(Vocal/instrumental group, 1992–present) Like The Cowsills and The Jacksons, Hanson was a band of brothers. Based in Tulsa, Isaac, Taylor and Zac began playing together as children and by 1992 tried to break into the music business. It was not until 1997 they began to score hits with refreshing and sophisticated pop songs like ‘MMMBop’, ‘Where’s The ...
Music for many years, where he made a notable reputation as promoter of American music. Recommended Recording: Symphony No. 2, op. 30, ‘Romantic’, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra (cond) Howard Hanson (Mercury) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Roy Harris | Modern Era | Classical ...
This has ranged from the teeny-bop product of The Osmonds and Bay City Rollers in the 1970s, Wham! and New Kids On The Block in the 1980s and Hanson and The Spice Girls in the 1990s, to the catchy Europop sounds of ABBA, the homogenous, production-line-type output of British songwriting/production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman ...
life he invented machines for producing ‘free music’. Recommended Recording: A Lincolnshire Posy, RNCM Wind Orchestra (cond) Timothy Reynish (Chandos) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Howard Hanson | Modern Era | Classical ...
(1996) The Dolls discovered their own melodic rock sound, which reaped American chart rewards until the end of the decade. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Hanson | Nineties | Rock ...
sketchy storyline and with partially politicized impressions of inner-city violence in the US, the single reached No. 11 in the UK and No. 9 in the US. December Patti Hanson Keith met Patti Hanson at his birthday party in 1979 and quickly began to date her. Four years later to the day they were married, with Keith saying, ...
if some originality was inevitably sacrificed. Elsewhere, the trend seemed to be updating previous decades’ stereotypes for a new audience: shock-rocker Marilyn Manson was the 1990s’ Alice Cooper, Hanson were a cross between The Osmonds and The Jackson Five; and white funk hope Jamiroquai was a Stevie Wonder soundalike. The alt. Scene Country music was hitting the mainstream, ...
The Renaissance lute had a flat front and a rounded back made out of a series of curved strips of wood (usually yew or sycamore) fitted together. At the centre of the front was the soundhole, called the ‘rose’, which was round and intricately decorated. The instrument’s neck was glued and nailed to the top block of the body, ...
Carmen is the opera that has ensured Bizet’s lasting fame but which, somewhat uniquely, was partly fashioned by pressures from the directorate of the commissioning theatre, the Opéra-Comique. The revenue from this theatre was largely dependent on attracting the bourgeoisie, providing an evening out for chaperoned couples with an eye on marriage. Thus a setting including a ...
(A’-dam de la Al) c. 1250–1300 French Trouvère Adam de la Halle appears as something of a Janus figure at the end of the thirteenth century, at once looking back to his forebears and forwards into the fourteenth century and beyond, and he composed works in amost every genre of the period, including monophonic and polyphonic songs and ...
(A’-dre-an Vil-lârt) c. 1490–1562 Flemish composer Willaert was one of an important group of composers who settled in Italy and there adapted the Franco-Flemish style. He spent most of his career as maestro di cappella at St Mark’s, Venice. He gathered around him an influential group of musicians, including Rore and the great theorist Zarlino. His greatest publication was Musica ...
(Al-eks-an’-der A-gre-ko-la) c. 1446–1506 Franco-Flemish composer Probably born in what is now Belgium, Agricola was employed by, or associated with, some of the most brilliant courts in Europe, including those of Galeazzo Maria Sforza in Milan, Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Burgundy and the French royal court. He composed Masses, motets, chansons and ...
(Klod De’-bu-se) 1862–1918 French composer Debussy was one of the father figures of twentieth-century music, often associated with the Impressionist movement. He was not only influential on subsequent French composers such as Ravel and Messiaen, but also on other major European figures, including Stravinsky and Bartók. His early songs experimented with an intimate kind of word-setting, while ...
(Klo-dan’ da Sâr-me-se’) c. 1490–1562 French composer Sermisy spent most of his adult life in Paris and was the leading exponent of the genre known as the ‘Parisian chanson’. Mostly for four voices, his songs are similar in style to the early madrigal, which was developing at the same time. They are relatively easy to sing, with lively rhythms ...
(Kla-man’ Zhan-kan’) c. 1485–1558 French composer Janequin’s failure to procure a stable and lucrative job may have been due to the fact that he spent most of his career outside Paris, the centre of French culture. Nevertheless, he became the principal exponent of the narrative chanson, a form popular in the mid-sixteenth century. These songs are often relatively long ...
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