western music

collocation in English

meaningsofwesternandmusic

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western
adjective
uk
/ˈwes.tən/us
/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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music
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmjuː.zɪk/us
/ˈmjuː.zɪk/
a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments, voices, or computers, or a combination of these, intended to give pleasure to people listening ...
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(Definition ofwesternandmusicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Westernmusichistory has shifted from oral to written and now to electronic means of creating and preserving information over the past two thousand years.
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Taylor fails to define exactly what he means bywesternmusicand its non-western counterpart.
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Today, the traditional music is a minority art and overshadowed bywesternmusicand culture.
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Also, the formal system has been orientated towardswesternmusicsince the late nineteenth century.
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They introduced western learning, instruments and performers, experimented withwesternmusicand musical notation, and, in short, promoted an indigenous modernity.
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Although he makes occasional nods toward the diffusion ofwesternmusic, food, and aesthetic norms, his primary emphasis when discussing culture is on material elements of economics and politics.
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Yeh's overview of twentieth-century music education development is particularly helpful in understanding whywesternmusicis not central to the music education process.
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Their third album comprised elements ofwesternmusicand less traditional eastern music unlike the previous albums had.
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Westernmusicis based on major and minor triads.
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Our music is great art, but people of the west think onlywesternmusicis great.
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It is considered equivalent to tonic ofwesternmusic.
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They also sold books and notations onwesternmusic.
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In the early-mid-1990s, countrywesternmusicwas influenced by the popularity of line dancing.
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Westernmusicis more popular in the capital, as in any global city.
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Seven tertian seventh chords are commonly found inwesternmusicand are listed in the table below.
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In the common practice of much modernwesternmusic, especially improvised music like jazz, almost every chromatic note is commonly used within any key signature.
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