Портал:Музыка

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Музыкальный портал

В самом общем смысле музыка — это аранжировка звука для создания некоторой комбинации формы , гармонии , мелодии , ритма или иного выразительного содержания . Определения музыки различаются в зависимости от культуры, хотя она является аспектом всех человеческих обществ и культурной универсалией . Хотя ученые согласны с тем, что музыка определяется несколькими конкретными элементами , единого мнения относительно их точных определений нет. Создание музыки обычно разделяют на музыкальную композицию , музыкальную импровизацию и музыкальное исполнение , хотя сама эта тема распространяется на академические дисциплины, критику , философию , психологию и терапевтический контекст . Музыка может исполняться или импровизировать с использованием широкого спектра инструментов , включая человеческий голос , и поэтому ее часто хвалят за ее чрезвычайную универсальность и возможности для творчества.

В некоторых музыкальных контекстах исполнение или композиция могут быть в некоторой степени импровизированными . Например, в классической музыке хиндустани исполнитель играет спонтанно, следуя частично определенной структуре и используя характерные мотивы. В модальном джазе исполнители могут по очереди вести и отвечать, одновременно обмениваясь меняющимся набором нот. В контексте фри-джаза не может быть никакой структуры, и каждый исполнитель действует по своему усмотрению. Музыка может быть намеренно составлена так, чтобы быть неисполнимой , или может быть составлена в электронном виде из множества исполнений . Музыка воспроизводится в общественных и частных помещениях, освещается на таких мероприятиях, как фестивали , рок-концерты и выступления оркестра , а также случайно звучит как часть партитуры или саундтрека к фильму, телешоу, опере или видеоигре . Воспроизведение музыки — основная функция MP3-плеера или проигрывателя компакт-дисков , а также универсальная функция радиоприемников и смартфонов .

Музыка часто играет ключевую роль в общественной деятельности, религиозных ритуалах , обрядах посвящения , праздниках и культурных мероприятиях. Музыкальная индустрия включает в себя авторов песен, исполнителей, звукорежиссеров , продюсеров, организаторов туров, дистрибьюторов инструментов, аксессуаров и нот . Композиции, исполнения и записи оцениваются и оцениваются музыкальными критиками , музыкальными журналистами и музыковедами , а также любителями. ( Полная статья... )

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Изображение 1Alleluia nativitas Перотина из Кодекса Гуэльфа.1099 (из Истории музыки )
Изображение 2Канье Уэст (2007) за это десятилетие стал важным хип-хоп продюсером и исполнителем альбомов. (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 3Логотип интернет- магазина iTunes компании Apple Inc. , в котором продаются цифровые файлы песен и музыкальных произведений, а также ряд другого контента, например цифровых файлов телешоу и фильмов ( из музыкальной индустрии ).
Изображение 4Платиновые пластинки Элвиса Пресли , Принца , Мадонны , Линирда Скайнирда и Брюса Спрингстина на аукционе Жюльена (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 5Магазин пластинок HMV в Уэйкфилде , Англия, закрывает свою деятельность в 2013 году (со времен альбома )
Изображение 6Лира Ура с головой быка , найденная на Королевском кладбище в Уре , является самой известной из древних лир Ура (из истории музыки ).
Изображение 7Гийом Дю Фэ (слева) с Жилем Биншуа (справа) в ок. 1440 г. Иллюминированная рукописная копия книги Мартина ле Франка «Чемпион дам» (из «Истории музыки ») .
Изображение 8Публика смотрит концерт (из «Музыкальной индустрии »)
Изображение 9Стиви Уандер , один из артистов-новаторов той эпохи (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 10Пример механически напечатанных нот (из журнала «Музыкальная индустрия »).
Изображение 11Молодая пара слушает музыку на iPod Mini , 2006 год (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 12Фрэнк Синатра ( ок. 1955 ), исполнитель ранних поп-альбомов (из эпохи альбомов )
Изображение 13Pink Floyd (1973) исполняют The Dark Side of the Moon , ставший главным коммерческим успехом эпохи пластинок (из эпохи альбомов )
Изображение 14Живое музыкальное выступление на Cologne Pride , 2013 (от музыкальной индустрии )
Изображение 15Студент колледжа Родса слушает пластинку Yes 1969 года в кампусе, ок. 1970 (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 16The Rolling Stones в 1967 году (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 17Музыкант в студии звукозаписи (из музыкальной индустрии )
Изображение 18Бейонсе (2016) популяризировала стратегию создания альбомов-сюрпризов 2010-х годов. (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 19Тейлор Свифт , давняя сторонница выпуска альбомов, вместо этого неожиданно выпустила свои альбомы в 2020 году (из эпохи альбомов ).
Изображение 20Продажи винила в США в единицах, 1995–2020 гг.; хотя продажи альбомов в целом снизились, к концу 2010-х годов продажи альбомов в виниловом формате выросли . (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 21Рисунок таблички с Гимном Никкалю ( ок. 1400 г. до н. э.), древнейшей из хурритских песен (из «Истории музыки ») .
Изображение 22Историки музыки считают The Beatles (1964) провозглашением эры альбомов. (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 23Ноты для части Missa Papae Marcelli Джованни Пьерлуиджи да Палестрина (из «Истории музыки »)
Изображение 24Монументальный Бяньчжун маркиза И Цзэна , ок. V век до нашей эры, из провинции Хубэй (из истории музыки )
Изображение 25в. 379 г. н.э. Барельеф с изображением сасанидских женщин , играющих на чанге в Так-е-Бостан , Иран (из истории музыки )
Изображение 26Два музыканта династии Восточная Хань (25–220 гг. н. э.), Шанхайский музей (из истории музыки )
Изображение 27Поскольку пластинки вышли из моды по сравнению с компакт-дисками, продюсеры хип-хопа перепрофилировали их в качестве источников сэмплирования , способствуя развитию коллекционирования пластинок . (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 28Терракотовая статуя парфянского лютниста (из «Истории музыки »)
Изображение 29Система радиовещания 1906 года (из Музыкальной индустрии )
Изображение 30Японский бойз-бэнд Arashi , у которого был самый продаваемый в мире альбом ( 5x20 All the Best!! ) в 2019 году (из эпохи альбома ).
Изображение 31Музыканты, работающие в студии звукозаписи (из музыкальной индустрии )
Изображение 32Фрэнсис Денсмор записывает вождя черноногих Mountain Chief на цилиндрический фонограф в 1916 году (из музыкальной индустрии )
Изображение 33Смартфон, отображающий плейлисты на Spotify , 2010 год. За десятилетие этот потоковый сервис стал доминирующей и меняющей платформу для потребления музыки. (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 34Студийный инженер, работающий с аудиомикшером в студии звукозаписи (из музыкальной индустрии )
Изображение 35Круговое определение понятия «музыкальность» (из «Элементы музыки »)
Изображение 36Пластинка на граммофоне (из эпохи альбома )
Изображение 37Обозначения, указывающие на разную высоту звука, динамику, артикуляцию и инструменты (из «Элементы музыки »).
Изображение 38Портативный проигрыватель компакт-дисков Discman , выпущенный в 1984 году и ускоривший вытеснение пластинок ( эпохи альбомов ).

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Нильсен, гр. 1908 год

Карл Август Нильсен ( датский: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈne̝lsn̩] ; 9 июня 1865 — 3 октября 1931) — датский композитор , дирижер и скрипач , широко признанный самым выдающимся композитором своей страны.

Воспитанный бедными, но музыкально талантливыми родителями на острове Фюн , он продемонстрировал свои музыкальные способности в раннем возрасте. Сначала он играл в военном оркестре, а затем поступил в Датскую королевскую музыкальную академию в Копенгагене с 1884 по декабрь 1886 года . 1, Сюита для струнных , в 1888 году, в возрасте 23 лет. В следующем году Нильсен начал 16-летнюю работу в качестве второго скрипача в Датском королевском оркестре под управлением Йохана Свендсена , в течение которого он играл вопере Джузеппе Верди . Фальстаф и Отелло на датской премьере. В 1916 году он занял должность преподавателя в Датской королевской академии и продолжал работать там до самой смерти. ( Полная статья... )
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Йоханссон в 2019 году

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (/dʒoʊˈhænsən/; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Johansson's films have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making her the highest-grossing box office star of all time.

She first appeared on stage in an off-Broadway play as a child actor. Johansson made her film debut in the fantasy comedy North (1994) and gained early recognition for her roles in Manny & Lo (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and Ghost World (2001). Her shift to adult roles came in 2003 with Lost in Translation, and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress for this performance. She continued to gain praise for playing a 17th-century servant in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), a troubled teenager in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) and a seductress in Match Point (2005). The latter marked her first collaboration with Woody Allen, who later directed her in Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson's other works of this period include The Prestige (2006) and the albums Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) and Break Up (2009), both of which charted on the Billboard 200. (Full article...)
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Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.

As a schoolboy at Eton College, Heseltine met the British composer Frederick Delius, with whom he formed a close friendship. After a failed student career in Oxford and London, Heseltine turned to musical journalism, while developing interests in folk-song and Elizabethan music. His first serious compositions date from around 1915. Following a period of inactivity, a positive and lasting influence on his work arose from his meeting in 1916 with the Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren; he also gained creative impetus from a year spent in Ireland, studying Celtic culture and language. On his return to England in 1918, Heseltine began composing songs in a distinctive, original style, while building a reputation as a combative and controversial music critic. During 1920–21 he edited the music magazine The Sackbut. His most prolific period as a composer came in the 1920s, when he was based first in Wales and later at Eynsford in Kent. (Full article...)
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Grace in 2023

Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress. Born in Grapevine, Texas, she began acting professionally at age five and relocated to Los Angeles, California, as a child. Her earliest roles included Jasmine Bernstein in the Disney XD sitcom Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014) and Faith Newman in the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2013–2015). After several small roles, she starred as a child prodigy in Gifted (2017), a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.

Grace subsequently appeared in the films I, Tonya (2017), Troop Zero (2019), and Captain Marvel (2019). During this time, she appeared in several horror projects, including The Bad Seed (2018), The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). For playing an abused teenager in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, making her the first child recognized for a guest acting Emmy. She appeared in the supernatural comedy Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), earning critical praise and a Critics' Choice Super Award nomination. In 2022, Grace wrote, executive produced, and starred in The Bad Seed Returns, and portrayed Jan Broberg in A Friend of the Family. (Full article...)
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Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles is a 2021 American concert film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Osborne, starring singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. It features performances of all 16 tracks from Eilish's second studio album, Happier Than Ever (2021), at the Hollywood Bowl amphitheater. She is accompanied by other musicians, including her brother Finneas O'Connell and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Inspired by films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Cool World (1992), A Love Letter to Los Angeles blends live action and animation.

Besides directing, Osborne worked on the animation in collaboration with Nexus Studios, Zoic Studios, and Digital Frontier FX, mixing motion capture footage with rotoscoping techniques. Filming took place for one week in Los Angeles, mostly at the Hollywood Bowl, without a live audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The crew aimed to avoid making the performances feel too similar, so they produced distinct color palettes and lighting effects for every song. They often recorded Eilish from close distances, wanting to create a sense of intimacy between her and the viewers. (Full article...)
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Speak Now is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 25, 2010, through Big Machine Records. Swift wrote the album entirely herself within two years while touring to promote her second studio album, Fearless (2008).

Inspired by Swift's transition from adolescence into adulthood, Speak Now is a loose concept album consisting of confessional songs mostly about love and heartbreak that explore past relationships and depart from the youthful optimism on her past albums. Some tracks were inspired by her rising stardom and public experience, and they have lyrics about confrontation against her critics and adversaries. Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, the album combines country pop, pop rock, and power pop. Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars, dramatic strings, and drums. (Full article...)
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"Talk That Talk" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her 2011 studio album of the same name. It features a rap verse by American rapper Jay-Z, who had previously collaborated with Rihanna on her song "Umbrella" in 2007 and "Run This Town" in 2009. The song was written by Jay-Z, Ester Dean, together with the Norwegian production duo Stargate. Def Jam Recordings serviced the track to urban contemporary radio in the United States on January 17, 2012, as the third single from Talk That Talk. It was released in France as a CD single on March 26. "Talk That Talk" is a hip hop song with R&B beats, rough drums and unrefined synths, and has a similar style to Rihanna's 2010 single "Rude Boy". It contains a brief sample of "I Got a Story to Tell" by the Notorious B.I.G. Therefore, the Buckwild, Sean Combs, Chucky Thompson, and the Notorious B.I.G. are credited as songwriters despite the Notorious B.I.G's death in 1997.

The single was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2013 ceremony. The song appeared on several charts worldwide; it reached number 31 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 25 on the UK Singles Chart, and the top ten in Israel and Norway. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting digital downloads of over one million copies in the US. Rihanna performed "Talk That Talk" on television shows such as The Jonathan Ross Show and Saturday Night Live, and included it on the set lists of the 2013 Diamonds and the 2014 The Monster Tour with Eminem. (Full article...)
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Stanford in 1921

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.

While still an undergraduate, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. From 1887 he was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. As a teacher, Stanford was sceptical about modernism, and based his instruction chiefly on classical principles as exemplified in the music of Brahms. Among his pupils were rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own, such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. As a conductor, Stanford held posts with the Bach Choir and the Leeds Triennial Music Festival. (Full article...)
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"Watching the River Flow" is a blues rock song by American singer Bob Dylan. Produced by Leon Russell, it was written and recorded during a session in March 1971 at the Blue Rock Studio in New York City. The collaboration with Russell formed in part through Dylan's desire for a new sound—after a period of immersion in country rock music—and for a change from his previous producer.

The song was praised by critics for its energy and distinctive vocals, guitar, and piano. It has been interpreted as Dylan's account of his writer's block in the early 1970s and of his wish to deliver less politically engaged material and to find a new balance between public and private life. (Full article...)
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Darkness on the Edge of Town is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978, by Columbia Records. The album was recorded after a series of legal disputes between Springsteen and his former manager Mike Appel, during sessions in New York City with the E Street Band from June 1977 to March 1978. Springsteen and Jon Landau co-produced, with assistance from bandmate Steven Van Zandt.

For the album's lyrics and music, Springsteen took inspiration from sources as diverse as John Steinbeck novels, John Ford films, punk rock, and country music. Musically, the album strips the Wall of Sound production of its predecessor, Born to Run, for a rawer hard rock sound emphasizing the band as a whole. The lyrics on Darkness focus on ill-fortuned characters who fight back against overwhelming odds. Compared to Springsteen's previous records, the characters are older and the songs are less tied to the Jersey Shore area. The cover photograph of Springsteen was taken by Frank Stefanko in his New Jersey home. (Full article...)
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"Style" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and the third single from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). Swift wrote the song with the producers Max Martin, Shellback, and Ali Payami. An incorporation of pop, funk, disco, and electronic styles, "Style" is built on an electric guitar riff, pulsing synthesizers, and dense vocal reverb. The lyrics are about a couple who could not escape from an unhealthy relationship because they are never "out of style". Big Machine in partnership with Republic Records released the song to US radio on February 9, 2015.

In the United States, "Style" peaked at number six and was 1989's third consecutive top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The single reached the top 25 and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Early reviews were generally positive and praised the production but a few of them deemed the lyrics unsophisticated. Retrospective opinions have regarded "Style" as one of Swift's best songs. (Full article...)
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Hector Berlioz was the first to use the term "choral symphony" for a musical composition—his Roméo et Juliette.

A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, and sometimes solo vocalists that, in its internal workings and overall musical architecture, adheres broadly to symphonic musical form. The term "choral symphony" in this context was coined by Hector Berlioz when he described his Roméo et Juliette as such in his five-paragraph introduction to that work. The direct antecedent for the choral symphony is Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth incorporates part of the Ode an die Freude ("Ode to Joy"), a poem by Friedrich Schiller, with text sung by soloists and chorus in the last movement. It is the first example of a major composer's use of the human voice on the same level as instruments in a symphony.

A few 19th-century composers, notably Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt, followed Beethoven in producing choral symphonic works. Notable works in the genre were produced in the 20th century by Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, among others. The final years of the 20th century and the opening of the 21st century have seen several new works in this genre, among them compositions by Mikis Theodorakis, Peter Maxwell Davies, Tan Dun, Philip Glass, Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki, William Bolcom and Robert Strassburg. (Full article...)
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Klemperer c. 1920

Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the US, Hungary and finally Britain. His early career was in opera houses, but he became better known as a concert-hall conductor.

A protégé of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, from 1907 Klemperer was appointed to a succession of increasingly senior conductorships in opera houses in and around Germany. Between 1929 and 1931 he was director of the Kroll Opera in Berlin, where he presented new works and avant-garde productions of classics. He was from a Jewish family, and the rise of the Nazis caused him to leave Germany in 1933. Shortly afterwards he was appointed chief conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and guest-conducted other American orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and later the Pittsburgh Symphony, which he reorganised as a permanent ensemble. (Full article...)
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"Sound and Vision" is a song by the English musician David Bowie. It was released in January 1977 by RCA Records on side one of his 11th studio album Low. RCA later chose it as the first single from the album. Co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, the song was recorded at the Château d'Hérouville in Hérouville, France, in September 1976, and completed at Hansa Studios in West Berlin in October and November. The song began as a simple G major chord progression that Bowie gave to the backing musicians, writing and recording his vocals afterward. It features backing vocals from Brian Eno and Visconti's then-wife Mary Hopkin.

Regarded by biographers as the closest to a "conventional pop song" on Low, "Sound and Vision" is oddly structured. Beginning as an instrumental, elements are added throughout the song's runtime; Bowie's vocals do not appear for over a minute and a half. The song's lyrics are dark and introspective, reflecting Bowie's mental state after years of drug addiction, and provide a stark contrast to the music itself, which is more joyous and upbeat. Like other Low tracks, the song's drum sound was achieved through the use of Visconti's Eventide H910 Harmonizer. (Full article...)
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Franz Liszt, after a painting of 1856 by Wilhelm von Kaulbach.

The symphonic poems of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt are a series of 13 orchestral works, numbered S.95–107. The first 12 were composed between 1848 and 1858 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave), followed in 1882. These works helped establish the genre of orchestral program music—compositions written to illustrate an extra-musical plan derived from a play, poem, painting or work of nature. They inspired the symphonic poems of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Richard Strauss and others.

Liszt's intent, according to musicologist Hugh MacDonald, was for these single-movement works "to display the traditional logic of symphonic thought." In other words, Liszt wanted these works to display a complexity in their interplay of themes similar to that usually reserved for the opening movement of the Classical symphony; this principal self-contained section was normally considered the most important in the larger whole of the symphony in terms of academic achievement and musical architecture. At the same time, Liszt wanted to incorporate the abilities of program music to inspire listeners to imagine scenes, images, or moods. To capture these dramatic and evocative qualities while achieving the scale of an opening movement, he combined elements of overture and symphony in a modified sonata design. The composition of the symphonic poems proved daunting. They underwent a continual process of creative experimentation that included many stages of composition, rehearsal and revision to reach a balance of musical form. (Full article...)

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Хейли Уильямс
Фотография: Свен-Себастьян Саяк.
Хейли Уильямс (родилась 27 декабря 1988 г.) - американская певица, автор песен, музыкант и бизнесвумен. Она является ведущей вокалисткой, основным автором песен и иногда клавишницей рок - группы Paramore . Уильямс родилась в Меридиане, штат Миссисипи, и переехала во Франклин, штат Теннесси, в возрасте пятнадцати лет после развода ее родителей. В 2004 году она сформировала Paramore вместе с Джошем Фарро , Заком Фарро и Джереми Дэвисом . В настоящее время группа состоит из Уильямса, Фарро и Тейлора Йорка. Они выпустили пять студийных альбомов: All We Know Is Falling (2005), Riot! (2007), «Новые глаза» (2009), «Парамор» (2013) и « После смеха» (2017).
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Nicholas Lanier
Painting credit: Anthony van Dyck
Nicholas Lanier (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music, in the service of Charles I and Charles II. He was one of the first composers to introduce monody and recitative to England.

After this oil-on-canvas portrait was painted by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck in Antwerp, Lanier convinced the king to bring van Dyck to England, where he became the leading court painter. The portrait displays an attitude of studied carelessness, often termed sprezzatura, defined as "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it". The painting now hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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Alexz Johnson
Photo: Epitome Pictures
Alexz Johnson (b. 1986) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress, best known for roles as Jude Harrison in the CTV series Instant Star (character shown here), Annie Thelan in the Disney Channel series So Weird, and as Erin Ulmer in the 2006 horror film Final Destination 3. Her album Voodoo was released in 2010.
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Nina Sublatti
Photograph: Ailura
Nina Sublatti (b. 1995) is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and model. Having previously won the 2013 Georgian edition of Idol, she achieved international attention when she represented her country in Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with her song "Warrior". She has since served as a judge on X Factor Georgia and Idols.
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Fervaal
Illustration credit: Carlos Schwabe; restored by Adam Cuerden
Fervaal is an opera with a prologue and three acts by the French composer Vincent d'Indy. Fervaal is the son of a Celtic king and is destined to be the last advocate of the old gods. His mission is to save his homeland from invasion and pillage, but in doing so he must renounce love. This illustration, by the Swiss painter Carlos Schwabe, relates to the 10 May 1898 premiere of the opera at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris. Here, Fervaal is depicted ascending a mountain while carrying the body of his beloved Guilhen at the end of the opera, as the pagan gods and their worshippers fade out of existence with the dawn of Christianity.
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Griselda (A. Scarlatti)
Manuscript: Alessandro Scarlatti
Griselda is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti. First performed in 1721, it is based on the story of Patient Griselda from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. The libretto is by Apostolo Zeno, with revisions by an anonymous author. This manuscript copy by Scarlatti, held at the British Library, is of act one, scene one.
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Les Troyens
Illustration credit: Antoine Barbizet; restored by Adam Cuerden
Les Troyens (The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz, with a libretto written by the composer himself based on Virgil's Aeneid. The score was composed between 1856 and 1858, but Berlioz did not live long enough to see the work performed in its entirety. The first two acts were performed separately under the title La Prise de Troie. This picture shows the cover of the first-edition vocal score for La Prise de Troie, published in 1863.
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Aida
Drawing credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden
Aida is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its premiere there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today, the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886.

This picture is the set design for Act 1, Scene 2, of the opera's 1871 premiere, depicting the portico of the Temple of Vulcan, designed by Philippe Chaperon. The drawing is in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Le mage
Poster credit: Alfredo Leonardo Edel; restored by Adam Cuerden
Le mage is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jean Richepin. First performed at the Paris Opera in 1891, it has rarely been performed since its premiere run of 31 performances, and is one of Massenet's least-known operas. A rare complete concert performance took place at the Massenet Festival in Saint-Étienne in 2012. This poster by Alfredo Edel was produced for the opera's premiere on 16 March 1891.
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Illustration credit: unknown
Ariadne auf Naxos ('Ariadne on Naxos'), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Combining slapstick comedy and consummately beautiful music, the opera's theme is the competition between high and low art for the public's attention. The opera was originally conceived as a 30-minute divertissement to be performed at the end of Hofmannsthal's adaptation of Molière's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. Besides the opera, Strauss provided incidental music to be performed during the play. In the end, the opera was ninety minutes long, and the performance of the play and opera together totalled over six hours. It was first performed at the Staatsoper Stuttgart on 25 October 1912, directed by Max Reinhardt. The combination of the play and opera proved to be unsatisfactory to the audience: those who had come to hear the opera resented having to wait until the play finished. The work was revised in 1916, with the play being replaced by a prologue, and first performed at the Vienna State Opera on 4 October of that year.

This picture is the cover of a vocal score of the revised edition of Ariadne auf Naxos, published in 1916.
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Aida
Photograph: Avinoam Michaeli
Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

This picture shows the set for a performance of Aida by the Israeli Opera in 2011.
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Franz Lehár
Photograph: Bain News Service; restoration: Adam Cuerden
Franz Lehár (1870–1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer mainly known for his operettas, the most successful and best known being The Merry Widow. He also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems and marches.
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Billy Strayhorn
Photograph credit: William P. Gottlieb; restored by Adam Cuerden
Billy Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best remembered for his long-time collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington that lasted nearly three decades. Though classical music was Strayhorn's first love, his ambition to become a classical composer went unrealized because of the harsh reality of a black man trying to make his way in the world of classical music, which at that time was almost completely white. He was introduced to the music of pianists like Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson at age 19, and the artistic influence of these musicians guided him into the realm of jazz, where he remained for the rest of his life. This photograph of Strayhorn was taken by William P. Gottlieb in the 1940s.
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Thelonious Monk
Photograph credit: William P. Gottlieb; restored by Adam Cuerden
Thelonious Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer, and the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. He had a unique improvisational style and famously remarked, "The piano ain't got no wrong notes". He made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", and a wide range of other compositions. He was renowned for a distinctive dress style, which included suits, hats, and sunglasses. He had disappeared from the scene by the mid-1970s and made only a few appearances during the final decade of his life. This 1947 photograph of Monk was taken by the American photographer William P. Gottlieb in Minton's Playhouse, a jazz club in New York.
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Frédéric Chopin
Photo credit: Louis-Auguste Bisson
The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin, often incorrectly described as a daguerreotype. It is believed to have been taken in 1849 during the degenerative stages of his tuberculosis, shortly before his death. Chopin, a Polish pianist and composer of the Romantic era, is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, admired and prolific composers for the piano. He moved to Paris at the age of twenty, adopting the French variant of his name, "Frédéric-François", by which he is now known.

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