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Virgin Blue (song)


composed by musical composer Suzuki Kisaburo with the lyrics written by Sagara Yoshiaki. However, for Lead's 2006 version, the music was performed by Haya from the group Summer Snow Surprise. Takuya Harada wrote and composed the single's b-side "Cosmic Drive," which was an upbeat blend of jazz and dance music. The song's lyrics were written by Kaji Katsura, who is best known for their works with the Japanese group AAA and South Korean girl group After School. In 2010, Lead would release an alternate
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Bob Bradley (composer)


Bob Bradley (born 5 February 1974) is a British music composer, producer and songwriter. He is mostly known for producing Above & Beyond's Acoustic albums as well as soundtracks, themes and incidental music. He is the director of the Leeds based music house The Firm that creates premium production music. Bradley started his career as a duet with his brother Peter Bradley Junior who later formed alternative band, Subcircus. They were mentored by the Everly Brothers in their early teens. Bradley later joined the Bristol-based art rock
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The Knux


The Knux are an American alternative hip hop duo, formed in 2003, composed of brothers Kentrell "Krispy" Lindsey (formerly known as Krispy Kream) and Alvin "Joey" Lindsey (formerly known as Rah Al Millio). Both brothers are multi-instrumentalists, who sing and rap, as well as produce the bulk of their own music. Their music contains elements of rock, electronic and pop music. The Knux are well known for their intense live shows; in 2009, they were invited to perform at almost
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Egardus


Egardus, alternatively Engardus or Johannes Echgaerd, was a European composer of music in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Almost no information survives about his life, and only three of his works are known. A certain "Johannes Ecghaerd", who held chaplaincies in Bruges and Diksmuide, may be a possible match for Egardus. The extant works—a canon and two Glorias—appear to be less complex than music by mid-century composers, possibly because they date from either very early or very late in Egardus'
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Giovanni Tadolini


Giovanni Tadolini (18 October 1789 – 29 November 1872) was an Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor, who enjoyed a career that alternated between Bologna and Paris. Tadolini is probably best known for completing six sections of Rossini's 1833 version of the "Stabat mater" after the latter fell sick. However, he also composed eight operas as well as sinfonias, sonatas, chamber music, and numerous pieces of religious music and art songs. Born in Bologna, he studied privately with Matteo Rubini (singing) and Stanislao
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No Regret (song)


versions. "No Regret" is a blend of R&B and electronic dance music. The music was composed and performed by musical composer h-wonder, who had previously composed the bulk of the music for Kumi's debut studio album "affection," and the lyrics were written by Toru Watanabe, who had written the musical score to the first single in the "12 Singles Collection," "you." The b-side to the single was an alternate version of "Rain," the original which had previously
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Tres Coronas


Tres Coronas (alternatively known by its nickname Triple Crown), was a rap group, born at the beginning of 2001 in Queens, New York City. Composed by the Colombian P.N.O, the Frenchman Rocca and the Dominican Reychesta (who was the founder of the group). His music deals with topics of daily life. His best-known song is called "Falsedades" (in the first instance it would be called "Se Las Dan De Malos", Reychesta was the one who renamed it), which surpasses
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William Cornysh


William Cornysh the Younger (also spelled Cornyshe or Cornish) (1465 – October 1523) was an English composer, dramatist, actor, and poet. In his only surviving poem, which was written in Fleet Prison, he claims that he has been convicted by false information and thus wrongly accused, though it is not known what the accusation was. He may not be the composer of the music found in the "Eton Choirbook", which may alternatively be by his father, also named William Cornysh, who died c.
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Harts (musician)


Darren Hart (born 1992), better known as Harts, is a musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and music producer from Melbourne, Australia. He composes, produces and records his own music in his bedroom studio. Harts' music has been described as dance-oriented alternative rock and electronic indie, blending elements of funk, post-disco, psychedelic rock, soul, jazz, new romanticism, and blues. More recently, Harts has become known for his Hendrix-like guitar playing and
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Karol Sakr


Karol Etienne Sakr (, alternative spelling Carole Sakr or Carole Saqr; born August 11, 1969) is a Lebanese singer who is most known for her English songs back in the 1980s. She is the daughter of the Lebanese Maronite exiled politician Etienne Sakr, a former member of the Lebanese Forces and leader of the far-right Guardians of the Cedars. Carole Sakr gained fame as the lead singer for the Lebanese music band "ZED". ZED was a music duo project consisting of Carole and music composer Hadi Sharara.
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Daniel Alomía Robles


Daniel Alomía Robles (3 January 1871 – 17 July 1942) was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song "El Cóndor Pasa" in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the best known Peruvian song, partly due to the worldwide success that the melody obtained when it was used by Simon and Garfunkel as their music for "El Cóndor Pasa (
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Adi Ran


Adi Ran (; born 1961 in Ramat Gan) is an Israeli singer, musician, lyricist and composer who innovated a new music genre called Hasidic Underground (also known as "Alternative Hasidic"). He is a Na Nach Breslover. He has been called "The Bruce Springsteen of religious music". Ran began his musical career as coordinator in the Ramat Gan tribe of the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation. Later, he attracted a loyal group of fans after starting to perform in Tel Aviv pubs on the local underground
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Shawn Thomas Odyssey


Shawn Thomas Odyssey is an Edgar and Agatha Award-nominated author as well as a film, television, and video game music composer. His "Wizard of Dark Street (Oona Crate Mystery)" series chronicles the adventures of twelve-year-old magical detective Oona Crate and her enchanted raven Deacon as they solve mysteries in the alternate world of Dark Street. He is also known for co-composing the music for "Deadwood" on HBO, and as the composer for the video game "Kung Fu Panda".
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The Alternative Museum


gathering at the United Nations. The Alternative Museum also provided a showcase for experimental work that had little chance of exposure in conventional concert halls. In 1985, the main emphasis of The Alternative Museum's Music Program became the presentation of new American music, including music with firm roots in the classical and jazz traditions. Composers and musicians who performed at The Alternative Museum include: DON CHERRY, JOSEPH JARMAN, LEROY JENKINS, THE KRONOS QUARTET, CARMAN MOORE, BOB MORAN, HAMlET BLUIETT, JOAN LA BARBARA, FRANK LONDON,
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Francis Poulenc


"Les Six". In his early works Poulenc became known for his high spirits and irreverence. During the 1930s a much more serious side to his nature emerged, particularly in the religious music he composed from 1936 onwards, which he alternated with his more light-hearted works. In addition to composing, Poulenc was an accomplished pianist. He was particularly celebrated for his performing partnerships with the baritone Pierre Bernac (who also advised him in vocal writing) and the soprano Denise Duval, touring in Europe and America with each
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Double variation


The double variation (also known as alternating variations) is a musical form used in classical music. It is a type of theme and variations that employs two themes. In a double variation set, a first theme (to be called A here) is followed by a second theme (B), followed by a variation on A, then a variation on B, and so on with alternating A and B variations. Often there is a coda at the end. The double variation is strongly associated with the composer Joseph
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Lex Plotnikoff


Alexey Plotnikov (), better known under stage name Lex Plotnikoff, is a Russian composer and guitar player, founder of progressive metal band Mechanical Poet. He is also known as music composer of game soundtracks and painter/graphic designer whose original style and dazzling technique became one of the most noted Mechanical Poet trademarks. Plotnikov is endorsed by Schecter guitars. Lex started his music career as a guitar player in an alternative band Citi. In 2002 Citi has broken up and Lex has founded Mechanical Poet. The band recorded six albums
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Mike Mills


Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, percussion instruments and occasional lead vocals. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions. Michael Edward Mills was born to Frank and Adora Mills in Orange County, California and moved to Macon, Georgia when he was 10 years
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MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video


The MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video (also known as Best Alternative Music Video) was first given out at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Prior to the award being called Best Alternative Video, this award was known as MTV Video Music Award for Best Post-Modern Video in 1989 and 1990. The last of this award was given out in 1998 to Green Day for their song "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". After the award's discontinuation, artists and videos who would have normally
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Rocky Balboa (film)


features an alternate ending in which Rocky wins the fight. Composed by Academy Award winner Bill Conti, the "Rocky Balboa" film score is both an updated composition of "Rocky" music and a tribute to the music that has been featured in previous Rocky films. Conti, who has acted as composer on every Rocky film except "Rocky IV", chose to compose the score almost entirely from musical themes used in the previous movies. Only one original theme was written specifically for "Rocky Balboa" and that is the
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The Second International Congress of Composers and Music Critics 1948


the spring music festival known as Prague Spring International Music Festival since 1946, and the First Congress of Composers and Music critics. The Proclamation of the Conference later became known as 'The Prague Manifesto' The conference was attended by around 70 musicians, composers, and music critics from 14 countries, including the British composers Alan Bush and Bernard Stevens. It was also attended by the German composer and philosopher Hanns Eisler who delivered a lecture on 'Basic Social Questions of Modern Music'. He declared that "After all the excesses
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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel


Ja ihr angenehmsten Wangen" is an extant aria of the opera "Berenice", possibly composed by Stölzel and premiered in Zeitz in 1713. Composed in Gotha: Restaged in Gotha: Some compositions are alternatively indicated as opera or serenata (see also secular cantatas section above): Several pieces of instrumental music, orchestral as well as chamber music, survived in Dresden, in what is known as "Schrank II" (book-case 2). Most of these manuscripts remained in Dresden and are conserved at the Saxon State
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Life On Da Beat


the Way" was written and composed by musical composer Yasushi Sasamoto, who is part of the rap unit known as BANANA ICE. "Step by Step" was also composed by Yasushi, with the lyrics written by Kentaro Akutsu, while KATSU wrote the rap portion of the song. "Fly Away" was written and composed by musical composer Yasushi Sasamoto. The strings arrangement was performed by Gen Ittetsu, who is best known for his works with famous Japanese soloist Gackt. The rap portion of the song was written by KATSU
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Medieval music


the music of this period is called the Parisian school, or Parisian organum, and represents the beginning of what is conventionally known as "Ars antiqua". This was the period in which rhythmic notation first appeared in western music, mainly a context-based method of rhythmic notation known as the rhythmic modes. This was also the period in which concepts of formal structure developed which were attentive to proportion, texture, and architectural effect. Composers of the period alternated florid and discant organum (more note-against-note,
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Nosound


Nosound is an English/Italian alternative rock band that started in 2002 by Giancarlo Erra. The band is noted for playing music in several different genres including alternative rock, post rock, electronic and ambient music. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased. Giancarlo then assembled a band of gifted musicians who would eventually become full-time members to play the music of Nosound. Nosound
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Music of the Philippines


Music of the Philippines (; ) include musical performance arts in the Philippines or by Filipinos composed in various genres and styles. The compositions are often a mixture of different Asian, Spanish, Latin American, American, and indigenous influences. Notable folk song composers include the National Artist for Music Lucio San Pedro, who composed the famous "Sa Ugoy ng Duyan" that recalls about the loving touch of mother to her child. Another great composer who's known as a patriotic composer is Antonio Buenaventura. Philippine gong music can be divided
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Roger Evernden


Roger Evernden (born ca. 1954) is a British enterprise architect, musician, composer, writer and speaker. As an enterprise architect he is a consultant at the Cutter Consortium, known as author of the Information FrameWork, an enterprise architecture framework presented in 1996 as more generic alternative to the Zachman Framework. As a musician and composer he is best known for his new-age music solo piano albums - "Improvation" released in 2014, "The Journey We All Make" in 2016, "The Innocence of Spring
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Charles Avison


Charles Avison (; 16 February 1709 (baptised)9 or 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods. He was a church organist at St John The Baptist Church in Newcastle and at St. Nicholas's Church (later Newcastle Cathedral). He is most known for his "12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti" and his "Essay on Musical Expression", the first music criticism published in English. He composed in a transitional style that alternated between Baroque and Classical idioms. The son of Richard and Anne Avison
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Chandra Mohana


marked the cinematic debut of writer, actor and filmmaker Kothamangalam Subbu, who wrote the film's story while M. Kandaswami Mudaliar wrote the dialogues. It was directed by Raja Chandrasekhar, and produced by the Madurai-based Mohan Movietone. Shooting took place at the Bombay-based Film City Studios. The film had an alternate title, "Samooga Thondu" (). There is no known information on the film's music composer and lyricist. A reviewer for "Malaya Tribune" positively reviewed the film for the performances of the
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Music of Armenia


-American known for his many symphonies and concertos. Armenian-Canadian composer Vahram Sargsyan (1981– ) represents the younger generation of Armenian contemporary music composers who is mostly known for his choral compositions. Armenian chant, composed in one of eight modes, is the most common kind of religious music in Armenia. It is written in "khaz", a form of indigenous musical notation. Many of these chants are ancient in origin, extending to pre-Christian times, while others are relatively modern, including several composed by
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Video game music


music by White Zombie. A more well-known example is Trent Reznor's score for "Quake". An alternate approach, as with the "TMNT" arcade, was to take pre-existing music not written exclusively for the game and use it in the game. The game "" and subsequent "Star Wars" games took music composed by John Williams for the "Star Wars" films of the 1970s and 1980s and used it for the game soundtracks. Both using new music streams made specifically for the game
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Afghan National Anthem


of the government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) headed by Nur Muhammad Taraki, who decided to change the national symbols after the Marxist coup d'état of 1978. The music was composed by Jalīl Ghahlānd and was arranged by Ustad Salim Sarmad. It is known alternatively by the title of "Garam shah lā garam shah" (), which is also the song's incipit. Like many national anthems, it was sometimes sung abbreviated with only the chorus and the first stanza. In 1987, Afghanistan officially
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Javier Álvarez (composer)


Javier Álvarez Fuentes (born May 8, 1956, Mexico City) is a Mexican composer who is known for creating works that combine a variety of international musical styles and traditions that often utilize unusual instruments and new music technologies. According to composer John Adams, "The music of Javier Alvarez reveals influences of popular cultures that go beyond the borders of our own time and place." Álvarez is one of the best-known Mexican composers of his generation and many of the works in his prolific oeuvre combine music technology with diverse
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Fresh (Sly and the Family Stone album)


alternate mixes were included as bonus tracks. These tracks are extremely similar, if not identical, to the alternate, accidental 1991 release. The alternate version is known to be very accessible in Japan, while it is very scarce in the U.S. Jazz legend Miles Davis was so impressed by the song "In Time" from the album that he made his band listen to the track repeatedly for a full 30 minutes. Composer and music theorist Brian Eno cited "Fresh" as having heralded a shift in the history of recording,
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Carlos Troyer


Carlos Troyer, (January 12, 1837 – July 26, 1920) born Charles Troyer, was an American composer known for his musical arrangements of traditional Native American melodies. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Troyer settled in San Francisco sometime before 1871, where he became known alternatively as a musician, pianist and teacher of music; he began using the name Carlos around 1885. In 1893 he published "Two Zuñi Songs", an arrangement of Zuni music. Eventually, his works became further romanticized and ad lib in their
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Piotr Damasiewicz


Piotr Damasiewicz also known as Damaś (born April 11, 1980 in Wroclaw) is a Polish composer, trumpeter and music curator. He studied at the academies of music in Wrocław ("Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu"), Bydgoszcz ("Akademia Muzyczna im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy") and Katowice ("Akademia Muzyczna w Katowicach") He founded the ‘Music According To Art Association’ (MATA) which promotes artists looking for alternative solutions in music and art. In his musical
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Catholic Marian music


texts among its 13 movements, though the composer's intention for the work as a whole is debated. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed in honour of the Virgin Mary Latin Masses and several shorter operas. Other known classic composers with Marian compositions mainly in Latin include Orlando di Lasso and Franz Schubert. Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Mozart, Haydn, and others are well-known composers who contributed to Marian music. Less known is the fact that before 1802, the secularisation, many religious congregations had their own composers. A totally unknown Father
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Music of the Front Mission series


music" and complimented its use of other musical styles to influence that core style. Patrick Gann of RPGFan also praised the album as "downright awesome" and highly recommended it. Track list "Front Mission Alternative" was the second spin-off game in the series, and the fourth game released overall. Its soundtrack was composed by Riow Arai. Arai was a "mainstream dance musician", who had previously composed the soundtrack for "Sega Touring Car Championship". For the game, which unlike previous ones in the
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István Anhalt


In "Alternative Voices", Anhalt makes recurrent references to some Canadian composers, as well as their music. He discusses the role of Canadian music and composers in the context of present-day thought in contemporary Western art, music, and philosophy. Rhythm, theatre, poetry, performing techniques, sound, speech, and the roots of language and music are explored, their components interconnected, as well as their usage are examined. The publication of his work "Alternative Voices" and the finalization of "Winthrop" occurred
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John Goss (composer)


struggled to improve musical standards. As a composer, Goss wrote little for the orchestra, but was known for his vocal music, both religious and secular. Among his best-known compositions are his hymn tunes "Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven" and "See, Amid the Winter's Snow". The music critic of "The Times" described him as the last of the line of English composers who confined themselves almost entirely to ecclesiastical music. From 1827 to 1874, Goss was a professor at
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Tyrtaeus


, could have belonged to the so-called "war songs" (), of which nothing else survives. According to Philodemus, who presented it as a little-known fact, Tyrtaeus was honoured above others because of his music, not just his verses, Pollux stated that he introduced Spartans to three choruses based on age (boys, young and old men) and some modern scholars in fact argue that he composed his elegies in units of five couplets each, alternating between exhortation and reflection, in a kind of
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Andrew N. Shearer


also featured Bitchi in an on-screen performance. Matt Comegys, who grew up with Shearer and appeared alongside him in all his earliest films and bands, currently composes and performs the bulk of the original music for Gonzoriffic. Shearer is a feminist known for his stance on many women's issues, in particular the representation of women in film. He has publicly stated that his goal is "offer a progressive, audacious image of women" intended to serve as an alternative to standard Hollywood depictions. He is also active in
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Anu Malik


Anwar Sardar Malik (born 2 November 1960), best known as Anu Malik, is an Indian music director and singer. He is an Indian National Award and Filmfare Award winning music director, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film industry. Known as one of the mega music composers of 90s in India, he is the son of Sardar Malik and related to Ghulam Hassan Shaggan of the Kapurthala Gharana from where the Malik family also originates. Anu Malik made his debut as a music composer in 1980 with the film "
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Music of Argentina


Prominent Argentine composers in the genre include symphonic composer Juan José Castro, Alberto Williams, who was known for his early fusion of nativist and classical genres, Carlos Guastavino, known for his romanticist works, and Alberto Ginastera, a composer considered one of the most important Latin American contributors to classical music. Internationally known performers include pianist Martha Argerich, violinist Alberto Lysy, guitarist María Isabel Siewers, tenor José Cura, mezzo-soprano Margherita Zimmermann, and pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, who has directed the Orchestre de Paris, the
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Max Richter


Max Richter (; ; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the Royal Academy of Music and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter also composes music for stage, opera, ballet and screen. He has also collaborated with other musicians, as well as with performance, installation and media artists. He
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Music composition and composers in Pristina


new works specifically in "postmodern" music style. Another article about Ilir Bajri can be found (in Albanian). Ilir Tolaj (born 1978) is a composer even though he finished the Faculty for International Relations and Diplomacy. He was born in Mitrovica where he finished primary school and music high school. He is known for being the leader and composer of the well known pop/rock band "Margiona". Tjere is a large number of artists who he collaborated with as a composer: Another important project was "
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Ghostwriter


well. Many public figures have ghostwriters at least partially handle their Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an example of a well-known composer who was paid to ghostwrite music for wealthy patrons. More recently, composers such as the UK-based Patric Standford (born in 1939) have ghostwritten for symphonic recordings and films such as the Rod McKuen Cello Concerto. In the film industry, a music ghostwriter is a "person who composes music for another composer but is not credited on the cue sheet
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Catch (music)


Sir John Hawkins' History of Music"  ridiculed Sir John Hawkins' work by comparison with a similarly intended work by Charles Burney. John Stafford Smith won six prizes from 1773. His output was mostly glees, but his song "To Anacreon in Heaven" was written for the Anacreontic Society and sung by the President after supper; it was later supplied with alternative lyrics and became more widely known as "The Star-Spangled Banner". Samuel Webbe won 27 prizes and was especially known as a glee composer, becoming Librarian
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Maraveyas ilegál


Kostis Maraveyas or Kostis Maravegias (), also known by his stage name Maraveyas ilegál or just Maraveyas, is a Greek singer-songwriter, composer, performer, director, TV presenter and writer. He plays the accordion, piano, guitar, hammond, farfisa and he sings in Greek, English, Spanish and Italian. Although he began his musical career in the underground and alternative music scene of Italy and Greece, as of 2015 Maraveyas has reached wider audiences and is considered as a well known songwriter-performer in Greece
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Music of Italy


new Galleria Umberto in Naples. Elsewhere in Italy, the Gran Salone Eden in Milan and the Music Hall Olympia in Rome opened shortly thereafter. "Café-chantant" was alternately known as the Italianized "caffè-concerto". The main performer, usually a woman, was called a "chanteuse" in French; the Italian term, "sciantosa", is a direct coinage from the French. The songs, themselves, were not French, but were lighthearted or slightly sentimental songs composed in Italian. That music went
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George Joseph (composer)


George Joseph Olakkengil (born 29 May 1978), known professionally as George Joseph, is an Indian composer, programmer and music producer who primarily works in Hindi films. He started his career with associated acts with film composer Ram Sampath, who also lived in the same Chembur neighborhood, as music programmer and producer. Joseph has collaborated with several music directors including the likes of composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, Shantanu Moitra, Raju Singh, Clinton Cerejo, Lesle Lewis (composer) and Ranjit Barot. He made his debut as
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Musician


A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music is referred to as a musician. A musician who plays a musical instrument is also known as an instrumentalist. Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles depending on cultures and background. Examples of a musician's possible skills include performing, conducting, singing, rapping, producing, composing, arranging, and the orchestration of music. In the Middle
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Music director


in the 1950s and 1960s. The term can also refer to the person who directs a school band or heads the music program. Alternatively, the term "music director" used to appear in the film credits for a professional hired to supervise and direct the music selected for a film or music documentary, but today the more common designation is music supervisor. In India, where a large number of films are produced as musicals, the term 'music director' is commonly used for the composer and music producer of the songs
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SORNE


Morgan Sorne (born July 24, 1983), known in his solo music project as SORNE, is an American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-media artist, music producer, and actor based in Los Angeles, California. His musical style has been described tribal, electronica, avant-garde, avant pop, alternative rock, and electro-space-folk. Though sometimes associated with the broad genre of rock, his songs feature no electric guitars, conventional bass instruments, or conventional drum sets. His music
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State Anthem of Turkmenistan


The "State Anthem of Turkmenistan", also known as the "National Anthem of Independent Neutral Turkmenistan" (), was adopted as the national anthem of Turkmenistan in 1996, then again with modified lyrics in 2008. The music was composed by Turkmenistani composer Veli Mukhatov, who also composed the music of the Turkmen SSR's regional anthem. The lyrics were originally written by the first president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov (also known as Turkmenbashi), who died on 21 December 2006. Less than two years after his death
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Teeth (Filipino band)


Teeth is a Filipino rock band formed in 1993. The band is currently composed of Glenn Jacinto on vocals, Jerome Velasco on guitars, Pedz Narvaja on bass, Mike Dizon on drums, and Dok Sergio on guitars (formerly on bass). Their music style is a mix of Alternative rock and grunge. The band is well known for the hits, "Laklak", "Prinsesa" and "Shooting Star". The Filipino grunge band Teeth was born during the alternative rock boom of the 1990s and exploded onto the
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Dammy Krane


Oyindamola Johnson Emmanuel, popularly known as Dammy Krane, is a Nigerian singer, composer and performer. In January 2012, at age 20, he signed a record deal with Hypertek Digital and 960 Music Group. He is most famous for his single hit "My Dear". Dammy Krane is known for his melodic voice, engaging lyrics and his exciting genre of African alternative music. Dammy Krane has received several nominations, including the Next Rated nomination. He won Rookie of the Year at The Headies 2012. Oyindamola Johnson was
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Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)


a brief suite is on "Music for a Darkened Theatre: Vol. 2", however), as well as two alternate versions of Williams' main title theme, one used just once (Alternate #1, on "Alamo Jobe") and the other never used. The album is also notable for the premiere release of the music Williams composed for the Amblin Entertainment logo (although the logo music is not heard on the show itself). Other than Williams, Bruce Broughton and Billy Goldenberg are the only composers
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Simon Viklund


Simon Viklund (born Simon Wiklund, December 1, 1979) is a Swedish freelance video game composer, music producer, sound designer and game designer, who was first known for his work on the 2008 game "Bionic Commando", in which he was a creative director and composer. He is best known for his work in the "Payday" series as a composer and the voice of the character Bain. In 2000, Viklund joined his friend Ulf Andersson's company, Grin, and composed music for many of the
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Melodrama


the 18th century, melodrama was a technique of combining spoken recitation with short pieces of accompanying music. In such works, music and spoken dialogue typically alternated, although the music was sometimes also used to accompany pantomime. The earliest known examples are scenes in J. E. Eberlin's Latin school play "Sigismundus" (1753). The first full melodrama was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Pygmalion", the text of which was written in 1762 but was first staged in Lyon in 1770. The overture and an Andante were composed
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Electronica


, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Moby, Underworld and Faithless. Electronica composers often create alternate versions of their compositions, known as "remixes"; this practice also occurs in related musical forms such as ambient, jungle, and electronic dance music. Wide ranges of influences, both sonic and compositional, are combined in electronica recordings. In the US, New York City became one center of experimentation and growth for the electronica sound, with DJs and music producers from areas as diverse as Southeast Asia and Brazil bringing
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Codarts


Codarts University for the Arts () is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000. Codarts can trace its origins to the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek (Rotterdam Conservatory of Music), popularly known as the Conservatorium Holthaus after its director, Jos Holthaus (1879-1943). In 1930 the alternative Rotterdamsch Toonkunst Conservatorium (Rotterdam Musical Arts Conservatory) was founded with the composer Willem Pijper as director. The Rotterdamse Dansschool (Rotterdam Dance School) was
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Anime composer


An anime composer is a composer who mainly composes music for anime productions. There have been many anime composers over the years, and while anime soundtracks are big business in Japan, there have been few notable, long-term composers of anime music before the 2000s. Joe Hisaishi, best known for his collaboration with Hayao Miyazaki beginning in the mid-1980s. Since most of Hisaishi's anime music has been for Miyazaki, his influence has been somewhat muted compared to later composers. Shigeaki Saegusa, composer for "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
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R. K. Shekhar


Rajagopala Kulashekhara (21 June 1933 – 30 September 1976) was an Indian music composer who worked mainly for Malayalam movies. He composed music for 52 films (23 in Malayalam with 127 songs), and was the music conductor for more than 100 films. He is best known as the father of music composer A. R. Rahman. His debut song as a music director was "Chotta Muthal Chudala Vare" ("from cradle to grave"), which was a big hit in Kerala. This was composed for the film
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Trill (music)


bel canto composers such as Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini, the rapid alternation between two notes that Caccini describes as a shake was known as a trill and was preferred. Coloratura singers, particularly the high-voiced sopranos and tenors, are frequently required to trill not only in the works of these composers but in much of their repertoire. Soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was particularly famed for the evenness and rapidity of her trill, and stated in interview that she "never really had to learn how to trill." The trill is
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Richard Hillert


Richard Hillert was a noted Lutheran composer. He was Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill. He was best known for his work as a composer and teacher of composition. Among his most frequently performed liturgical works for congregation is "Worthy Is Christ", with its antiphon, “This is the Feast of Victory” which was written as an alternate Song of Praise for inclusion in "Setting One of the Holy Communion" in "Lutheran Book of Worship" (1978) and "Lutheran
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Classical music in Scotland


of classical music was probably first brought to Scotland by the cellist and composer Lorenzo Bocchi, who travelled to Scotland in the 1720s. The Musical Society of Edinburgh was incorporated in 1728. Several Italian musicians were active in the capital in this period and there are several known Scottish composers in the classical style, including Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, the first Scot known to have produced a symphony. In the mid-eighteenth century a group of Scottish composers including James Oswald and William McGibbon created the "Scots drawing room
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Paul Cantelon


Paul Cantelon (born December 25, 1959) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, a film score composer and an actor He is also a violinist, pianist, and accordionist, and a founding member of the American alternative band Wild Colonials. Cantelon was born in Glendale, California. He was a music prodigy who made his violin debut at the age of 13 at UCLA's Royce Hall. Inspired by the work of Donalee Reubenet, he started piano studies. He studied with Andre Gauthier at the Geneva Conservatory of
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Evolution (Ayumi Hamasaki song)


" album and produced by long-time collaborator Max Matsuura. "Evolution" was one out of twelve songs on the parent album to have been composed by her, which was first asserted on "M" after her staff failed to compose a musical composition that she had felt conformable with or suited her songs. The song's arrangement was handled by HΛL, who contributed to arranging the songs "M" and "Unite!" on the parent album. Musically, the song incorporates several genres including alternative rock and ballad
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JoAnne Lorenzana


"When Change Comes" from his alternative rock release "The Fine Art of Politics". Lorenzana is also a member of the Filipino Artists' Organization for Singers/Musicians. In the U.S., she is a member (as a composer-lyricist) of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Five years after the Manila release of "Between Seasons", Lorenzana began exploring the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, which led to a show at the California Jazz Conservatory, better known as the
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Omoide Breaker


' corresponding instrumentals. "Omoide Breaker" was written and composed by musical composer Satori Shiraishi, while the music was performed by Nao Harada. Satori is best known for his works with the Japanese female rock band Cyntia. "Summer Love Story" was written and composed by AnDisM, who had composed most of the music for their previous single "Sakura." The track "Fairy tale" was written and composed by Lead's very own Akira Kagimoto. The lyrics were written by J-Bright with Lead's Shinya Tanuichi
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Music of Italy


, music for coronations, for the birth of a royal heir, royal marches, and other occasions. Composers who strayed ran certain risks. Among the best known of such cases was the Neapolitan composer Domenico Cimarosa, who composed the Republican hymn for the short-lived Neapolitan Republic of 1799. When the republic fell, he was tried for treason along with other revolutionaries. Cimarosa was not executed by the restored monarchy, but he was exiled. Music also played a role in the unification of the peninsula. During this period
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Music of Japan


MIDI format and created The Black Mages. Yasunori Mitsuda is the composer of music for such games as "Xenogears", "Xenosaga Episode I", "Chrono Cross", and "Chrono Trigger". Koji Kondo, the sound manager for Nintendo, is also prominent on the Japanese game music scene. He is best known for his "Zelda" and "Mario" themes. Jun Senoue is well known for composing music for "Sonic the Hedgehog". He also is the main guitarist of Crush 40, who
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Music of Hungary


outlook. In contrast to previous composers who worked with Hungarian popular musical idioms, Kodály and Bartók drew a sharp line between the popular music played by Roma (also known as "magyarnóta", or Hungarian music or Gypsy music) and the music of farmers. Their work was a watershed that incorporated "every great tradition of the Hungarian people" and influenced all the later composers of the country. For the first half of the 20th century, Bartók and Kodály were potent symbols for a generation of composers, especially Kodály.
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Christoffer Franzén


Christoffer Franzén () is a Swedish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Gothenburg. He is known for his alternative and cinematic solo-project Lights & Motion, in which he plays all the instruments and writes all the music. Franzén created the project in 2012 as a result of a longer period insomnia and gained worldwide recognition when his music was featured in Google's commercial at the Oscars in 2013. His music has since been featured in multiple Hollywood trailers, fashion shows, commercials and TV-Shows. Christoffer Franzén
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Rock music in Serbia


the mid-2000s. Ekatarina Velika, having at first called Katarina II, featured former Šarlo Akrobata and Limunovo Drvo guitarists Milan Mladenović and Dragomir Mihajlović. Having released their post-punk influenced records, the band moved to a more guitar-oriented alternative rock, found on their releases "Ljubav" (1987), "Samo par godina za nas" (1989), and "Dum dum" (1991). Another prominent figure of the Serbian alternative rock scene, Mitar Subotić, also known as Rex Illusivi, a composer
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Music of Norway


Norway but also in other parts of Europe and the USA, and was known as the Nordic Paganini. In addition, a few other great composers emerged including Halfdan Kjerulf, Martin Andreas Udbye who composed the first Norwegian opera Fredkulla, and Rikard Nordraak who composed the Norwegian National Anthem "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". From about 1831, traditional Norwegian music began to influence the classical scene, especially through Bull, who befriended the famous traditional Hardanger fiddle player Myllarguten and through the friendship gained better understanding of traditional music.
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S-CRY-ed


, also known as s.CRY.ed or Scryed, is a 26 episode Japanese anime television series which first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo and Animax. The series is written by Yōsuke Kuroda, produced by Sunrise, and directed by Gorō Taniguchi, with music composed by Kōtarō Nakagawa. It is set in an alternative time in Kanagawa Prefecture where a phenomenon gave 1% of its people supernatural powers; they are known as Alters. The plot follows a young Alter mercenary known as Kazuma, as well as Ryuho, a man
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Turkish music (style)


. Paul Wranitzky, who in his lifetime was one of Vienna's most famed composers also wrote Turkish influenced music, including a large-scale symphony. Franz Xaver Süssmayr, best known for completing Mozart's unfinished "Requiem", also composed several Turkish works, including operas and symphonies. Other composers who have written excellent examples of Turkish music include Joseph Martin Kraus, Ferdinand Kauer and Ferdinando Paer. In Turkish music, the percussion instruments often play this rhythm: \new RhythmicStaff { /score This is the same rhythm as the marching
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Meyer Lutz


Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (19 May 1829 – 31 January 1903) was a German-born British composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and burlesques of well-known works. Emigrating to the UK at the age of 19, Lutz started as an organist and soon became a theatrical conductor in London. After serving from 1850 to 1855 as music director of the Surrey Theatre, Lutz conducted touring opera companies and composed some serious music and music for the Christy Minstrels. In 1869, he was engaged
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Music of the United States


Gottschalk is perhaps the best-remembered American composer of the 19th century, said by music historian Richard Crawford to be known for "bringing indigenous or folk, themes and rhythms into music for the concert hall". Gottschalk's music reflected the cultural mix of his home city, New Orleans, Louisiana, which was home to a variety of Latin, Caribbean, African American, Cajun, and Creole music. He was well acknowledged as a talented pianist in his lifetime, and was also a known composer who remains admired though
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Early music of the British Isles


of 'Master of the King's Music' and probably the most important composer of the reign was William Lawes (1602–45), who produced fantasia suites, consort music for harp, viols and organ and music for individual instruments, including lutes. This establishment was disrupted by the outbreak of civil war in England in 1642, but a smaller musical establishment was kept at the King's alternative capital at Oxford for the duration of the conflict. The period between the ascendancy of Parliament in London in 1642, to the Restoration of
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Benjamin Speed


Benjamin Peter Speed (born 27 June 1979 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian musician who composes scores for film, television and theatre. He performs and records as Mister Speed and was vocalist and songwriter in the Australian alternative, electronic and hip hop band The New Pollutants. Growing up in Adelaide, Speed graduated with an honours degree in Music Technology from the Elder Conservatorium of Music at Adelaide University and has a Masters Degree in Screen Composing from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney. Speed
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František Gregor Emmert


. He represented an alternative to the "Compositional School of Brno" (rationally and numerically composed music by Miloslav Ištvan and Alois Piňos), and many later Brno composers, including Pavel Zemek, cite him as an influence. In the 1970s, he became one of the key composers for the Husa na Provázku Theatre, where he composed an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". He also established himself as a composer of symphonic music, with 25 completed symphonies. His chamber and vocal music is inspired by the
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Edison Denisov


Edison Vasilievich Denisov (, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music. Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia, into the family of a radio physicist, who gave him the very unusual first name Edison, in honour of Thomas Edison. He studied mathematics before deciding to spend his life composing. This decision was enthusiastically supported by Dmitri Shostakovich, who gave him lessons
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Walford Davies


Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was an English composer, organist, conductor and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. Although a performing musician and composer, he served with the Royal Air Force during the First World War when he composed the well known "Royal Air Force March Past". Davies was musical adviser to the nascent British Broadcasting Corporation, and became known to a wide public for his explanatory talks on music between 1924 and 1941,
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Nikolay Peyko


Suite for orchestra (1950), "The Tsar Ivan's Night", "Jeanne d'Arc", Ballada, for piano, Piano Sonata NO.1, Variations for piano, Sonatina for piano No.2, Bylina, for Piano, Piano Sonata NO.2, Concert Triptych for 2 pianos. Nikolay worked on a genre of "pure" sympathy composed music for theater plays composed chamber music. Nikolay was more of a traditional composer who performed Folk music to the soviets in his musical language. His music is known for a more harsh,
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Veene Sheshanna


originator of what is now the known as the Mysore style of playing. This style is characterised by the two fingers being used alternately to press the string to the frets. They are kept separated from each other most of the time. Sheshanna composed 53 compositions, including Swarajatis, Padas, Javalis and many Tillanas. He had a deep understanding of Hindstani music. His Tillanas in the ragas Behag and Darbari Kannada are proof of this. The composers Mysore Vasudevacharya and Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma, among others, have showered liberal praise
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Gezi Park protests


. Internationally known Turkish electropop musician Bedük, composed, recorded and released a song named "It's A Riot" describing the protests and the fight for freedom in Turkey and released an official music video on 28 June, which has been created with all anonymous footages from different parts of Turkey, during the ongoing protests. Ozbi, a Turkish rapper (and member of the band Kaos), gained national fame by composing and recording a song named "Asi" (Rebel). World-famous alternative rock band Placebo included
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Anime composer


. Mark Mancina is more well known for composing background music outside of anime, as well as the music for the "Blood+" TV show. Kohei Tanaka, a prolific anime and video game composer, is famous for being the music composer for "One Piece" and "21-emon". Takanori Arisawa, Udi Harpaz, & Amotz Plessner are other popular composers mainly known writing and arranging music for the anime "Digimon". Toshihiko Sahashi is another popular composer mainly known writing and arranging music for the anime "Steel Angel
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Randall Meyers


Randall Bruce Meyers (born 1955) is an American composer who has worked on music for films including "Scrooged" (1988), "Stuart Little 2" (2002) and "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989). Meyers resides alternately in Oslo and in Spoleto, Italy. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London from 1970 to 1974 and at the University for Music and Drama, Vienna from 1975 to 1979. "Palazzo Massacre" (short) (original music by) 2009 "The
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Per Störby


Per Störby Jutbring, (born June 26, 1971) is a Swedish pianist, singer, bandoneonist and composer. Störby is the band leader of New Tide Orquesta in which he plays bandoneon besides composing all music. Per compose music for theatre, dance, television and films, recording and producing his own music and collaborating with other. He is a post minimalistic composer, blending contemporary classical with alternative pop and electronic elements, and he have also worked in a wide array of music such as electronic pop and new tango.
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Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


to Robert Schumann's "Rhenish" Symphony, shows Tchaikovsky alternating between writing in a more orthodox symphonic manner and writing music as a vehicle to express his emotional life; with the introduction of dance rhythms into every movement except the slow one, the composer widens the field of symphonic contrasts both within and between movements. With the last three numbered symphonies and his program symphony "Manfred", Tchaikovsky became one of the few composers in the late 19th century who could impose his personality upon the symphony to give the form new life
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Salome (opera)


. Strauss saw the play in Lachmann's version and immediately set to work on an opera. The play's formal structure was well-suited to musical adaptation. Wilde himself described "Salomé" as containing "refrains whose recurring "motifs" make it so like a piece of music and bind it together as a ballad". Strauss composed the opera to a German libretto, and that is the version that has become widely known. In 1907, Strauss made an alternate version in French (the language of the original Oscar
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Prince Igor


from composer Yuri Faliek for a production at the Mariinsky Theatre, adopting this hypothetical original sequence. The authors of the notes to the recording assert that this order better balances the musical structure of the score by alternating the acts in the Russian and Polovtsian settings with their distinctive musical atmospheres. Despite this justification, there is reason to maintain the traditional sequence. Act II contains most of the numbers for which the work is known today, with Igor's brooding and impassioned aria ("Oh give me freedom") at the center
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Leon Jessel


Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel (January 22, 1871 – January 4, 1942) was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers", also known as "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers". Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote hundreds of light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music. He achieved considerable acclaim with
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Jesús González Rubio


Jesús González Rubio (died April 26, 1874) was a professor of music in Guadalajara, Mexico, who is best known for having composed the Jarabe Tapatío, also known in the United States as the "Mexican Hat Dance". He established his own private school in Guadalajara for talented young musicians in the early 19th century, among them, Clemente Aguirre (1828-1900), who subsequently also became a noted music instructor and composer who influenced later musicians. Gonzalez-Rubio died on April 26, 1874, in
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Music of Poland


first known notable composer, however, Mikołaj z Radomia, lived in the 15th century. During the 16th century, mostly two musical ensembles – both based in Kraków and belonging to the King and the Archbishop of Wawel – led the rapid innovation of Polish music. Composers writing during this period include Wacław z Szamotuł, Mikołaj Zieleński, Nicolaus Cracoviensis, Marcin Leopolita and Mikołaj Gomółka, who composed "Melodies to Polish Psalter". Diomedes Cato, a native-born Italian who lived in Kraków from about the age of five,
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Plays of L. Frank Baum


Frank Baum, who had been known as "Frank" for most of his childhood, chose the new pen name "Louis F. Baum." Most of these plays are known only from their copyrights. "The Maid of Arran", based on a novel by William Black, went on a very successful tour with Baum in the lead. While most of Baum's later musical theatre works featured music by other composers, Baum himself composed the music for this piece, which is apparently the only musical of the group.
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David A. Jaffe


David Aaron Jaffe (born April 29, 1955) is an American composer who has written over ninety works for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, and electronics. He is best known for his use of technology as an electronic-music or computer-music composer in works such as "Silicon Valley Breakdown", though his non-electronic music has also been widely performed. He is also known for his development of computer music algorithmic innovations, such as the physical modeling of plucked and bowed strings, as well as for
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