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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
30: There are many kinds of bagpipes; the following is an overview of some...
40: ...st any instruments, from model elephants,to small jazz orchestras. Well known bagads include Bagad Brieg...
47: ...ngly, tunes composed by pipers in civilian pipe bands.
56: ...hat much [[Northumberland|Northumbrian]] piping tends to be very [[staccato]] in style. The chanter ha...
69: ... and lower volume, suitable for playing in folk bands and at informal folk [[sessions]]. Other names fo... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
28: ...evolution]] that started on [[October 23]]. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarte...
38: ...me right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.
39: ...helle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops and thousands of homes.
58: *[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businessman (d. [[2002]])
86: *[[1930]] - [[Buddy Bolden]], American jazz musician (b. [[1877]]) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
20: *''[[Jazz (novel)|Jazz]]'' (1992) - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...y|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Gramm...
12: ...he [[Decca Records|Decca]] label in [[1955]], the jazz record company [[Verve Records|Verve]] was create...
14: ... she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
16: ...' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Louis Armstrong]], but they also recorde...
18: ...n [[actor|actress]] and singer in [[Jack Webb]]'s jazz [[film]] ''[[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also app... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...er soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at [[jazz]], [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-hop]], [[g...
6: ...Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Frank... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan...
7: ... of her birth; her father [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson...
16: ...nderson]], did much to solidify her standing as a jazz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday beg...
18: Compared to other jazz singers, Holliday had a rather limited range of j...
20: ...arrier along the way by becoming one of the black jazz singers of that era to perform with white musicia... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
5: ... Faith]], and performed at the [[1958]] [[Newport Jazz Festival]] and the inauguration of [[John F. Kenn... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...d four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]]...
4: ...e began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
14: ...ackup group, modelled on the classic soul revue bands, named the Kozmic Blues Band, which backed her on...
24: ...as significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influenced styles that were common at the time &m... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...edominantly to [[Rock and roll|rock music]] and [[jazz]], to become one of the most highly respected [[s...
13: ...ld spend the rest of the decade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hi...
15: ...ay from pop toward the freedom and abstraction of jazz, a wordy double album dominated by the lengthy pa...
19: ...ne terribly well reviewed. Seeming to reject the jazz influence, 1982's ''Wild Things Run Fast'' was an... - Music (16462 bytes)
16: ...e spatial location or the movement in space of sounds, gesture, and dance. [[Silence]] is also often co...
51: ...chimes, through computer programs which select sounds. Music which contains elements selected by chance...
54: ...ontaneously improvised works like those of [[free jazz]] performers and [[African]] drummers.
55: ...s dynamically. Even random placement of random sounds, often occurring in [[musical montage]], occurs w...
69: ... on producing a recording which mixes together sounds which were never played "live". Recording, even o... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
8: ...he concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]], [[musica mundana]], [[mu...
12: ...nected with each other - a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the [[occult sciences]] or [[...
24: ...h culture have tended to restrict the range of sounds they will admit." Organization would seem to be a...
28: ...ther they are regular, periodic, even, musical sounds. Nattiez (1990, p.47-8): "My own position can be ...
31: ...ls). This view is often used to argue that some kinds of organized sound 'are not music', while others ... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
10: ...nd in Spain, into the early 20th). Increasing demands on the capabilities of instruments and players in...
14: ... wing joint <font color=red>(3)</font>, which extends from boot to bocal; and the [[bocal]] (or crook) ...
18: ...holes with a complex system of keywork, which extends throughout nearly the entire length of the instru...
20: ...notes, it is rarely called for. The Quintet for Winds by Carl Nielsen concludes with a featured use of ...
35: ...en a harness. The instrument, in either case, extends diagonally across the player's body, similar to t... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
12: ... It is often only used in large orchestras and bands rather than small ensembles.
15: ... E on the third space of the bass staff (which sounds as concert D in the case of the B♭ clarinet...
27: ...monic series|harmonic]], whereas most other woodwinds go up to the second harmonic, an [[octave]] highe...
56: === Concert bands ===
57: ...rticularly central part of the instrumentation. Bands usually include several B♭ clarinets, divid... - Bass clarinet (3454 bytes)
3: ...a [[transposing instrument]] where a written C sounds as B flat), and plays notes an octave below the "...
7: While the range of the soprano clarinet ends at a low E, most bass clarinets have a low E flat...
10: ...hony [[orchestra]]s and as a solo instrument in [[jazz]]. They almost universally play the bass part (u...
13: ...e early 19th century. It is also used in school bands, and are a good option for starting players.
24: [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]'s ''In Freundschaft'' (1977) can also be played on the bass clar... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
11: ...as the main melody instrument in early military bands until ousted by the clarinet.
13: ...ips. The commonly accepted range for the oboe extends from B♭3 to A6, nearly three octaves. In t...
17: ...[[Stanesby]]. The range for the Baroque oboe extends from C4 to E♭6.
21: ...instrument. The range for the Classical oboe extends from C4 to F6.
24: ...common is the baritone or [[bass oboe]], which sounds at an octave lower than the regular oboe. [[Frede... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
5: ...t too strident in even the most musically-inept hands. It is however incorrect to assume that mastery i...
7: ...the Rolling Stones]], [[Jimi Hendrix]]. Prominent jazz musician [[Keith Jarrett]] has even recorded an e...
24: ... raised fifth scale degree in the second octave tends to be rather flat; this is not wholly undesirable... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...phone]] as a replacement for the [[bassoon]] in bands. It was so similar to the saxophone that [[Adolph...
7: A very unusual example of the sarrusophone in [[jazz]] is on the [[1924]] recording by [[Clarence Will... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
3: ...with [[popular music]], [[big band]] music, and [[jazz]], but it was originally intended as both an [[or...
7: ...ted to military bands--this despite his great friendship with the influential Parisian composer [[Berli...
25: ... allowing effects such as note bending, common in jazz. Classical players usually opt for a mouthpiece ...
33: ...e [[treble clef]]. The standard written range extends from a Bb below the staff to an F# three leger li...
35: ...ritten note; on a Bb tenor saxophone, the note sounds as Bb a ninth below. The Eb baritone is an octave... - Alto saxophone (1789 bytes)
8: ...reat versatility and is used commonly in concert, jazz, funk, blues, pop, and rock music.
10: ...n price from hundreds of dollars to several thousands. - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
18: ...ensemble music with koto and samisen, folk music, jazz, modern music.
48: ...ed in western genres of music, including [[smooth jazz]] and rock music, especially after being commonly...
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