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• the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century, which spans 26 parts?
• distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams?
  
• the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop?
  
• the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music?
• the Delphic Hymns, written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece, are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world?
• a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
• parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from 1790 until 1900?
• Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type?
• visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille?
• soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
• Oriental metal is a kind of death metal music that originated in Israel which has traditional Jewish and "Oriental" influences?
• Sigismondo d'India, a 17th century Italian composer, produced music in nearly all the forms of the day, including monody, madrigal and motet?
• "James Brown is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?

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