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- Rhodes piano (5144 bytes)
1: A '''Rhodes piano''' is a [[musical instrument]]. Its distinctive ...
3: ...ight|thumb|Rhodes Electric Stage Piano Mark II 73 note]]
7: ...e [[tuning fork]]-like constructions to sound the note.
11: ...to sound the appropriate note. The actual sounded note is too soft to be practical, so each tine vibra...
13: The sound produced has a bell-like character not unlike a celesta or [[glockenspiel]]. Because th...
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- Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United Stat...
29: ...[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in ...
34: ...olumbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, who were in ...
37: ...s non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm]. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
5: ...Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appr...
7: ...[[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
9: ...Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get hi...
11: ...t of proper wallpaper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood s...
15: ...amily friend, she came across [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamiliar to her at the time, w... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
5: ...n two major piano competitions in Geneva and Bolzano within a few weeks, and her career as a professio...
7: ...]. A few years later she recorded Chopin's Sonata no. 3, Polonaise, op. 53, and other short works. He...
9: ...Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]. From [[1969]] to [[1973]], Argerich was mar...
17: ...iev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: Ma Mere L'Oye'' ([[Grammy Awards of 2...
20: ...Nos. 1 & 3/[[B鬡 Bartart: Piano Concerto No. 3'' ([[Grammy Awards of 2000|2000]]) - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever...
6: ...n to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... notable covers of songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simo...
14: ...1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely s... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduating in 1954...
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s championing o...
15: ...ife. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of sp...
18: * Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...]] and amateur [[composer]]. She is perhaps best known as the sister of [[Felix Mendelssohn]], but her...
3: ...music]]al education and upbringing as her better known brother. Like him, Fanny showed prodigious musi...
7: ... 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
9: ...eloped by Felix Mendelssohn, though many scholars nowadays believe it was actually Fanny who first wor... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ...da|CC]]''' (born '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|F...
5: ...que [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distinctive rhythmic,...
7: ... other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...ews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], hav... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...r efforts that his compositions became generally known in Europe. [[Johannes Brahms]], at age twenty...
9: ... In [[1878]] she was appointed teacher of the piano at the [[Hoch Conservatorium]] at [[Frankfurt am ...
11: ...ngs and of some charming music, mainly for the piano, and the authoritative editor of her husband's wo...
14: ...Joachim who performed them for King George V of Hanover, Germany who declared them a "marvelous, heave... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: ... and [[poet]]. She was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] and raised in [[New Jersey]], the daughter of...
4: ...tributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini", and "Sho...
6: ... Dee Daugherty ([[drums]]) and Richard Sohl ([[piano]]). Financed by money from Smith's friend and for...
13: ... less successful, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay.
15: ...lbum ''[[Dream Of Life]]'' in [[1988]], the most known song from which was her semi-[[revolution]]ary ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...sically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that ...
7: ...y the time she reached high school, she was well known in the DC area. During her years at [[Richard M...
10: ...commercial (for which role she beat out a then-unknown [[Sarah Jessica Parker]]). After playing a bar ...
13: ...e rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worke...
16: ...ich featured the vocal contribution of [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. The [[Australia]]n ed... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ... illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Ricc...
7: ... in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but she had an early brush with [...
13: ...r category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.
15: ...r best-known films of this period are [[Peter Ustinov]]'s ''[[Lady L]]'' with [[Paul Newman]], [[Charl...
23: In [[1991]], Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world c... - Ivory (4783 bytes)
1: ...t was used for [[billiards|billiard]] balls, [[piano]] keys, buttons and ornamental items. The word "i...
5: ...h or tusks of commercial interest which is large enough to be carved or [[scrimshaw]]ed.
13: ...h an organic matrix of collagenous proteins. The inorganic component of dentine consists of dahllite. ...
15: ...welry, flatware handles, furniture inlays, and piano keys. Additionally, [[warthog]] tusks, and teeth ...
19: ...ade is necessary—both to stimulate their economies and reduce elephant populations which are all... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ... to be made until the 1840s, and was revived by Arnold Dolmetsch at the end of the 19th century. From ...
5: ...orce of the tangent against the string, which is known as ''[[bebung]]'', and can be used to give a fo...
7: ...d to each string. They are usually chosen so that notes which are rarely heard together (such as C and...
9: ...[etude]]s labelled ''organ'' by the composers and now regarded as organ repertoire were in fact more a...
11: ...ch of the music written for [[harpsichord]], [[piano]], and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period ci... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
6: ...usic as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but something which may...
8: ...drivium]] - [[arithmetic]]s, [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was spl...
17: ...ersus improvised forms (''kantun''), European and nonMapuche music (''kantun winka''), ceremonial song...
19: ...n vocal music. Some languages in West Africa have no term for music but the speakers do have the conce...
21: ...s of "musicness"; Koran chanting and [[Adhan]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song,... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...oncert band, and chamber music literature. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, var...
6: ... of the dulcian family of varying size, from soprano down to bass ranges. The early dulcian had many s...
10: ... both in manufacturing techniques and acoustical knowledge made possible great improvements in the pla...
16: ...se; metal bassoons were made in the past but have not been in production by any major manufacturer sin...
20: ...e to play and affects the intonation of the lower notes, it is rarely called for. The Quintet for Wind... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...t'' meaning ''little'' to the Italian word ''clarino'' meaning ''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets...
11: ... registers: the chalumeau (low), clarion or clarino (middle), and altissimo (high). Of all the wind i...
15: ...ich is an octave above high C. This last range of notes is generally only used rarely, to achieve part...
17: <nowiki>*</nowiki>Kennan, Kent and Grantham, Donald, 1990. ''Th...
22: ... the flute designer [[Theobald Boehm]], but it is not the same as the [[Boehm System]] used on flutes.... - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
1: ...ique is similar to its smaller cousin, with a few notable differences:
6: ...lume required in playing, and the instrument does not respond as quickly.
8: ...ment comes in one piece (plus [[bocal]]); it does not disassemble.
11: ...lmost a clatter in the extreme low range, this is nothing more than a variance of tone quality which c...
16: ...d ''[[Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel)|Piano Concerto for the Left Hand]]''. - Musical instrument (3823 bytes)
1: [[Image:TN_33-notes-music.jpg|60px|left|]] A '''musical instrument...
3: ...ic study of musical instruments is called ''[[organology]]''.
11: ...quency]] of the wave generated (and therefore the note produced) usually depends on the length of the ...
17: ...in some other way. Sometimes, instruments that do not usually have a keyboard, such as the [[glockensp...
25: [[Image:TN_33-notes-music.jpg|40px|left|]]*[[Extended technique]] - Tenor horn (3923 bytes)
1: ...bles. In the [[US]] and [[Germany]] the name '''tenor horn''' is identical with [[baritone horn]].
5: ..., and are usually taken by the solo horns. Most Tenor Horns are pitched in Eb and are transposing inst...
9: ...low tone is most evident in this register and the notes at the bottom of its range sound less mellow.
13: ... high Eb (untransposed) in ascending order. These notes are part of the horn's harmonic series.
15: ...ng a certain combination of these valves, all the notes in the chromatic series can be played; for exa... - Trombone (15819 bytes)
9: ...of common variations on trombone construction are noted below.
12: ...e was called the [[Sackbut]] in English. This was not a distinct instrument from the trombone, but rat...
18: ... its beginnings in the [[Romantic music#Brief Chronology of Musical Romanticism|Romantic era]], and th...
22: === Tenor trombone ===
23: [[image:trombone.750pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Tenor trombone]]
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