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 Classical music - Free Encyclopedia
Musical works are best understood and enjoyed in the context of their place in musical history.
The relationship (particularly, the relative value) of classical music and popular music is a controversial question.
Even atonal music, which tends to be less popular among classical enthusiasts, has a strong niche in popular culture, since (as Charles Rosen has noted) it is widely used in film and television scores "to depict an approaching menace".
http://www.wacklepedia.com/c/cl/classical_music_1.html   (1329 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock HE-HY
Musically, the compositions owe as much to Gentle Giant with the musical counterpoints and fugues in the instruments which sometimes play only a few notes before the melody is taken up by another instrument or a few words of singing.
Holding Pattern's music can be broadly described as instrumental (for the most part), melodic Prog with occasional fusion flourishes.
But Henry Cow were extremely unconventional, and made music that didn't conform to any laws, and were therefore an island to themselves.
http://www.gepr.net/he.html   (15917 words)

  
 Process music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Process music can also be created using relatively traditional instrumental techniques - Reich's Piano Phase is an example.
Thus the bass instruments played the section at a slower rate than the treble instruments, and the new piece created was shaped by these melodic lines drifting in and out of phase with each other.
Process music or systems music is music which arises from a process, and more specifically, music which makes that process audible.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/process_music   (335 words)

  
 Kyle Gann's Home Page
Gann's music uses complex but hard-driving and drum-driven tempo structures developed from his study of Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo Indian music, as well as from his analysis of the complete works of Conlon Nancarrow.
A Forest from the Seeds of Minimalism: An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music (1.4.99)
The purpose of this page is to acquaint the reader with the music and writings of Kyle Gann, composer, musicologist, and music critic.
http://kylegann.com   (836 words)

  
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