Portal:Music
Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for music. Music consists of sound heard over time. It is predominantly used to evoke emotion or thought in the listener. Music is often described as an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. It is considered by some cultures to be a language in and of itself. Music is also used as an accompaniment to dance, as a part of some religious rituals and a means to communicate with spirits. Within the arts, music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and an auditory art form though the definitions of music vary according to culture and social context.
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Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life.Smetana's reputation as the founding father of Czech music has endured in his native country, where advocates have raised his status above that of his contemporaries and successors. However, relatively few of Smetana's works are in the international repertory, and most foreign commentators tend to regard Antonín Dvořák as a more significant Czech composer.
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- ... that the Russian seven-string guitar's open-G tuning D-G-B-D-G-B-D (illustrated) approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
- ... that two of Lecrae's albums have been called the most important albums in Christian hip hop?
- ... that environmentalist critics have argued that Woody Guthrie's song "Pittsburgh Town" (1941), recorded by Pete Seeger, was a commentary on the city's pollution problem at the time?
- ... that Nicole Scherzinger's song "Boomerang" is about "not letting the haters keep you down"?
- April 22: Musician Prince dies aged 57
- February 18: Taylor Swift's 1989 wins Grammy's Record of the year; Bad Blood wins the Best Music Video
- February 17: 'Earned It' earns The Weeknd his first Grammy
- February 16: Ed Sheeran wins Song of Year Grammy for Thinking Out Loud
- August 21: Cilla Black funeral held in Liverpool
- June 25: Petition pressures City of Edinburgh Council to review clause affecting live music scene
- June 13: English actor Christopher Lee dies aged 93
- May 30: U2 tour manager, Dennis Sheehan dies in Los Angeles hotel room at 68
- May 28: B.B. King's daughters allege blues musician was poisoned
- May 24: Taylor Swift breaks Vevo record
- Birthdays in Music: June 2
- Brooke White, American singer and former American Idol contestant, turns 41.
- B-Real, (born Louis Freese) American rapper of Cypress Hill fame, turns 54.
- Ronnie Bedford, American drummer, turns 93.
- Gildo Mahones, American pianist, turns 95.
- Charlie Watts, Brit drummer with The Rolling Stones, turns 83.
- Tony Hadley, Brit vocalist of Spandau Ballet fame, turns 64.
- Marty Napoleon, (born Matthew Napoli Napoleon) American session musician (pianist), turns 103.
- Irène Schweizer, Swiss jazz pianist, turns 83.
- John Pisano, American jazz guitarist, turns 93.
WikiProjects connected with music: Main project – Songs – Albums – Alternative music - Classical music – Composers – Contemporary Christian music – Contemporary music – Electronic music – Emo music – Hip hop – Instruments – Led Zeppelin - Metal music – Jazz – Musicians – Opera – Panic at the Disco – Powderfinger (band) – Punk music – Record Labels – Record Production – Rock music – R&B and Soul Music – Terminology – The Beatles
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Alternative rock | Christian music | Classical guitar | Classical music | Country music |
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Electronic music | Guitar | Heavy metal | Hip hop | Jazz |
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Pipe organ | Pop music | Punk rock | Rock and Roll |
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