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- Glockenspiel (1945 bytes)
2: ...s tuned bars laid out in a fashion resembling a [[piano keyboard]].
8: ... played by a [[celesta]] nowadays). A more modern day piece to use the glockenspiel is the 1977 [[Brot... - Marimba (4188 bytes)
2: ...cal tones. The keys are arranged as those of a [[piano]], with the accidentals raised vertically and ove...
13: ...]]; [[gyil]] duets are the traditional music of [[Dagara]] funerals in [[Ghana]]. - Rhodes piano (5144 bytes)
1: A '''Rhodes piano''' is a [[musical instrument]]. Its distinctive ...
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...
15: ...s modifications done by a company called "Dyno My Piano" became popular: it made the sound brighter, hard...
19: ... 1960s and 1970s, and many of its signature songs date from this period: [[The Doors]] "Riders On The ... - Triangle (instrument) (2713 bytes)
2: ...ightly by varying the area struck and more subtle damping.
6: Although the instrument is nowadays generally in the form of an equilateral triangl...
8: ...e triangle really prominent was [[Franz Liszt]]'s Piano Concerto No. 1, where it is used as a solo instru... - Vibraphone (4143 bytes)
4: ... of the [[wood]]en bars on the xylophone. The standard modern instrument has a range of three [[octave...
8: ...ll sound for several seconds, so frequent rapid pedalling is common when playing a vibraphone.
16: ...uch as [[Gary Burton]], [[Victor Feldman]], and [[Dave Samuels]], among others, use four mallets and t...
18: .... To do this, the vibist holds the pedal down and dampens the previous note in a melody with the head ...
29: *Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling; by David Friedman; [[Berklee Press Publications]]; 1973... - Washboard (2078 bytes)
1: ...dPiano.JPG|thumb|200px|A washboard (left) and a [[piano]] player]] - Film (18911 bytes)
4: ..., ''photoplays'', ''picture shows'', ''flicks'' — and most commonly ''movies''. Academics and t...
6: ...levance is what causes the perception of motion — a psychological effect identified as [[beta mo...
14: ...arefully designed to achieve the desired effect — and the underlying principle became the basis ...
18: ...udience in silence, theater owners would hire a [[piano|pianist]] or [[organ (music)|organist]] or a full...
22: ...ut as color processes improved and became as affordable as [[black-and-white]] film, more and more mov... - Puppet (11452 bytes)
1: ...Television|TV]]) or [[electronics|electronic]] guidance (such as a [[radio]] or [[infrared]] remote co...
5: ...med (for example a coin-operated automata-show or piano-roll sideshow figure). The puppet can interact wi...
8: The use of puppets dates back thousands of years. The first may have b...
10: ...ied with it. It became necessary, then, for every day needs, for all conditions and for all places, th...
12: ...ssed down to posterity simply because he came one day to [[Thebes (Greece)|Thebes]] wearing around his... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...sh; [[July 28]], [[1750]] <small>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>){{an|birthanddeath}} was a Germ...
19: ...en]]. Some of Bach's earliest extant compositions date to this period (including, according to some sc...
22: ...ble by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musicians when their ins...
24: ...otables as [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]]. Still today, students of nearly every instrument encounter B...
28: ...for Solo Violin'', and the ''Orchestral Suites'', date from this period. - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
17: ...composed in the late 20th century through present day
20: ...Some authorities subdivide the periods further by date or style. However, it should be noted that thes...
41: ... sometimes improvised the [[cadenza]]s to their [[piano concerto]]s--but tended to write out the cadenzas...
51: ...sidered by many a serious composer) or Billie Holiday's 'facile'." (light?) (Middleton, 1990)
59: ...ructural layers, and thus much depth. However, Lerdahl's theories explicitly exclude "associational" d... - Percussion instruments (2780 bytes)
7: The [[piano]], [[timpani]], [[xylophone]], [[marimba]], [[vib...
8: ...requirements. [[Gong]]s can be tuned or untuned – the most familiar type of gong in the west, th... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
28: ... 1980s, led by artists like [[Sandi Patti]] and [[Dallas Holm]], but it had largely been replaced by p...
35: ... closely by the [[trumpet]]. The [[trombone]], [[piano]], [[double bass]], [[guitar]] and [[drum kit|dru...
39: The art form today is a widely varied one, using influences from al...
41: ...nce on [[Rhythm and blues]], and therefore a secondary influence on most later genres of popular music...
57: ...ic]] is usually used to refer to [[honky tonk]] today. Emerging in the [[1930s]] in the [[United State... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: ...o [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in accordance with the [[Anno Domini]]/[[Common Era]] number...
6: ...aming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of earlier centuries. This dream turned ...
18: ...01-1714 |publisher=Historyofwar.org |date= |accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref>
19: ...'' and the ''The Norwich Post'' becomes the first daily newspapers in England.
25: ...publisher=Historic-uk.com |date=2007-05-03 |accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref> - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
9: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
21: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]] - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ...r composers and his works are frequently played today.
7: ...rtl Mozart]]. He was [[baptism|baptized]] on the day after his birth at [[St. Rupert's Cathedral]] as...
11: ...m his father, including instruction in both the [[piano]] and [[violin]]. Musically, he developed very ra...
13: ...ther on Leopold's tours. Mozart wrote a number of piano pieces, in particular [[Duet (music)|duets]] and ...
19: ... the Italian journey, which is now an almost legendary tale, occurred when he heard [[Gregorio Allegri... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...s oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatures.
12: ...sed three major works for the [[Ballets Russes]]—''L'oiseau de feu'', ''[[Petrushka]]'' ([[1911]...
17: ...ounts of his time and expenditure to his sons and daughters. He was still young when he married his c...
25: ...essfully writing music for films. Stravinsky had adapted to life in [[France]], but moving to America ...
43: ...lude: ''Renard'' ([[1916]]), ''[[L'histoire du soldat]] (A Soldier's Tale)'' ([[1918]]), and ''Les no...
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