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- Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...ition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of [[Dionysus]], ...
9: ...ia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poet [[Arion]] is credite...
17: ...have complete plays that survive extant. All are from Athens. They are the tragic writers [[Aeschylu...
21: ... Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]]. One of New Comedy'...
35: ...ee doors between the skene and the orchestra. In front of the skene there may have been a raised acti... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
7: ...0s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vya...
9: ...posed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quart...
35: *''Garten von freuden und traurigkeiten'' for flute, viola, harp a...
69: *''The Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi'' for cello, chamber choir, and or... - Music (16462 bytes)
20: ...ist solo vocal and instrumental genres with free, improvisational rhythms with no regular pulse;<sup>[[#Notes|5]]...
38: ...lude a mixture of both, and performance may range from improvised solo playing for one's enjoyment to ...
43: ... is produced as [[sheet music]]. To perform music from notation requires an understanding of both the ...
45: ===Improvisation, interpretation, composition===
49: ...nventions and even "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. See also, [[precompositional... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...ges and below. Also called ''fagott'', in German, from a word meaning "bundle of sticks" due to its co...
6: ...y to the reed. It was, like the modern instrument,frequently constructed of maple, with thick walls to...
8: ...nificantly). The English name of "bassoon" comes from a more general term referring to the bass regis...
14: ...g joint <font color=red>(3)</font>, which extends from boot to bocal; and the [[bocal]] (or crook) <fo...
16: ...ain]]ed and [[varnish]]ed. The top of the bell is frequently completed with a ring, often of plastic o... - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
3: In [[Zaire]], [[southern Africa]], it is played by eight different ethnic grou...
5: ...e for the [[nostril]] can be on the side, just in front of the nodal wall, or in the center of the nod...
7: ... more pure pathway. The individual charm of the [[improvisation|improvised]] [[melody|melodies]] (part of the pla...
9: ...nd, and the disposition of the fingerholes differ from node to vent hole so two alternating scales can...
11: ...ng various scales. Some players take a filter tip from a [[cigarette]] and plug the other unused nostr... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...he [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived from the French word ''hautbois'', meaning "high wood". It is...
11: The oboe first appeared in French courts around [[1650]]. In the [[17th century...
13: ... The commonly accepted range for the oboe extends from B♭3 to A6, nearly three octaves. In the ...
17: ...anesby]]. The range for the Baroque oboe extends from C4 to E♭6.
19: [[Image:Oboe.png|left|framed|border width=0|Classical Oboe]] - Theatre (9476 bytes)
5: ...g arts]] concerned with [[acting]] out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, g...
8: ...peech, either from written text ([[play]]s), or [[improvisation|improvised]] is paramount. "[[Musical theater|Mus...
25: "[[Comedy]]" Comes from the Greek word ''komos'' which means celebratio...
60: ...e today is such that its practitioners can borrow from all of these elements and more, and present som...
73: *[[Off-Broadway]] and the [[fringe theatre|London fringe]] - Harp (23216 bytes)
2: ...and [[strings (music)|strings]]. Some, known as ''frame harps'', also have a forepillar; those lacking...
4: Harps are found in [[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[North]] and [[South America]]...
8: ...rp and modern concert harp. ''Public domain image from Websters Dictionary 1911.'' <small>([[Media:Har...
12: ... The oldest documented references to the harp are from [[30th century BC|3000 BC]] in [[Mesopotamia]] ...
24: ...(1.2 m) wide at the widest point. The notes range from three octaves below middle C to three and a hal... - Acting (1700 bytes)
1: ...speaking or singing the written text or [[play]]. From the [[Latin]] word ''agĕre'' meaning "to...
3: ...t (language)|accent]]s, [[improvisational theatre|improvisation]], observation and emulation, [[mime]], [[stage c... - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
29: ...usic'' is occasionally used: it designates music from a period in musical history covering approximat...
33: ...formance practices. Normally, this ability comes from formal training, which usually begins with lear...
37: ...-note details) in the score. Indeed, deviations from the composer's intentions are sometimes condemn...
41: ...sicians has been enriched by a revival of the old improvisational practices. During the Classical period, [[Wolf...
51: ...essible', (trashy?) Frank Zappa's work 'simple', (Frank Zappa is considered by many a serious composer... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
33: ...band]], [[bebop]], [[hard bop]], [[cool jazz]], [[free jazz]], [[jazz fusion]] and [[smooth jazz]].
37: ...h degree of technical skill and musical knowledge from the performers.
39: ...rm today is a widely varied one, using influences from all of the past styles, although the root of mo...
45: ... the early 1960s rhythm 'n' blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] a...
49: ...[1950s]]. Its earliest form, rock and roll, arose from multiple genres in the late [[1940s]], most imp... - Theater (9475 bytes)
4: ...g arts]] concerned with [[acting]] out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, g...
7: ...peech, either from written text ([[play]]s), or [[improvisation|improvised]] is paramount. "[[Musical theater|Mus...
24: "[[Comedy]]" Comes from the Greek word ''komos'' which means celebratio...
59: ...e today is such that its practitioners can borrow from all of these elements and more, and present som...
72: *[[Off-Broadway]] and the [[fringe theatre|London fringe]] - Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...ition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of [[Dionysus]], ...
9: ...ia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poet [[Arion]] is credite...
17: ...have complete plays that survive extant. All are from Athens. They are the tragic writers [[Aeschylu...
21: ... Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]]. One of New Comedy'...
35: ...ee doors between the skene and the orchestra. In front of the skene there may have been a raised acti... - Architecture (13950 bytes)
1: ... scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of [[town planning]], [[urban de...
6: ... is first a process of trial and error, and later improvisation or replication of a successful trial. The archite...
10: ... [[Greek]] and the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] evolved from more civic ideas and many new building types em...
14: ...ughout the countries that are, or were, Islamic - from [[Morocco]] and [[Spain]] to [[Persian (Iranian...
18: ...In the 19th century [[Ecole des Beaux Arts]] in [[France]], the training was toward producing quick sk... - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
1: ...sician. A score can be constructed (laboriously) from a complete set of parts and vice versa.
3: ...matic scale]], and duration is shown in beats and fractions of a beat.
8: ...f musical notation was practiced by the Egyptians from the 3rd millennium BC and by others in the Orie...
10: ... until approximately the [[4th century]] AD; many fragments of compositions using this notation surviv...
12: ...n as [[Visigothic neumes]], but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered.
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