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Music

Scope note

The art concerned with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.

This term has 104 records attributed within our system.

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Getty AAT term number

300054146

Broader Terms used

performing arts

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Jephtha, : a sacred oratorio in score / the music composed in the year 1751 by G.F. Handel.

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Publisher: Arnold, Samuel

The Sunday review, July 1887, no. 43, no. 11

Maker(s)

Publisher: Sunday Society

The organist's quarterly journal of compositions / edited by Will[ia]m Spark, Mus. D., organist of the Town Hall, Leeds etc. Part 3, vol. 1, July 1, 1869.

Maker(s)

Editor: Spark, William
Composer: Reinecke, Carl
Composer: Hiles, Henry
Composer: Macfarren, G. A.
Composer: Merkel, Gustav
Composer: Monk, Edwin George

L'Ouïe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lébédeff, Jean
Publisher: Lumière

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Pitch pipe

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

For a Madrigal

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen

Tapestry Song

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen

Violin-Player

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Altdorfer, Albrecht

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Amor Mundi

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Sandys, Frederick
Printmaker: Dalziel family

Maître Wolfframb

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lemud, Aime de
Printer: Lemercier & Cie
Publisher: Goupil

Hosannah

Maker(s)

Designer: Solomon, Simeon
Printmaker: Dalziel family

L'Eau : Vous chantez cette romance à merveille

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legrand, Paul
Designer: Tassaert, Octave (After)
Publisher: Turgis, M. V.

Joueur de mandoline

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mouilleron, Adolphe
Painter: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest (After)
Printer: Bertauts

Guitarrera

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lunois, Alexandre
Printer: Clot, A.

Prince in a canoe with banjo player in the background

Maker(s)

Designer: Hughes, Arthur
Printmaker: Dalziel family

Musical Gem

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baynes, Thomas Mann
Printer: Hullmandel, Charles Joseph
Publisher: Mori & Lavenu

Musicians in a room

Maker(s)

Designer: Houghton, Arthur Boyd
Printmaker: Dalziel family

Girl playing a Hurdy-gurdy

Maker(s)

Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

An image of Figure group

A Poet's Monument attended by Two Female Mourners

Maker(s)

Sculptor: Boizot, Louis Simon

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Dessert plate

Maker(s)

Factory: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
Painter: Allen, Thomas (1813-1915) (Probably)

An image of Globe

Globe

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

An image of Plate

Plate

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

Piedmontese Bagpiper

Maker(s)

Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Kändler, Johann Joachim

An image of Tile

Sancta Cecilia

Maker(s)

Factory: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Painter: Faulkner, Kate
Designer: Burne-Jones, Edward

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