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- Dombra (1417 bytes)
15: * [[kobyz]] (a bowed instrument, played like a [[cello]]) - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
41: ...://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Rice began classes with the goa... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
11: ...h and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
18: ... Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
22: *''Concordanza'' for chamber ensemble (1971)
24: *''Ten Preludes'' for solo cello (1974)
32: ...Croce'' for cello and organ (1979), for bayan and cello (1991) - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...e Wieck Schumann''' ([[September 13]], [[1819]] – [[May 20]], [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Rob...
7: ...rly age with her father, the well-known piano [[pedagogue]] [[Friedrich Wieck]]. She had a brilliant c...
11: ...bility was considerably rarer than in the present day, she was herself the composer of a few songs and...
14: ...r violin and piano. Inspired by her husbands birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and de... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: '''Lucille Ball''' ([[August 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United States...
5: ... shy girl was outshined by another pupil: [[Bette Davis]]. Lucille later went home in a few weeks when...
20: ...des in [[radio]], and in fact other TV sitcoms predated her show), and was among the first stars to fi...
24: ...que, and close choreography. Among other non-standard techniques used in filming the show, cans of pa...
28: ...est marriages had come to an end. Until his dying day in [[1986]], Arnaz and Ball would remain the bes... - Trombone (15819 bytes)
6: ...tromba'' — "trumpet" — and ''-one'' — a suffix for "large". Thus, quite literally, a...
12: ... a bell that was more conical and less flared. Today, ''sackbut'' is generally used to refer to the e...
18: ... often borrowed from other instruments, usually [[cello]] or [[bassoon]].
25: The standard ''tenor trombone'' has a [[fundamental]] [[note]] of B♭ and is usually treat...
26: ...ts can play lower "false tones" and much lower "pedal tones" on the instrument. - String instrument (8163 bytes)
7: ...e such as a [[plectrum]]. Instruments like the [[cello]] and [[rebec]] are usually played by drawing a [...
22: ...ces a thin, "breathy" sound, emphasizing the [[fundamental frequency]].
45: * [[Cello]]
46: **[[Electric cello]]
53: * [[Hardingfele|Hardanger]] ([[Norway]]) - List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
14: ... the [[vocal cord]]s into [[oscillation]]. The fundamental frequency is controlled by the tension of t...
18: ...; most keyboard instruments have extra means ([[pedal]]s for a piano, [[Organ stop|stops]] for an orga...
22: ...n inscriptions and the [[Bible]], and probably predate recorded history. The human body, generating bo...
148: * [[Cello]]
162: * [[Hardingfele|Hardanger]] - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
3: ...sounds (per changeable taperack) such as strings, cello, and the famous eight-voice choir. The sound on e...
10: ...et]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[King Hussein]] of [[Jordan]] and [[Scientology]] founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]]...
12: ...lyphonic]] electronically generated sounds in the days before polyphonic synthesizers.
24: ...se its sounds were [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]], who featured it heavily on their platinum-se... - Telharmonium (3225 bytes)
8: ... itself was so large it occupied an entire room — wires from the controlling console were fed di...
10: ...dinary telephone receivers to large paper cones — a primitive form of [[loudspeaker]]. Indeed, C...
12: ...lute]], [[bassoon]], [[clarinet]], and also the [[cello]]. - Guitar (36953 bytes)
15: ...estor of the Guitar. Excavated in Susa, [[Iran]]. Dated 3rd Millennium BC.]]
18: ...Persian lute which indeed had three strings but today has four. The Chitra Veena is depicted in Indian...
20: ..., the name moved into the English language. And today the guitar, or what it has evolved into, is used...
24: ...t produced electric guitars for the wider public. Danelectro also pioneered [[Tube Amp]] technology.
48: ...russ rod allows the neck to be adjusted to accommodate these changes -- tightening it will curve the n... - Marimba (4188 bytes)
8: ...he tubes, which act not unlike the main body of a cello or guitar by amplifying the sound. In exceptional...
13: ...]]; [[gyil]] duets are the traditional music of [[Dagara]] funerals in [[Ghana]]. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...sh; [[July 28]], [[1750]] <small>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>){{an|birthanddeath}} was a Germ...
19: ...en]]. Some of Bach's earliest extant compositions date to this period (including, according to some sc...
22: ...ble by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musicians when their ins...
24: ...otables as [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]]. Still today, students of nearly every instrument encounter B...
28: ...for Solo Violin'', and the ''Orchestral Suites'', date from this period. - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ...portant part of the performance. Finally, [[dance|dancing]] is often part of an opera performance, par...
11: ...nied by only the continuo group (harpsichord and 'cello or bassoon). During the period when composers of...
13: ...ic action in 19th century melodrama survives in today's tradition of [[film scores]], and spectacular ...
20: ...first opera score to have survived to the present day.
24: ...rformed in their typical multi-voice texture, and dancing accompanied by the present instrumentalists.... - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ...r composers and his works are frequently played today.
7: ...rtl Mozart]]. He was [[baptism|baptized]] on the day after his birth at [[St. Rupert's Cathedral]] as...
11: ...er gr�ndlichen Violinschule'' ("Essay on the fundamentals of violin playing") was published in 1756,...
19: ... the Italian journey, which is now an almost legendary tale, occurred when he heard [[Gregorio Allegri...
29: ...Wolfgang]] (later a minor composer himself; 1791–1844), married or had children. - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...кий}}) ([[June 17]], [[1882]] – [[April 6]], [[1971]]) was a [[Russia|Russian]...
12: ...sed three major works for the [[Ballets Russes]]—''L'oiseau de feu'', ''[[Petrushka]]'' ([[1911]...
17: ...ounts of his time and expenditure to his sons and daughters. He was still young when he married his c...
25: ...essfully writing music for films. Stravinsky had adapted to life in [[France]], but moving to America ...
43: ...lude: ''Renard'' ([[1916]]), ''[[L'histoire du soldat]] (A Soldier's Tale)'' ([[1918]]), and ''Les no...
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