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Classical music festivals in the Americas
Classical music festivals in the Americas are recurring multi-day gatherings of orchestral, chamber, and operatic music, a summer model that grew from Tanglewood after 1934 and includes training academies like Aspen.
Classical period (music)
The Classical period (c. 1750–1820) of Western art music, between Baroque and Romantic eras; homophonic texture, sonata form, symphony and string quartet; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert.
Classics IV
Classics IV, also billed Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost, an American soft rock band formed 1965 in Jacksonville, Florida, known for "Spooky" (#3, 1968), "Stormy" and "Traces" (#2, 1969); Cobb, Daughtry and Buie later formed the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
Classification of operas by subject, setting and language
Classification of operas by subject, setting, and language groups operas by story source, setting, and sung language rather than formal genre, with censorship often forcing settings to shift.
Claude (singer)
Claude (Claude Kiambe, born 2003) is a Dutch-Congolese singer-songwriter whose 2022 hit "Ladada (Mon Dernier Mot)" topped the Dutch charts; he represented the Netherlands at Eurovision 2025 with "C'est la vie", finishing 12th.
Claude Barzotti
Claude Barzotti, born Francesco Barzotti (1953–2023), was a Belgian singer of Italian origin whose ballad 'Le Rital' topped the French chart for seven weeks in 1983.
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy (Achille-Claude Debussy, 1862-1918), French composer and pianist born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; creator of Pelléas et Mélisande, La mer, and the Préludes, known for non-functional harmony, parallel chords, and free form.
Claude François
Claude François (Cloclo), French yé-yé and disco singer born 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt, died 1978 in Paris. Creator of the Clodettes and the Flèche label; "Comme d'habitude" became "My Way" for Sinatra.
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 1944, Vannes) is a French musical theatre composer, not the Viennese modernist Arnold Schoenberg. With Alain Boublil he wrote Les Misérables (1980) and Miss Saigon (1989), winning two Tonys and a Grammy.
Claudette Ortiz
Claudette Ortiz (born 1981, Willingboro, NJ) is an American R&B singer, female vocalist of City High ('What Would You Do?', 2001) and a season-one cast member of TV One's R&B Divas: LA.
Claudette Rogers Robinson
Claudette Annette Rogers Robinson, "First Lady of Motown," was an original member and female vocalist of the Miracles, the first group signed to Motown; "Shop Around" was the label's first million-seller, and she was Smokey Robinson's wife.
Claudia Brücken
Claudia Brücken is a German singer, born in 1963, best known as lead vocalist of the Düsseldorf synth-pop band Propaganda and later the duo Act.
Claudia Previn
Claudia Previn (Claudia Previn Stasny), American singer, editor, and writer; elder daughter of André Previn and jazz singer Betty Bennett, based in Julian, California.
Claudinho & Buchecha
Claudinho & Buchecha were a Brazilian funk carioca duo from São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, credited with popularizing funk melody in Brazil in the 1990s.
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado (1933-2014), Italian conductor; music director of La Scala, LSO, Vienna State Opera, and Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor 1989-2002; founded Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, born in Cremona in 1567, who carried music from the Renaissance into the Baroque as the first great opera composer.
Claudio Sanchez
Claudio Sanchez is the American singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Coheed and Cambria and creator of The Amory Wars sci-fi saga spanning albums, comics, and the novel Year of the Black Rainbow.
Clave (rhythm)
Clave is the two-bar rhythmic framework of Afro-Cuban son, rumba, and salsa, with son and rumba forms in 3-2 and 2-3 directions, built on the 3-3-2 tresillo cell and spread worldwide through Latin, jazz, and pop music.
Clavichord
The clavichord (German: Clavichord, Klavichord) is a small, quiet European stringed keyboard instrument, the earliest key-hammered type, in which brass tangents strike and press the strings. Known from the early 15th century, fretted and unfretted types, with the unique Bebung vibrato; displaced by the piano after 1800.
Clavinet
Clavinet: electromechanical keyboard by Hohner, designed by Ernst Zacharias, introduced 1964; electrically amplified clavichord with hammer-struck strings and magnetic pickups; D6 (1971) is the iconic 60-key model heard on Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".
Clavinova
Clavinova is Yamaha's line of digital pianos, launched in 1983 with the YP-40 and now split into CLP, CSP, and CVP series, using CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial samples, VRM resonance modeling, and GrandTouch wooden key actions.
Clawfinger
Clawfinger, Swedish-Norwegian rap-metal band formed 1990 in Stockholm, known for Deaf Dumb Blind (1993), the anti-racist single "Nigger", and the 2026 comeback album Before We All Die; not to be confused with other uses of the name.
Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (Clayton Holmes Grissom), American pop singer born 1978 in Raleigh, North Carolina; American Idol season 2 runner-up (2003) whose debut single "This Is the Night" and album Measure of a Man both hit No. 1, later a Broadway performer, UNICEF ambassador, and two-time congressional candidate.
Clay Walker
Clay Walker (Ernest Clayton Walker Jr., born 1969, Beaumont, Texas) is an American country singer whose 1993 debut produced consecutive No. 1 hits; he has charted over 30 singles, 11 No. 1s, four platinum albums, and founded Band Against MS after his 1996 multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
Clazziquai Project
Clazziquai Project (클래지콰이) is a South Korean electronic and acid-jazz music project formed by producer DJ Clazzi in 2001, with vocalists Alex and Horan, known for "Be My Love" in the 2005 drama My Lovely Samsoon.
CLC (씨엘씨) (group)
CLC (씨엘씨, CrystaL Clear) was a South Korean girl group under Cube Entertainment, debuting March 19, 2015 as five members and expanding to seven in 2016; known for the Hobgoblin girl-crush turn, first win with "No", disbandment June 2022, and a seven-member 2026 reunion.
Clean Bandit
Clean Bandit, British electronic group formed 2008 at Cambridge, fusing classical strings with dance pop. Members Chatto, J. Patterson, L. Patterson; hits Rather Be, Rockabye, Symphony, Solo; Grammy 2015.
Cleanin' Out My Closet
"Cleanin' Out My Closet" is a 2002 Eminem song from The Eminem Show, second single after "Without Me"; produced with Jeff Bass, it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK chart, attacking his mother Debbie before his 2013 apology song "Headlights".
Clef
Clef: the symbol at the start of a musical staff assigning pitches to lines and spaces. Three signs from letters C, F, G; treble, bass, alto, tenor in regular use; traced to Guido of Arezzo's lettered stave.
Clem Burke
Clem Burke (Clement Anthony Bozewski, 1954–2025), Blondie's co-founding drummer on all albums 1976–2017, also Eurythmics drummer and briefly Elvis Ramone of the Ramones; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2006, Clem Burke Drumming Project founder.