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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: ... the Dionysia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poe...
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'...
33: .... The orchestra was the place of the action, the choral performances, and the religious rites. An [[alta... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
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...
54: *''Meditation ?en Bach-Choral "Vor deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit" for cymbalom...
69: *''The Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi'' for cello, chamber choir, and or... - Sackbut (3802 bytes)
1: ... is used to differentiate the historic instrument from its modern counterpart. Increasing interest in...
4: ...f the most important instruments in Baroque [[polychoral]] works, along with the [[cornett|cornetto]] and ...
16: ...[17th Century]] [[Italian music]]. Sackbuts also frequently played courtly [[dance music]].
21: ...com Concerto Palatino], [http://www.lafenice.asso.fr/ La Fenice], [http://www.piffaro.com Piffaro], th... - Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...graphic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
3: '''Africa''' is the [[world]]'s second-largest [[contine...
6: ...onAfrica.png|thumb|World map showing location of Africa]]
8: ...ontinent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding...
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from: - Hathor (11883 bytes)
4: ...was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least [[2700 BC]], during the 2nd dynasty, a...
8: ...entified as Ra's wife, it was said she arose from from Ra's tears, and thus was identified as the ''[[...
26: ...dead in the underworld, and proffered them with refreshments of food, and of drink. She was also somti...
31: ...c, the Queen of the Harp Playing, the Lady of the Choral Dance, the Queen of Wreath Weaving, the Mistress ...
37: ..., and Egypt once again became prosperous. A tale, from the perspective of Lower Egypt, developed aroun... - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ...of [[Euripides]] and [[Plato]]. He is best known from his mention by [[Aristophanes]] (''Thesmophoria...
2: original, not, as usually, borrowed from mythological subjects.
4: ...is intimacy with Aristophanes doubtless saved him from many well-deserved strictures, though in one of...
6: Agathon was a friend of [[Euripides]], accompanying him to the cou...
12: ...and Influence on Civilization'', volume 1, by [[Alfred Bates]]. ([[London]]: [[Historical Publishing C... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
25: ...icknames include "Beantown", "The Hub" (shortened from [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Hol...
27: ...cy]] as well as many suburban communities further from the city, has a population of approximately 5.8...
34: ...r [[Boston, England]], a town in [[Lincolnshire]] from which several prominent colonists originated. E...
63: The [[Charles River]] separates Boston from [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], and [[C...
65: ...s increases dramatically as one goes inland away from the city. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...rly every musician in the [[Europe]]an tradition, from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] to [[Arnold ...
7: ... more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and...
11: ...cles were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to...
13: ...g Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elder b...
22: ...ression made possible by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musici... - Ancient music (3386 bytes)
4: ...s of [[Sumer]]ian writing in [[Mesopotamia]] date from around [[4000 BC]]. So this is when the era of ...
6: ...music, there remains but one meagre scrap: a line from [[Terence]]'s ''[[Hecyra]]'' set to music by hi...
12: ... Mesopotamia]] and is contemporary [[Iraq]]. Some fragments are in [[Pennsylvania]], some in the [[Bri...
14: == Harps from Syria and Egypt ==
16: ...seven strings. True harps are shown in [[mural]]s from the time [[Ramses III]] of [[Egypt]], about [[1... - Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...ition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of [[Dionysus]], ...
9: ... the Dionysia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poe...
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'...
33: .... The orchestra was the place of the action, the choral performances, and the religious rites. An [[alta... - 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. - Opera (25153 bytes)
2: [[Image:GarnierOperaParis.jpg|frame|The foyer of [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Cha...
5: ...are accompanied by a [[musical ensemble]] ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphon...
7: ...ten part of an opera performance, particularly in France.
13: ...ntly performed of the genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed...
20: ...n. A later work by Peri, ''[[Euridice]]'', dating from 1600, is the first opera score to have survived... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ... classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatures.
12: ...]]). The ballets trace his stylistic development: from the ''L'oiseau de feu'', whose style draws larg...
16: [[Image:Stravinsky_picasso.png|frame|Stravinsky and [[Pablo Picasso]] collaborated ...
19: ...arried in [[New York]] where they had gone from [[France]] to escape the war in [[1940]].
21: ...lso able to attract commissions: most of his work from ''The Firebird'' onwards was written for specif...
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