stage. The matter was settled by a coin toss – Townshend won and The Who went on first. The band finished their 30-minute set with total destruction and Hendrix his by ritually burning his guitar. Townshend subsequently experienced ...

Source: The Who Revealed, by Matt Kent

brief, farcical operas in the exalted surroundings of the Opéra. This was closely linked to constitutional, political and religious disputes of the time, which led to the coin du roi (‘king’s corner’) asserting the noble traditions of the tragédie lyrique and criticizing the Italians’ emphasis on the aria and the feebleness of recitative, while the coin de ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

involvement with Zen philosophy led to his gradual withdrawal as a willed agent in his pieces and the introduction of the use of chance events, such as tossing a coin, to determine their fabric. Resistant to anything that smacked of goal-directedness, in 1952 Cage produced 4’33’’, a piece that comprised four minutes 33 seconds of silence, during ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

The euphonium (the name is coined from Greek and means ‘sweet-voiced’) is a brass instrument with a compass of three octaves. Developed from the bass saxhorn, it has a wide conical profile and an upward-facing bell. Although prototypes were known in Germany in the 1820s and an instrument was patented in 1838 by Carl Moritz of Berlin, the first ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Musique concrète (‘concrete music’) was the term coined by Pierre Schaeffer (1910–95) in 1948 to describe his new approach to composition, based on tape recordings of natural and industrial sounds. The term was chosen to distinguish the new genre from pure, abstract music (musique abstrait). Schaeffer was a radio engineer and broadcaster. Having gained a qualification from L’École Polytechnique ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Across the centuries and around the globe, many different forms of music have enjoyed mass appeal for a limited period of time. None, however, have been able to match the widespread influence of the popular music that erupted in America during the mid-1950s and, by the second half of the decade, was exerting its grip over ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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