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Consulate General of Brazil - Brazilian Music (1142 words) |
 | Music accompanied the sacramental ceremonies which were performed in village and church plazas. |
 | African music was introduced during the colony's first century and was enriched by its contact with Iberian music. |
 | Schools of music existed in Bahia in the early 17th century and religious music was played in churches throughout the colony. |
| About Music Hall (7897 words) |
 | This species of musical treadmill is continued until the exhausted singer has sung four songs, when (if he sternly refuses to sing any more) he is set free, and allowed to exercise, over other Music Halls, the improving influence of his talent. |
 | The music was well rendered by a thoroughly competent company, night after night, for a long period, so that by the time the opera attracted the tardy attention of the two principal opera managers at Her MajestyÂ’s Theatre in the Haymarket and Covent Garden Theatre, the tunes most popular were being |
 | The rise and progreas of the London music halls naturally excited a good deal of attention and jealousy on the part of the regular theatres, and this was increased when the first Great Variety Theatre was opened in Leicester Square. |