Western culture, also known as Western civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.The term applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization or …

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A musical scale is a discrete set of pitches used in making or describing music. The most important scale in the Western tradition is the diatonic scale but many others have been used and proposed in various historical eras and parts of the world. Each pitch corresponds to a particular frequency, expressed in hertz (Hz), sometimes referred to as cycles per second (c.p.s.).

Western music is a form of country music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada.Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open ranges, Rocky Mountains, and prairies of Western North America. Directly related musically to old English, Irish, Scottish, and folk ballads, also the …

Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature; Western music (North America), a type of American folk music; Music. Westerns, an EP by Pete Yorn; WSTRN, a British hip hop group from west London; Business. The Western, a closed hotel/casino in Las Vegas, United States; Western Cartridge Company, a manufacturer of ammunition

Western music may refer to: Western culture § Music, especially: Western classical music; Western music (North America), a form of country music from the Western United States and Old West, including: New Mexico music; Red Dirt (music) Tejano music; Texas country music; Western swing;

African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop or Afro pop), like African traditional music, is vast and varied.Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, afrobeats, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the …

This is a list of musical genres organized according to the eras of Classical music.The form of a musical composition refers to the general outline of the composition, based on the sections that comprise it or on specific details that are unique to a certain type of composition. For example, a rondo is based on alternation between familiar and novel sections (ABACA); a mazurka is …

Definition. In Western literature, "Art music" is mostly used to refer to music descending from the tradition of Western classical music.Musicologist Philip Tagg refers to the elitism associated with art music as one of an "axiomatic triangle consisting of 'folk', 'art' and 'popular' musics". He explains that each of these three is distinguishable from the others according to certain criteria.

James William Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, actor, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including "Margaritaville" (ranked 234th on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs …