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External Websites
- Library of Congress - The Moldenhauer Archives - The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial - Music History from Primary Sources
- PBS LearningMedia - What Is Music? | Music Arts Toolkit
- The Canadian Encyclopedia - Music History
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Music in the Renaissance
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- Key People:
- Ludwig van Beethoven Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach Jessica Mauboy Semyon Bychkov
- Related Topics:
- opera Western music Native American music harmony choral music
music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both are conceptual and auditory, and these factors have been present in music of all styles and in all periods of history, throughout the world. Music is an art that, in one guise or another, permeates every human society. Modern music is heard in a bewildering profusion of styles, many ...(100 of 6739 words)