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- Musical instrument (3823 bytes)
1: ...w be controlled by a [[musician]], can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved genera...
3: The academic study of musical instruments is called ''[[organology]]''.
17: ...s''' are any instruments that are played with a [[musical keyboard]]. Every key generates one or more sound...
19: ...ist of musical instruments]] or [[List of archaic musical instruments]]. - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...uments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified electronically - for example an [[elec...
3: ...t]]s; the border between sound effects and actual musical instruments is often hazy.
7: Electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of...
9: == Early electronic musical instruments ==
10: In the broadest sense, the very first electrified musical instrument was the [[Denis d?or]] dating from [[1... - List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
2: ...w be controlled by a [[musician]], can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved genera...
4: The academic study of musical instruments is called ''[[organology]]''.
18: ...s''' are any instruments that are played with a [[musical keyboard]]. Every key generates one or more sound...
20: ...ist of musical instruments]] or [[List of archaic musical instruments]].
27: ...categorized]] by section. Please add to [[List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number]] also. - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
1: ... 1989, p.3). Music can also be categorised by non-musical criteria such as geographical origin. Such catego...
3: ...more on commercial and [[marketing]] motives than musical criteria. [[John Zorn]], for example, a musician ...
5: ...esent its own style, as well as that of any other musical genre.
15: ... also'': [[List of music genres]], [[Genealogy of musical genres]]
20: ...assical music and other serious forms of artistic musical expression, Western or non-Western, especially re... - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
1: ... all players together, while '''parts''' contain only the music played by an individual musician. A s...
3: ...standard music notation is based on a five-line [[Musical staff|staff]] with symbols for each note showing ...
8: There is some evidence that a kind of musical notation was practiced by the Egyptians from the ...
10: ...e of a complete composition — indeed the ''only'' surviving complete composition using this nota...
12: ...mbols known as [[neumes]]; the earliest surviving musical notation of this type is in the ''Musica discipli...
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force. Unlike most of its [[Continent|continental]] neighbor...
69: ...Central America. Since the late [[19th century]] only two brief periods of violence have marred its de...
78: ...ca has no military by constitution and maintains only domestic police and security forces for internal...
118: ...nal work opportunities as agricultural workers mainly in the south-eastern border region with [[Panama...
127: ...rhythm known as [[tambito]] as well a distinctive musical genre known as the [[punto]]. Two examples are th... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco...
45: ..., say, the first beat of a bar, or just as a more musical way to get from one note to the next. - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: Only four playwrights from this period have complete ...
21: ...was [[Greek comedy#New Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p...
45: ...e characters spoke or chanted in [[verse]] set to musical [[accompaniment]]. - China (38909 bytes)
7: ...f as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see [[political status of T...
16: ...ng the [[Spring and Autumn Period]], it was used only to describe the states politically descended fro...
27: The Republic of China as it controlled mainland China, and later, the People's Republic of Chi...
30: The most commonly accepted theory as to the origin of the [[Englis...
34: ...;中華地區) refers to [[Mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], [[Taiwan]],... - Clip art (7441 bytes)
55: ...om/image/category/musical-instruments-clipart.htm Musical Instruments Clipart] - Performance (3170 bytes)
5: * musical genres:
9: ** [[musical]]
15: ** [[musical]] - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
52: ...landmark copyright case was decided in the 1990s, musical artists gained control over their works when perf...
92: ... sales" or "drug gangs." [http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2787 Timeline]
105: ....html Rush's Forced Conscripts]" appeared on the online news and opinion magazine [[Salon.com]]. The ...
109: ...bill with the intent being to get this program - only one hour of which is carried on Armed Forces Rad... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
9: ...[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. He performed a short musical concert for the Imperial Family. When the Empress...
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
85: ...me impatient with the jeweller and snapped, "Not only have I never commissioned you to make a jewel &h... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...pularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only female head of a national government to date. Sh...
59: ...husband [[Hershey Felder]] on the production of a musical, ''Noah's Ark'' in Los Angeles. In 2002, she lect...
61: ...c Society]]. She was cited for her status as the only woman leader of a North American country to date...
63: ...cy in the world. Its membership is by invitation only and consists of former Heads of State and Govern...
67: ... she was “deeply honoured” to be the only woman to have her picture in the prime ministers... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: Rice was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], the only child of [[Angelena Rice]] and the [[Reverend]] ...
35: ...enver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play ...
37: ...non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm].
93: ...t Palo Alto]] and East [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], and was Vice President of the [[Boys and...
102: ...e is interested in a run for the presidency, but only in [[draft (politics)|draft]] form. [http://www.... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
7: Argerich took the musical world by storm in [[1965]] at the [[International... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...s. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[l...
9: ...al woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful fi...
17: ...enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an inci... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...r to [[Athens]] at age 13. There she received her musical education and became a pupil of the well-known so...
7: ...Her later [[stereo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable hig...
15: ...ional scholarships for young singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overus... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
21: ...the life of gospel legend [[Mahalia Jackson]]) mainly because of her phobia of flying. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
5: ...irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by ...
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969)
65: *''Galgenlider ࠳'' fifteen pieces for mezzo-soprano, percu...
66: *''Galgenlider ࠵'' fourteen pieces for mezzo-soprano, flut... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
34: ...bear strange fruit" gave her a place, not just in musical history, but in American history as well [http://...
36: ...e was swindled out of her earnings and died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her person. At th... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
10: ...rformance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties.
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
28: ...writer. By comparison, although Hendrix released only three official LPs in his lifetime, he was both ...
34: She was arguably one of the only white female singers of the period who could gen... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
3: ... known brother. Like him, Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music. Howe...
9: ...ithout Words''). This style of piano work is commonly thought to have been developed by Felix Mendelss... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ..., the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any ...
17: ...dence, Hammond never recanted his story. It was only when biographer [[Chris Albertson]]'s [[1972]] b...
21: ...ris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely unlikely that a black ambulance driver would have tak... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
7: A former [[teacher]], Crow began her musical career in the [[1980s]] when she moved to [[Los A...
19: ...und Crow singing many of her hit singles with new musical spins and guest appearances by many other musicia...
21: ...g, Crow released ''[[C'mon, C'mon]]''. Musically unlike any of her other records, the project had a mo...
27: [[2004]] saw Crow appear as a [[musical theater]] performer in the [[Cole Porter]] [[biop...
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