(Vocals/vocal group, 1957–90) Childhood friends Mayfield and Butler joined Sam Gooden and Arthur and Richard Brooks in The Impressions in 1957, Butler going solo after one hit, ‘For Your Precious Love’. In 1967, Butler teamed his distinctive smooth soul voice with producer-writers Gamble and Huff and helped to forge the polished Philadelphia Soul sound with No. 1s ...
Riverdance stage show, which has seduced many parts of the world into giving Irish dancing its highest ever profile and promoted Irish music to previously unimagined heights. Many people’s impressions of folk music remain riddled with clichés, from hippy images of long beards and new-age characters, to songs associated with an irrelevant rural idyll. But as many listeners ...
was recognized early on by the nascent folk music movement in the 1940s. Underappreciated in America, he gained a wide following in Europe through live performances and made lasting impressions on guitarists like George Harrison and Eric Clapton, who recorded Broonzy’s ‘Key To The Highway’. Styles & Forms | Roots of Rock Personalities | Ruth Brown | Roots of ...
(Fri-drikh Fran’-zhek [Fra-da-rek’ Fran-swa’] Sho-pan) 1810–49 Polish composer Chopin was unique among composers of the highest achievement and influence in that he wrote all his works, with the merest handful of exceptions, for the solo piano. Leaving Warsaw, which at the time offered only restricted musical possibilities, and living most of his adult life in Paris, ...
but he was 14 before taking up the instrument seriously. He enrolled in 1886 at the Music Institute of Martin Wegelius, the pioneer of Finnish music education. His strongest impressions there came from a young teacher, the German-Italian composer-pianist Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), and in 1889 he went abroad to study in Germany and then Vienna. The Finnish Hero On ...
He is still a reliable concert attraction and new albums remain worthwhile marketing exercises. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler & The Impressions | Sixties | Rock ...
(Vocals, b. 1984) After a moderately successful attempt at gospel rock, Perry (born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson) made the switch to risqué pop, with immediate results when debut single ‘I Kissed A Girl’ became a provocative radio classic in 2008. She proved no one-hit wonder by following up with ‘Hot N Cold’ and ‘Waking Up In Vegas’. A one-off ...
The librettist of his opera Sárka (1897) was Anezka Schulzová, a pupil with whom he had a love affair, charted in an epic ‘diary’ for piano, Moods, Impressions, Reminiscences (1892–99), consisting of over 200 pieces including his popular Poème. Fibich was the earliest composer of Czech tone-poems, based on folk ballads; he also composed three ‘cyclic’ ...
mixing tough funk protest, sublime ballads and a jazzy spontaneity, despite Wonder playing almost everything himself. Meanwhile, Chicago’s Curtis Mayfield broke away from his 1960s vocal group The Impressions and fashioned a unique muse based upon his beautiful falsetto vocals and vivid lyrical pleas for social justice. This produced a funk masterpiece in 1972 with his soundtrack for blaxploitation ...
soul guru and the first to use the phrase ‘northern soul’ in the Blues And Soul magazine in 1971 Leading Exponents Holland-Dozier-Holland The Four Tops Edwin Starr Jackie Wilson The Impressions Robert Knight The Velvelettes R. Dean Taylor Dobie Gray Ramsey Lewis Trio Introduction | Soul & R&B Styles & Forms | Funk Soul | Soul & R&B ...
Jamaican music for the previous few years. Rock steady owed a great deal to the soul groups who were doing so well in the US at that time – The Impressions, The Drifters, The Dells. But the undisputed king of rock steady was Duke Reid, sound system owner, record producer and fearsome former policeman. Slowing It Down ...
George Gershwin Dmitri Shostakovich Ralph Vaughan Williams Michael Tippett Benjamin Britten Twentieth Century Style Pentatonic scales are indicative of the simple and effective modes that are utilized to create vivid impressions of a subject. Introduction | Classical Music Styles & Forms | Contemporary | Classical Music ...
movement into his often melodramatic paintings of episodes from literature and history. Composers addressed similar issues. Broadly, they infused classical forms with new meaning, evoking a range of impressions and emotions through more varied orchestral colours, extramusical inspirations and programmes, and emphasis on the individual. Expansion Rather than a break with classical rules, Romanticism in music ...
violent promotional video that caused controversy. Mick intended for it to keep the group current and introduce them to the MTV generation. Following a 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 ...
Liszt defined the symphonic poem as an extended instrumental work in one movement (or more), provided with a definite programme, the purpose of which was to render the ‘indistinct impressions of the soul more distinct [...] with the suggestion or detailed description of specific concepts or images’. Liszt did not intend a literal musical interpretation of something that was extramusical. ...
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