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Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for music. Music is sound in time. It is a manipulation of time using sounds to evoke emotion in the listener. Music is often described as an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. It is considered by some cultures to be a language or an accompaniment to a dance and a means to communicate with spirits. Within the arts, music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and an auditory art form though the definitions of music vary according to culture and social context.

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Lemminkainen's Mother (1897) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela is an earlier evocation of the themes of motherhood and war explored in Symphony No. 3.

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal later style.

A solo soprano sings a different Polish text in each of the three movements. The first is a Silesian folk song, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus. The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a child who has lost a parent. The dominant themes of the symphony are motherhood and separation through war. (More...)

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...that the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a son, Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, who was a noted composer himself?
...that the composer Arnold Schoenberg once said of his music: "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"?
...that according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent more time on the UK album charts than those of any other musical act?
...that The Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert on August 20, 1966?
...that "Lady Marmalade" was a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label?
...that Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that Jully Black is a Canadian R&B singer best-known for her Top 40 hit "Rally’n"?
...that Russian composer Boris Sobinov was abducted from the Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union?
...that Austrian composer Alban Berg died from an insect bite that caused blood poisoning?

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