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- Saxophone (14311 bytes)
20: The majority of saxophones produced today are made from [[brass]]. Manufacturers usually a...
25: ... tip opening and a rather large chamber, giving a darker, more stable sound. Many classical players p...
28: ...ctrum). Unfortunately, this scale is far from standardized, and a Rico 3 is decidedly softer than a Va...
33: ...ophone is written on the [[treble clef]]. The standard written range extends from a Bb below the staff...
59: ...rmonics. Especially in the higher register a pure glissando from second octave A upwards is easier than lower... - Slide whistle (1974 bytes)
3: ...e sound tracks of [[animated cartoon]]s, when a [[glissando]] can suggest something rapidly ascending or fall...
7: The slide whistle is today thought of primarily as a kind of "toy" instrume... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
35: note) in a three octave range. The standard diatonic harmonica is
38: ...monicas are available in all keys. Here is a standard
49: ... the tonic triad, is given the blow, and the secondary notes: D-G-B-F-A, the draw.
56: ... on the major scale. "Bending" also creates the [[glissando]]s characteristic of much blues harp and country ...
120: ...n the first place). Rather than providing the standard C major and G dominant chords, the Mixolydian p... - Harp (23216 bytes)
12: ...ypt]]. It is mentioned in the [[Bible]] -- [[King David]] was a harpist -- and ancient epics, and even...
14: ...d along the neck to allow for the double-action pedal harp, capable of raising the pitch of a string b...
16: ...hology]], a magical harp is possessed by [[The Dagda]].
22: ==The pedal/concert harp==
24: The '''pedal harp''', or '''concert harp''', is large and tec... - Timpani (31735 bytes)
3: ...ssical]] [[orchestra]] in the [[17th century]]. Today, they are used in many types of [[musical ensemb...
14: ...|500px|[[Walter Light]] [[Timpani#Pedal timpani|pedal]] and [[Timpani#Chain timpani|chain]] timpani se...
20: ... tones while [[Parabola|parabolic]] bowls produce darker tones. Another factor that affects the timbre...
22: ...impani can play up into the [[treble clef]]. In [[Darius Milhaud]]'s [[ballet]] ''La cré¡´ion du monde...
30: ...– seen here on the left of the pedal – to change the pitch of the drum.]] - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
17: ...composed in the late 20th century through present day
20: ...Some authorities subdivide the periods further by date or style. However, it should be noted that thes...
51: ...sidered by many a serious composer) or Billie Holiday's 'facile'." (light?) (Middleton, 1990)
59: ...ructural layers, and thus much depth. However, Lerdahl's theories explicitly exclude "associational" d...
65: ...municate a quality of emotion which has a transcendant quality, expressing universals of the human con... - Golden Ratio (15928 bytes)
3: ...t that numbers were not units as we define them today, but were expressions of ratios. The golden rati...
13: ...''sectio aurea'', "golden section", by [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. The American mathematician [[Mark Barr]]...
64: ...nbsp;− ''b'') is in even lower terms — a contradiction.
105: ...y name a precious jewel."<br><div align="right">—''[[Johannes Kepler]]''</div></blockquote>
134: ...heorem|approximation theorem]]. It is also the fundamental unit of the algebraic number field <math>\m...
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