THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

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Published in 2010 by Britannica Educational Publishing (a trademark of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.) in association with Rosen ...

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Introduction Guido d’Arezzo Josquin des Prez Antonio Vivaldi George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Haydn Wolfgang ...

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7 Introduction 7 W hat is influence? Is it the power that one individual holds to change the world? Is it prestige—the glimmerin ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Austrian composer Joseph Haydn set to work on his own compositions in this ge ...

7 Introduction 7 the musical traditions that preceded him and then melding those traditions to create music that was all his own ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 in the mid-1950s, Aretha Franklin has used her unprece- dented vocal talent t ...

7 Introduction 7 For an example of this type of astronomical influence, consider Bob Dylan. Part American folksinger, part poet, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 everything else in their lives. That is music, and that is the influence it h ...

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7 Guido d’Arezzo 7 Guido d’Arezzo (b. c. 990, Arezzo? [Italy]—d. 1050, Avellana?) G uido d’Arezzo was a medieval music theorist ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 with his name and widely used in the Middle Ages, had any connection with Gui ...

7 Josquin des Prez 7 sang for the courts of René I of Anjou and Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan, and from 1486 to about 1494 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Josquin gradually abandoned cantus firmus technique for parody and paraphrase ...