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Om Namo Narayanaya: meaning and purpose of popular Vishnu mantra
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PIANO
Mussorgsky's pictures redrawn for the prog rock exhibition
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Suite
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A Dios le Pido: Juanes' Spanish lyrics behind the song success
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Vasant Rai's fretless guitar arrangements for Indian classical
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Livin' la Vida Loca: why is Ricky Martin's best song so catchy?
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Isabella Leonarda: convent star of the Baroque era
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Poetry
Down by the Salley Gardens: famous Yeats poem evoking old Irish love ballad was set to the traditional air
Ireland
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Classical Guitar
The guitar caprices of Luigi Legnani imbued with famous Paganini works
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ELECTRIC GUITAR
Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space
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Early 1930s recordings of classical sitar by Enayat Khan
India
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The renaissance of Chinese Erhu fiddle led by Liu Tianhua
China
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Charley Patton's guitar tricks bridged the genre gap between Delta blues and rock'n'roll
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1920s
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2000s
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Om Namo Narayanaya: meaning and purpose of popular Vishnu mantra
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Venetian architecture sparked a new musical era in Europe
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Paganini's one-stringed soap opera
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Oye Como Va: meaning and origin of the best-known cha-cha-chá song
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Big band
Take 'A' train jazz standard originated from Duke Ellington's letter
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Seven Nation Army riff conquers sport and classical music
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Ludwig August Lebrun: the sweet genius of Mannheim
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Progressive rock adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's piano concerto features innovative electronic drums
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Progressive Rock
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Toccata
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20st Century Classical
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1970s
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Pachelbel's Canon: the harmonic sequence that flooded pop music
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Ombra mai fu: Handel's best-known melody of failed Serse opera
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The Erhu fiddle melody recorded by blind Abing spread worldwide revealing composition methods of Chinese folk music
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Moreno Torroba as the first-ever Spanish non-guitarist who composed for solo guitar
Spain
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Suite
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Gymnopédies: the ambient genre predicted by piano gems of late Romanticism
England
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France
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Ambient
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Romantic
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20st Century Classical
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The Ektara: traditional music instrument of the Bauls, wandering minstrels from Bengal
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The irony of Cuban love song in the work of trova-musician Compay Segundo
Cuba
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