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3 unusual facts about Western music


Change deafness

In this task, the listeners’ experience and familiarity with Western music determined their ability to encode features of the music; however non-scale tones, as well as tones not emphasized by meter and duration, were not consistently retained in short term memory, and thus listeners were less able to detect changes to these elements of the music.

Culture of Pakistan

The variety of Pakistani music ranges from diverse provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal Gayaki to modern forms fusing traditional and Western music, such as the synchronisation of Qawwali and Western music by the world-renowned Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Michal Menert

His parents were both hard-working professionals in academia and industry, and would fill the house with banned books and Western music.


America's Music: The Roots of Country

The film touches on many of the styles of music that make up country music, including: Old-time music, Cajun music, Folk music, Rockabilly, Western music, Western swing, the Bakersfield sound, Honky-tonk and the Nashville sound.

Charles Starrett

The Durango Kid films combined vigorous action sequences – often with sped up camera work and spectacular stunts performed by Jock Mahoney – and western music.


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Abrams, Wisconsin

Pee Wee King, pioneer in the country and western music industry; wrote "Tennessee Waltz" and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974

Alexander Gradsky

His mother encouraged him to learn to play the violin as a child, and her brother, Alexander Gradsky's uncle, was a dancer who toured abroad and brought home records of Western music artists including Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong and Little Richard.

Amine and Hamza M'raihi

They have since then evolved into diverse musical traditions including classical western music, jazz, flamenco, Indian, Persian music and many others

Association for Contemporary Music

The organization's enthusiasm for avant-garde Western music and for experimentation met with opposition from the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM), which by the late 1920s had eclipsed the ACM in terms of cultural influence.

Doug Green

Douglas B. Green (born 1946), American musician, arranger and Western music songwriter

Freedom Deep

"Freedom Deep" was played live at The Great Music Experience in Nara, Japan in May 1994 at the UNESCO Concert, the idea being to bring together Japanese and Western Music.

Giovanni de Macque

(1) Donald Jay Grout, A History of Western Music. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1980.

Junsang Bahk

In 1969 in Seoul, together with Isang Yun, Nam June Paik, and Sukhi Kang, he helped organize the "Biennale for Contemporary Music", where new Western music was performed for the first time in Korea (Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Herbert Eimert, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, etc.).

Loggers Leap

The ride is themed around logging in the Canadian countryside and, as with others in the Canada Creek area, had a soundtrack of country and western music including 5,6,7,8 by Steps, Cotton-Eyed Joe by Rednex and 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton which plays outside the ride, in the outside queueing area and in the ride station itself.

Maihar Band

The Maihar Band is an instrumental musical group in the Indian city of Maihar that performs both Indian and western music.

Mbira music

However, in most Mbira music, there are minute variations, suggestive of the minimalist movement in western music (for example Philip Glass et al.).

Post-romanticism

Béla Bartók, for example, "in such Strauss-influenced works as Duke Bluebeard's Castle," may be described as having still used, "dissonance 'such intervals as fourths and sevenths' for purposes of post-Romantic expression, not simply always as an appeal to the primal art of sound" - unlike Arnold Schoenberg and Strauss himself, who both believed in "a mythology of historical progress in Western music".

Rodeo

Rodeo is a popular topic in country-western music, such as the 1991 Garth Brooks hit single "Rodeo", and has also been featured in numerous movies, television programs and in literature.

Sonata da camera

In the Oxford History of Western Music, Richard Taruskin describes a sonata da camera as "... essentially a dance suite, which Corelli adapted to the prevailing four-movement format (a 'preludio' and three dances or connecting movements)."

Western Music Association

It also publishes The Western Way, a magazine dedicated to the promotion of western music.