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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
23: ...he nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are misleading or verging on fantasy (the works of Grattan...
40: ...st any instruments, from model elephants,to small jazz orchestras. Well known bagads include Bagad Brieg...
47: ...cularly strathspeys, reels, hornpipes, and jigs), slow airs, and more. It dates largely from the last...
53: ...s or regulators; these sets are called somewhat misleadingly "practice sets". In fact, many pipers us... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
86: *[[1930]] - [[Buddy Bolden]], American jazz musician (b. [[1877]])
88: *[[1956]] - [[Art Tatum]], American jazz musician
152: [[sl:4. november]] - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
20: *''[[Jazz (novel)|Jazz]]'' (1992) - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...y|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Gramm...
12: ...he [[Decca Records|Decca]] label in [[1955]], the jazz record company [[Verve Records|Verve]] was create...
14: ... she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
16: ...' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Louis Armstrong]], but they also recorde...
18: ...n [[actor|actress]] and singer in [[Jack Webb]]'s jazz [[film]] ''[[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also app... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...er soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at [[jazz]], [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-hop]], [[g...
6: ...Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Frank...
14: In the early 1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and sh...
18: ...r made her guard her private life even more jealously and she gave no interviews for several years aft... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan...
7: ... of her birth; her father [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson...
16: ...nderson]], did much to solidify her standing as a jazz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday beg...
18: Compared to other jazz singers, Holliday had a rather limited range of j...
20: ...arrier along the way by becoming one of the black jazz singers of that era to perform with white musicia... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ...s that are now highly regarded, though sales were sluggish at the time. ''Move on up a Little Higher'...
5: ... Faith]], and performed at the [[1958]] [[Newport Jazz Festival]] and the inauguration of [[John F. Kenn...
7: She was posthumously inducted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...t|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
8: ...nt [[Mainstream Records]] and recorded an eponymously titled album in [[1967]]. However, the lack of ...
14: ...Tilt Boogie Band]]. The result was the (posthumously released) ''[[Pearl (album)|Pearl]]'' ([[1971]])...
24: ...as significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influenced styles that were common at the time &m...
34: ...y new range of expression for women in the previously male-dominated world of post-[[Beatles]] rock. I... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ...edominantly to [[Rock and roll|rock music]] and [[jazz]], to become one of the most highly respected [[s...
5: ... of song writing. Personal and often self-consciously "poetic", her songs were strengthened by Mitchel...
13: ...ld spend the rest of the decade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hi...
15: ...ay from pop toward the freedom and abstraction of jazz, a wordy double album dominated by the lengthy pa...
19: ...ne terribly well reviewed. Seeming to reject the jazz influence, 1982's ''Wild Things Run Fast'' was an... - Music (16462 bytes)
49: ...of [[improvisation]], material which is spontaneously thought of while performed, ''not'' preconceived...
51: ...ly associated with [[John Cage]] and [[Witold Lutoslawski]]. See: [[precompositional]], [[form (music)...
54: ...ontaneously improvised works like those of [[free jazz]] performers and [[African]] drummers.
108: ...sic: [[Mozart]], [[Stravinsky]], [[serialism]], [[Jazz]], [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[punk rock]], and ...
110: ...n, in the context of the World Music Program at Wesleyan University, was as a term including all possi... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
17: ...es do not include a word for or that would be translated as "music." Inuit and most North American Ind...
36: ...nce]], [[found sound]]s, or [[performance]]. Famously [[John Cage]]'s work [[4'33"]] is rooted in this...
52: ... performed, the silence at the end is quite obviously part of the music. In [[Joseph Haydn]]'s ''[[Sym...
62: ...rovised performances are equally valued. In folk, jazz, and some popular music variation and reinterpret...
73: - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...les to be drilled obliquely, with its bell flared slightly at the end. However, there were only six fi...
20: ..., with even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]]...
30: To finish the reed, first, the tip (previously the center of the strip of cane) is cut, so that...
59: ...nsky]], [[The Rite of Spring]] (opens with a famously unorthodox bassoon solo)
66: ==Jazz and improvised music== - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
35: ...e interchangeable barrels whose lengths vary very slightly. Some performers employ a single barrel wi...
37: ...e right thumb behind the lower joint on what is misleadingly called the ''thumb-rest''.
59: ===Jazz===
60: Clarinets are also commonly found in [[jazz]], especially in its earlier forms such as the Bi...
62: ...ez]] prefered the C soprano, and many New Orleans jazz brass bands have used E flat sopranino. - Bass clarinet (3454 bytes)
10: ...hony [[orchestra]]s and as a solo instrument in [[jazz]]. They almost universally play the bass part (u...
26: ==Bass clarinet in Jazz==
27: ...ile the bass clarinet was seldom heard in early [[jazz]] compositions, a bass clarinet solo by [[Omer Si...
31: [[Eric Dolphy]] was the first major jazz soloist on the instrument, and established much o... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
26: ==Jazz and improvised music==
28: While oboe is rather rare in [[jazz]] and [[free improvisation]], there are a few not...
30: ...g the first and remains, arguably, the preeminent jazz oboist. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
7: ...the Rolling Stones]], [[Jimi Hendrix]]. Prominent jazz musician [[Keith Jarrett]] has even recorded an e...
29: ...baroque period or on baroque recorders. As previously discussed this latter system is correctly termed...
34: ...rinet, and saxophone. The impetus was quite obviously a pedagogical one: it made the transition from r... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
7: A very unusual example of the sarrusophone in [[jazz]] is on the [[1924]] recording by [[Clarence Will... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
3: ...with [[popular music]], [[big band]] music, and [[jazz]], but it was originally intended as both an [[or...
25: ... allowing effects such as note bending, common in jazz. Classical players usually opt for a mouthpiece ...
43: ...ecent decades, beginning first with the work of [[jazz]] saxophonist [[John Coltrane]], and the bass, so...
49: ...jective based upon the intended style (classical, jazz, rock, funk, etc.) and the player's idealized sou...
59: ...ando can also be made controlling the air stream, sliding between the harmonics. Especially in the hig... - Alto saxophone (1789 bytes)
8: ...reat versatility and is used commonly in concert, jazz, funk, blues, pop, and rock music. - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
18: ...ensemble music with koto and samisen, folk music, jazz, modern music.
48: ...ed in western genres of music, including [[smooth jazz]] and rock music, especially after being commonly...
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