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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]]''.
11: ...trument]]s''' generate a sound when the string is plucked, strummed, slapped, etc. The [[frequency]] ...
17: ... vibrating strings either hammered ([[piano]]) or plucked ([[harpsichord]]), by electronic means ([[sy...
19: ...ist of musical instruments]] or [[List of archaic musical instruments]]. - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...ally, and only amplified electronically - for example an [[electric guitar]]. Usually the instrument w...
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]]''.
12: ...trument]]s''' generate a sound when the string is plucked, strummed, slapped, etc. The [[frequency]] ...
18: ... vibrating strings either hammered ([[piano]]) or plucked ([[harpsichord]]), by electronic means ([[sy...
20: ...ist of musical instruments]] or [[List of archaic musical instruments]]. - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
1: ... 1989, p.3). Music can also be categorised by non-musical criteria such as geographical origin. Such catego...
3: ...ed to "commodify and commercialize an artist's complex personal vision." Other artists feel that it is...
5: ...esent its own style, as well as that of any other musical genre.
13: These definitions are relatively short and simple, referring to further articles as needed.
15: ... also'': [[List of music genres]], [[Genealogy of musical genres]] - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
1: ... score can be constructed (laboriously) from a complete set of parts and vice versa.
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: ...position — indeed the ''only'' surviving complete composition using this notation — is the...
12: ...cal notation of this type is in the ''Musica disciplina'' of [[Aurelian of R��me]], from about [[8...
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ngside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of political stablity in the region, and sometim...
65: The native people of the [[Mayans]] and [[Aztecs]] were conquered ...
69: ...ta Rica has avoided much of the violence that has plagued Central America. Since the late [[19th centu...
109: ...cause the Government had implemented a seven year plan of expansion in the high tech industry. They h...
125: ...m connecting the urban populations of the Central Plateau to the port of [[Limon]] on the Caribbean. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: .... The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes...
16: ...ch is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather, but...
23: ...s. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to have been a player; there are Greek depictions of pipers, and th...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [...
38: ...[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in countries around the world, particularly c... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
3: ... forms to emerge in the world. Greek theatre and plays have had a lasting impact on [[Western world|W...
9: ...34 BC]], a man named [[Thespis]] is credited with playing the role of the main character in a narrativ...
13: ...horus]]). In addition, the subject matter of the plays had expanded so that rather than just Dionysus...
17: ...s]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their plays, along with some [[secondary source]]s such as...
21: ...on Roman comedy, such as the surviving works of [[Plautus]] and [[Terence]]. - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
23: # The area now called the [[North China Plain]]. The ''[[Sanguo Zhi]]'' records the followin... - Clip art (7441 bytes)
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78: ...ling with [[hobby|hobbies]] will publish images explicitly licensed to the magazine purchaser for use ... - Performance (3170 bytes)
1: [[Image:Street accordion player.jpg|thumb|A street musician with accordion in...
2: ...er and audience may become blurred, as in the example of "[[participatory theatre]]" where audience me...
4: Examples of performance [[genre]]s include:
5: * musical genres:
9: ** [[musical]] - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
18: ... show in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limb...
20: ...read support and attention in [[1998]] when he complained that some radio stations were shortening his...
22: ...rty (which he had earlier alienated by breaking a pledge not to raise [[tax]]es). President [[George W...
26: ...oo late in the evening in many markets. (In many places it was aired at 1:30 AM or even later.)
30: ...tted that the changes in his voice were due to complete [[post-lingual hearing impairment|deafness]] i... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
9: ...[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. He performed a short musical concert for the Imperial Family. When the Empress...
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
24: ...en the king told him to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
47: ...rhaul of Canada's social policies in all their complexities could not be done in just 47 days (the tim...
59: ...husband [[Hershey Felder]] on the production of a musical, ''Noah's Ark'' in Los Angeles. In 2002, she lect...
67: ...t minister and as an academic. The unveiling took place amidst protests against [[President of United ...
72: ...her six brief months as Prime Minister, she did implement radical changes to the structure of the Cana... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...h the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when she attended a course on internat...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7...
83: ...ervice with the National Security Council. On the plane trip over, she related comments critical of Pu... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: .... She gave her debut concert at the age of eight, playing a [[piano concerto|concerto]] by [[Wolfgang...
7: ...ver her often exaggerated dynamics and tempi, her playing is characterised by her passionate and uniqu...
9: ...olo performances. As of the [[1980s]] she has not played much solo concerts anymore, instead focusing ...
17: ...tnev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]:... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
9: ...al woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful fi... - 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...
9: ...] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ... to one of her biographers, Nicholas Gage, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was ...
15: ...ung singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overuse of [[quaaludes]]. Devet... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
21: ...] when she was unable to star in the [[Broadway]] musical "Sing, Mahalia, Sing," (based on the life of gosp...
53: *[[1970]] ''[[Don't Play That Song]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ...irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by ...
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie...
20: ...dy Day with the white gardenia in her hair. She explained the sense of overpowering drama that feature...
26: ...anis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[auto...
28: .... She finally divorced Monroe in [[1957]] as she split with Guy. That [[March 28]], Billie married Lo...
30: ...Sound of Jazz]] program is memorable for her interplay with dear friend [[Lester Young]]; both were le... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...e:Janis Joplin-In Concert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live ...
2: ...sional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for ...
4: ... in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and ...
6: ...ovement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues h...
10: ...rformance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties. - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
3: ... known brother. Like him, Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music. Howe...
5: ...her composing. Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in...
7: ... public debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
11: ...ndelssohn-Hensel died in [[Berlin]] in 1847 of complications of a [[stroke]] suffered while rehearsing... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ..., the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any ...
11: ... an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie b...
17: ...ax's perpetuation of the myth is all the more inexplicable when one considers a letter received by his...
19: ...eath without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit her. And...
25: A more recent play featuring 14 of the songs Smith made famous, ''... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
7: A former [[teacher]], Crow began her musical career in the [[1980s]] when she moved to [[Los A...
9: ...d [[popular music|pop]] sound of the record and implored the label to allow her to start anew; they ag...
19: ...und Crow singing many of her hit singles with new musical spins and guest appearances by many other musicia...
21: ...some touring, Crow released ''[[C'mon, C'mon]]''. Musically unlike any of her other records, the project ha...
23: ... Morning America]]'' and posting an open letter explaining her opposition on her website. [http://www....
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