Music history

"Dixie," also known as "Dixie's Land," "I Wish I Was in Dixie," and other titles, is a popular American song.

A trope or tropus may be a variety of different things in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.

A ricercar (Italian pronunciation: [ritʃɛr'kare], also spelled ricercare, recercar, recercare) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition.

Contradanza (also called contradanza criolla, danza, danza criolla, or habanera) is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th century, derived from the English country dance and adopted at the court of France.

The estampie (French: estampie, Occitan and Catalan: estampida, Italian: istampitte) is a medieval dance and musical form which was a popular instrumental and vocal form in the 13th and 14th centuries.

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

A minuet (/ˌmɪnjuːˈɛt/; also spelled menuet), is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 34 time.

Mannheim school refers to both the orchestral techniques pioneered by the court orchestra of Mannheim in the latter half of the 18th century as well as the group of composers who wrote such music for the orchestra of Mannheim and others.

Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano.

A house concert or home concert is a musical concert or performance art that is presented in someone's home or apartment, or a nearby small private space such as a barn, apartment rec room, lawn, or back yard.

The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period.

The Quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.

The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance.

The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The Notre Dame school or the Notre Dame school of polyphony refers to the group of composers working at or near the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris from about 1160 to 1250, along with the music they produced.

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying widely between times and places.

In medieval music, conductus (plural: conductus) is a type of sacred, but non-liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices.

The bourrée (also borrèia and, in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it.

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols to indicate the pitches (melodies), rhythms and/or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

Intabulation, from the Italian word intavolatura, refers to an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.

Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo) (fl. 1150s — d. ? 1201) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum.

Timotheus of Miletus (Greek: Τιμόθεος ὁ Μιλήσιος; c. 446 – 357 BC) was a Greek musician and dithyrambic poet, an exponent of the "new music.

The Great American Songbook Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the music of the Great American Songbook.

Manchester District Music Archive (MDMarchive) is an online community archive founded in 2003 by Matthew Norman, Alison Surtees, Abigail Ward, CP Lee and Dave Rofe.

Archives Service Center, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (ASC) is one of the main repositories within the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh and houses collections of various manuscripts, media, maps, and other materials of historical, social and scientific content.

Electronic and digital music technology is the use of electronic or digital instruments, computers, electronic effects units, software or digital audio equipment by a musician, composer, sound engineer, DJ or record producer to make, perform or record music.

Women in music describes the role of women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists and other musical professions.

Electric music technology refers to musical instruments and recording devices that use electrical circuits, which are often combined with mechanical technologies.

White power music is music that promotes white nationalism and expresses racism against non-whites.

Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a non-fiction book by French economist and scholar, Jacques Attali.

The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings is a non-fiction book that is an encyclopedic referencing of all known blues music albums released on CD.

The International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna (Italian: Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica) is a music museum and music library located in the Palazzo Aldini Sanguinetti, in the historic center of Bologna, Italy.

DJhistory.com is a website dedicated to the history of dance music and DJing, and also an online record label and book publishing company.

In 1958 the noted violinist and conductor Henri Temianka founded the Beverly Hills Concerts for Youth.