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- Rhodes piano (5144 bytes)
1: ...zz]] and [[Rock and roll|rock]] songs of the last fifty years.
3: ...hodesMkII73.jpg|right|thumb|Rhodes Electric Stage Piano Mark II 73 note]]
7: ...ed hammers to strike sets of strings, in a Rhodes piano rubber-tipped hammers strike [[tuning fork]]-like...
11: ...pickup]]. The pickups' output is fed to an [[amplifier]] which can be adjusted to produce the desired ...
15: ...s modifications done by a company called "Dyno My Piano" became popular: it made the sound brighter, hard...
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- Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
41: ... led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phan... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
9: ...iano work, [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]],...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...Stefan Askenase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva and Bolzano within a few w...
7: ...age 19) of such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rha...
9: ...aikovsky]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]. From [[1969]] to [[1973]], Arge...
17: ...kofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: Ma Mere L'Oye'' ([[Grammy Awards of 2...
20: ...iano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3/[[B鬡 Bartart: Piano Concerto No. 3'' ([[Grammy Awards of 2000|2000]]) - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
8: ... I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
16: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...;на''', [[Tatar language|Tatar]] '''Sofia ijğ䴠qızı Ğ?dullina''') (bo...
3: ...e [[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954...
5: ...by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down he...
11: In 2000 Sofia Gubaidulina, along with [[Tan Dun]], [[Osvaldo G...
18: * Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957) - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...vements are being increasingly recognised as significant in themselves.
3: Born in [[Hamburg]], Fanny benefited from the same [[music]]al education and upbrin...
7: ...t the piano came in 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
9: ...holars nowadays believe it was actually Fanny who first worked in the genre. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: A painter who had also dabbled in [[piano]], [[guitar]] and [[ukulele]] since childhood, Mi...
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
11: ...song)|Carey]]" and "[[All I Want]]". Others were piano led, some exhibiting the rhythms associated with ...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...erformance partners. Schumann is credited with refining the tastes of audience through her presentati...
9: ...ar. In [[1878]] she was appointed teacher of the piano at the [[Hoch Conservatorium]] at [[Frankfurt am ...
11: ... songs and of some charming music, mainly for the piano, and the authoritative editor of her husband's wo...
14: ...olin and cello, and three Romances for violin and piano. Inspired by her husbands birthday, the three Rom... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a ph...
4: ...h Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini...
6: ...lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side of "Piss Factor...
8: [[1975]] saw the release of their first album ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', produced ...
17: ...[[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]'s ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi.'' She released ''Peace and Noise'' (with the sin... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lassically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that ...
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
13: ...were rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worke...
23: ... Tori performed on [[harpsichord]] in addition to piano. The single "Caught A Lite Sneeze" was a hit in t... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...the illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Ricc...
7: ... prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer [[Carlo Ponti]].
9: ...ptuous physique (she even appeared topless in the films ''[[Two Nights with Cleopatra]]'' and ''[[It's...
11: ... Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ... performance prizes, the distinction of being the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]... - Ivory (4783 bytes)
1: ..., it was used for [[billiards|billiard]] balls, [[piano]] keys, buttons and ornamental items. The word "i...
13: ... the radius of the tusk. The three dimensional configuration of the dentinal tubules is under genetic ...
15: ...rca]]s and hippos can also be shrimshawed or superficially carved, thus retaining their original shape...
19: ...versity]] found that less than one percent of the five-hundred million US dollars ivory sales generate... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
7: ...ed a ''fretted clavichord''. This technique simplifies the construction since fewer strings are requir...
11: Much of the music written for [[harpsichord]], [[piano]], and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period ci...
13: ...Simmonds, Richard Troeger, and Miklos Spanyi, and fine modern copies have been made by makers includin...
15: ...es a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: '''Defining [[music]]''' is as difficult as defining [[art]] or anything. It is a problem that has...
12: ... effects. Rather than being ridiculed as unscientific, Medieval thought should be seen as a system tha...
14: [[Musica instrumentalis]], finally, was the lowliest of the three disciplines a...
17: ...there is no term for music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many othe...
24: ...efinition is seen by many as being too broad. The fifteenth edition of the ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ... some regions "curtall", as it was shortened significantly). The English name of "bassoon" comes from...
10: ...omposer-performers—spurred on the further refinement of the bassoon. Increased sophistication bo...
16: ... the finger holes are drilled obliquely to aid in fingering, and wooden instruments are lined with a h...
20: ...even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]] only a... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ... word ''clarino'' meaning ''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that ...
11: ... writing. Additionally, improvements made to the fingering systems of the clarinet over time have ena...
15: ...h school music and beyond, and sometimes earlier. Finally, the most advanced range goes up further bey...
20: .... The instrument uses a single wooden (sometimes "fiber" or plastic) [[reed (music)|reed]] which is he...
24: ...between the upper and lower joint. This hourglass figure is not visible to the naked eye, but helps in... - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
4: *Fingering is slightly different, particularly at the...
5: ...er hand position is also required, as the primary finger keys are widely spaced.
11: ...s a high range extending to middle C, but the top fifth is rarely used. Tonally, it sounds much like t...
16: ... and ''[[Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel)|Piano Concerto for the Left Hand]]''. - Musical instrument (3823 bytes)
1: ...s reserved generally to items that have that specific purpose.
17: ...ave a keyboard, such as the [[glockenspiel]], are fitted with one.
19: ...ns of instruments ]] exist. To learn about a specific instrument, consult the [[list of musical instru...
21: ...rcussion | percussive]] sounds, may have been the first instrument, or, perhaps, found [[percussion]] ... - Tenor horn (3923 bytes)
5: ...[[trumpet]]s, [[cornet]]s or [[flugelhorn]]s, and fills in the gap above the lower tenor and bass intr...
18: ..., the pitch to be lowered by. Therefore the valve fingering is 2-3 (which means the 2nd and 3rd valves...
23: ... in UK brass bands and remains the most common configuration seen. - Trombone (15819 bytes)
6: ...dash; "trumpet" — and ''-one'' — a suffix for "large". Thus, quite literally, a ''trombone...
14: ...he size of a trombone choir can vary greatly from five or six to 20 or more members).
25: ...have no valves or keys to change the pitch by a definite amount, trombonists learn seven ''slide posit...
26: The slide is in "first position" when it is retracted all the way and...
33: ...s the player to bridge the entire gap between the first harmonic and the fundamental. The notes on th...
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