THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

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7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 pub circuit. With their university education completed, the group landed a de ...

7 Radiohead 7 soundscapes—it found a way to meld this approach with its guitar-band roots on the much-anticipated album Hail to ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 inform his lyrics when he began rapping under the stage name Jazzy, soon shor ...

Glossary agitprop Political propaganda in the form of art, music, literature, fi lm, etc. amalgam A fusion of different elements ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 diatonic A scale of the type represented by the white keys on a piano. disson ...

7 Glossary 7 motet A polyphonic vocal composition of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that is based on a sacred text and usually ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 singspiel A type of German comic opera that mixes light songs with spoken pas ...

Alkyer, Frank, Ed Enright, and Jason Koransky, eds. The Miles Davis Reader. New York, NY: Hal Leonard Books, 2007. Brower, Steve ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Stark, Steven D. Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook ...

Index A Abbey Road, 277 Academic Festival Overture, 94 Ade, King Sunny, 9, 311–313 Aftermath, 265 Agrippina, 24 Aida, 85, 89, 10 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 “Billie’s Bounce,” 227 Billy the Kid, 177 Birdland, 228 Birth of the Cool, 24 ...

7 Index 7 Copland, Aaron, 176 –179 Coronation Mass, 47 Così fan tutte, 51 Country Music Hall of Fame, 149, 160, 250 “Crazy,” 249 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Firebird, The, 139 –140 Fitzgerald, Ella, 218–219 “For Once in My Life,” 324 ...

“If I Had a Hammer,” 223 “I Get Around,” 283 “I Got Rhythm,” 167 “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” 325 “I’ll Be Seeing You,” 20 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 “Little Deuce Coupe,” 283 “Little Red Corvette,” 328 Little Russian, The, 103 ...

neoclassicism, 141, 143–144, 177 Nevermind, 338 Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, 327 New England Symphony, 133 N ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Polonaise in G Minor, 70 Pop, 337 Porgy and Bess, 169, 219, 240 Porter, Cole, ...

Romanticism, 52, 58, 64, 69, 71, 74–75, 90, 95, 110, 121 Romeo and Juliet, 102 ’Round About Midnight, 240 “Route 66,” 217 Royal ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 “Suspicious Minds,” 258 “Swanee,” 164 Swan Lake, 104 “Sweet Home Chicago,” 19 ...