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unusual facts about Music history



Alessandro Carabelli

Alessandro Carabelli is a jazz pianist and composer with a background in the fields of classical music, jazz music, music history, harmony and composition and over fifteen years experience as a performer in international jazz events.

Drexel Collection

Donated by Joseph W. Drexel in 1888 to the Lenox Library (which later became The New York Public Library), the collection, located today at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, is rich with materials on music theory and music history as well as other musical subjects.

Mário Simões Dias

As an academic affiliated with the University of Coimbra, he authored works on music theory and the history of music as well as introductory texts concerned with raising public awareness of classical music; his collection of essays A Música, essa desconhecida became a popular introduction to music history in Portugal.

Violeta Dinescu

She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano.


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Bard College Campus

The Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building, built in 1987 and designed by Cathy Simon of Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris (prior to its merger with Perkins+Will), serves as the main academic building for the anthropology, history, philosophy, religion, literature, creative writing, foreign languages, art history, and music history department.

Change the Beat

"Change the Beat" is a song written and recorded by Fab Five Freddy, and one of the most sampled songs in music history.

Charles Roland Berry

He studied music history and music composition at the University of California with and Peter Racine Fricker.

Concentration 20

Released a year after her record shattering hit Sweet 19 Blues, the album raced to the top of the chart further solidifying her place in Japanese music history.

Gil Dobrică

Gil Dobrica made his impact in Romanian music history by adapting into Romanian various rock and roll, blues and soul hits, including songs by Ray Charles, Bill Monroe, Otis Redding, Little Richard and others.

H. C. Colles

On Sir Hugh Allen's invitation, he lectured on music history, analysis and interpretation at the RCM.

Jenny Wren

The solo is played on an Armenian woodwind instrument, called duduk — a first in pop music history — played by Venezuelan born, world winds specialist & multi-instrumentalist Pedro Eustache.

Joseph Twist

In addition to his work as a composer, Twist is active as a singer and conductor, and he has lectured in music history and theory at the University of Queensland.

Martin le Franc

Martin le Franc is famous in music history for penning the phrase "la contenance angloise", the English countenance, a much-debated phrase referring to a characteristically English sound found in the music of composers such as John Dunstaple.

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium

Building on Josquin's treatment of the hymn's third line in the Kyrie of the Missa Pange Lingua, the "Do-Re-Fa-Mi-Re-Do"-theme became one of the most famous in music history, used to this day in even non-religious works such as Wii Sports Resort.

Pierre Ancelin

Born in Cannes, Ancelin studied pedagogy and music history at the conservatories of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, then followed the course of aesthetics of Olivier Messiaen in Paris.

Simeon ten Holt

His most famous work is Canto Ostinato, which he wrote in 1976 and is one of the most famous classical works in (modern) Dutch music history.

Tim Malchak

Together, they became the first black/white duo in country music history with a charting single when "Just Like That" debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1984.

Toyohiko Satoh

At Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Satoh studied music history with Tatsuo Minagawa and guitar with Kazuhito Ohosawa.

VH1's Legends

Originally sponsored by AT&T Corporation, this series documents those artists (living or dead) who have made a significant contribution to music history to be profiled on the show (as opposed to VH1's companion series, Behind The Music, which profiles mostly moderately significant artists).