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- Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish...
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- Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...ervatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nik...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group w...
11: ...). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work t...
15: ...f a bond...restoring the legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...]] and his friendship with Clara lasted until her death. Later that year, she also met violinist [[Jo...
9: ...]], and in which she contributed greatly to the modern improvement in technique.
11: ...c, at a time when such technical ability was considerably rarer than in the present day, she was herse...
14: ...ed them for King George V of Hanover, Germany who declared them a "marvelous, heavenly pleasure." - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ...bout the fourteenth century and continued to be made until the 1840s, and was revived by Arnold Dolmet...
5: ... volume of the note can be changed by striking harder or softer, and the pitch can also be varied by v...
9: ... labelled ''organ'' by the composers and now regarded as organ repertoire were in fact more accurately...
13: ...Miklos Spanyi, and fine modern copies have been made by makers including Peter Bavington, Martin Kathe...
15: ...c clavichord which uses a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...re. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character, and agility.
4: ==History and development==
6: ...e instrument body to the reed. It was, like the modern instrument,frequently constructed of maple, wit...
8: ...oon" in ''Dioclesian'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word began to be used to refer ...
10: ...ich scholars date to the end of the 17th century, depicts the bassoon much as it appears in its curren... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...[[heckelphone]], the piccolo heckelphone was intended to redress a point of weakness in the romantic o...
3: ... of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s second [[Brandenburg Concerto]], where it played the high trumpet...
5: ...trument's conicity is quite wide (though not as wide as that of a [[saxophone]]), giving it a characte...
9: ...nstrument museum. Of the rest, some may have been destroyed in the second world war, or may be in the ...
11: ...sis. It is this author's contention that were a modern version produced, it would undoubtedly be a gre... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
1: [[Image:Oboe.jpg|thumbnail|50px|right|Modern Oboe]]
3: ...a descendant of the [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived from the French word ''hautbois'', meaning "...
7: ...often produce a nasal (often out-of-tune) and strident tone that is difficult to blend with other inst...
13: ...gether with the flute/recorder it is one of the oldest [[woodwind]] instruments.
17: ...table oboe-makers of that period are the German [[Denner]] and the English [[Stanesby]]. The range fo... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...r to the functioning of the ancestors of the recorder, early folk [[whistle]]s.
3: ...at the instrument intended was the sopranino recorder.
5: ...y at some level, is pre-tuned, and is not too strident in even the most musically-inept hands. It is h...
7: ... of recorder music in which he himself plays recorders.
9: ... are the most common solo instruments in the recorder family. - Tromboon (548 bytes)
3: ...''The Seasonings'' as well as the ''Serenude (for devious instruments)''. - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ... developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and has been known as t...
6: ...sic)|harmonic series]], facilitated by its small, deep [[mouthpiece]], giving it its characteristic "m...
12: ... needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was ...
14: ...ype of horn, called the [[natural horn]] in the modern literature.
16: ...rmonic series, and there were then three valves added to it. Using these three valves, the player cou... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ...on for the visible pipes of an organ to be purely decorative, with the real pipes behind them.]]
7: ...lso found in town halls, and in arts centres intended for the performance of [[classical music]]. In t...
13: ''A more detailed article is to be written at [[styles of pip...
15: ...everal distinctive styles of pipe organ have been developed and achieved popularity at particular time...
19: ...n attempt to provide authentic voices for an extended repertoire, and each one of these instruments is... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to the south by [...
3: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
4: |+<big>'''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'''</big>
6: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:...
7: ...Germany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germany: Coat of Arms]] - Space (10661 bytes)
3: '''Space''' has a range of definitions.
8: ...physics]] does not treat space and time as independent dimensions, but treats both as features of [[sp...
12: ...us concepts used to try to define space have included:
14: * The structure defined by the set of spatial relationships between ...
15: * A [[manifold]] defined by a [[coordinate system]] where an object ... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...ary|dictionaries]] and [[encyclopedia]]s (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the wor...
3: It includes listings or tabular information for quick refere...
7: ...ve come back to this page, paste the javascript code you have copied into your URL window and run it. ...
9: <!-- [[Wikipedia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists even large.
13: ...llpadding=1 cellspacing=0 style="float: right; border-collapse: collapse"> - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day of the medieval Julian yea...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
22: ...[[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published.
25: ... The first claim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ilar [[oud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘u...
3: ==Description of the instrument==
7: ...h the ''peg box''. (There are no gears or other aides for tuning the instrument, which fact — al...
9: ...t (or extremely rarely of metal), and are still made of gut or a synthetic substitute, with metal wind...
13: ...of a lute is a somewhat complicated issue, and is described in a separate section of its own, [[Lute#T... - Aviator (3951 bytes)
2: ... can be applied more broadly, for example to include people such as [[Wing-walking|wing-walkers]] who ...
6: ...te authority given to the ''Pilot in Command'' is derived from that of a ship?s captain.
8: ...for information on license requirements). The [[Federal Aviation Administration]] controls the issuanc...
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34: *[[Geoffrey de Havilland]] - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves...
7: ...]] with a temporary [[Papal Tiara|papal tiara]] made of [[papier-m⣨靝.
9: *[[1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civ...
19: ...en fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
20: *[[1963]] - [[Alcatraz]], a federal [[penitentiary]] on an island in [[San Francis... - Allemande (1374 bytes)
1: ...one is a sort of prelude, whatever its name (prelude, [[toccata]], [[preambulum]], [[ouverture]], etc)...
3: ...board|keyboard]], although ensemble allemandes tended to stay in a more traditional form.
5: ...empos ([[Arcangelo Corelli|Corelli]] wrote allemandes ranging from ''largo'' to ''presto'').
7: ...; [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber's]] ''Douze allemande'' op. 4 of [[1801]] anticipates the [[waltz]]. - Christmas (35108 bytes)
2: ...sited baby Jesus. The exact date of his birth was determined centuries later.
4: ...arrival of Santa Claus or other mythical figures. Despite the influence of American and British Christ...
8: The story of Christ's birth has been handed down for centuries, based primarily on the Chris...
10: ...of the house of David from which Joseph was descended, fulfilled the prophecy of [[Isaiah]].
12: ...ded to have the children of Bethlehem killed in order to eliminate any local rivals to his power. Whe... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish...
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