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Arne, Thomas Augustine
(Encyclopedia) Arne, Thomas AugustineArne, Thomas Augustineärn [key], 1710–78, English composer. Arne composed the song Rule, Britannia, based on an ode by James Thomson. He composed new music for an…Hauer, Josef Matthias
(Encyclopedia) Hauer, Josef MatthiasHauer, Josef Matthiasyōˈzĕf mätēäs houˈər [key], 1883–1959, Austrian music theorist and composer. Primarily self-taught, Hauer devised a method of atonal…Suppé, Franz von
(Encyclopedia) Suppé, Franz vonSuppé, Franz vonfränts fən z&oobreve;pˈā [key], 1819–95, Austrian composer, b. Spalato, Dalmatia. His operettas, including The Light Cavalry (1866), were among the…mode, in music
(Encyclopedia) mode, in music. 1 A grouping or arrangement of notes in a scale with respect to a most important note (in the pretonal modes of Western music, this note is called the final or finalis…syncopation
(Encyclopedia) syncopationsyncopationsĭngˌkəpāˈshən, sĭnˌ– [key] [New Gr.,=cut off ], in music, the accentuation of a beat that normally would be weak according to the rhythmic division of the…Szymanowski, Karol
(Encyclopedia) Szymanowski, KarolSzymanowski, Karolkäˈrôl shĭmänôfˈskē [key], 1882–1937, Polish composer; studied in Berlin and Warsaw. His early works show marked German, French, and Russian…Ussachevsky, Vladimir
(Encyclopedia) Ussachevsky, VladimirUssachevsky, Vladimirvlədyēˈmĭr &oomacr;səchĕfˈskē [key], 1911–90, Russian-American composer, b. Manchuria. Ussachevsky emigrated to the United States in 1931…treble
(Encyclopedia) treble, highest part in choral music, thus corresponding in pitch to soprano, but associated with the voice of a boy or a girl. The term appeared in 15th-century English polyphony,…twelve-tone music
(Encyclopedia) twelve-tone music: see serial music.electro-acoustic music
(Encyclopedia) electro-acoustic music: see electronic music.Trending
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