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  2. Western music (North America) - Wikipedia

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    West South Central states. Southwestern United States. Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America.

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    List of musical symbols. Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections ...

  4. Call and response (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music. One musician offers a phrase, and a second player answers with a direct commentary or response. The phrases can be vocal, instrumental, or both. [ 1 ]

  5. The Sound of Music - Wikipedia

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    The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as ...

  6. The Sound of Music (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with ...

  7. Yacht rock - Wikipedia

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    Yacht rock (originally known as the West Coast sound[ 4][ 5] or adult-oriented rock[ 6]) is a broad music style and aesthetic [ 7] commonly associated with soft rock, [ 8] one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on sources such as smooth soul, smooth jazz, [ 1] R&B, and disco, [ 7] common ...

  8. Music - Wikipedia

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    Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [ 4] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [ 5]

  9. History of music - Wikipedia

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    "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."