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  1. Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
    3: Born in [[Hamburg]], Fanny benefited from the same [[music]]al education and upbringing a...
    11: ... suffered while rehearsing one of her brother's [[oratorio]]s. In recent years, her music has become a littl...
  2. Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Hildegard.jpg|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von...
    6: .... Because she was a tenth child, and a sickly one from birth, at the age of eight Hildegard's parents ...
    8: ...members of her order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
    20: ...manuscript.jpg|thumb|"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's ''Liber divinorum operum''.]]
    22: ...ues" or "Play of the Virtues"), a type of early [[oratorio]] for women's voices, with one male part - that o...
  3. Tromboon (548 bytes)
    3: ...d for in the scores of [[P. D. Q. Bach]] in his [[oratorio]] ''The Seasonings'' as well as the ''Serenude (f...
  4. Shofar (6586 bytes)
    5: ... the voice of a shofar, "exceeding loud," issuing from the thick cloud on [[Mount Sinai]] that made al...
    7: ... praise (Ps. xcviii. 6; comp. ib. xlvii. 5). More frequently it was used as the signal-horn of war, li...
    15: ...[halakha|Jewish law]] women and minors are exempt from the command to hear the shofar-blowing, but the...
    17: ...ce resembling that of a European [[trumpet]] or [[French horn]], but smaller.
    25: Ten appropriate verses from the Bible were recited at each repetition, whic...
  5. Palermo (10618 bytes)
    10: ...h century]], when [[Muslim]] forces from north [[Africa]] invaded, taking Palermo in [[831]] and all o...
    14: ...f the Spanish viceroy, Palermo grew in population from 30,000 in the mid-15th century to 135,000 on th...
    25: ...as an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into a modern crimina...
    27: ...t century, Palermo is still struggling to recover from the devastation of [[World War II]] and the dam...
    44: ...cily had been that the (24 hour) day was measured from the moment of sun-rise, which of course meant t...
  6. Rome (33048 bytes)
    45: ...ulating in Antiquity; the least likely is derived from Greek ''Ρώμη'' meaning brav...
    49: ...rounding hills]] approximately eighteen [[miles]] from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the south side of the...
    52: ...h [[Mediterranean]] people, perhaps from [[North Africa]]. In the [[8th century BC]] these Italic spea...
    57: ... control of [[List of Kings of Rome|seven kings]] from [[753 BC|753]] to [[509 BC]] beginning with the...
    59: ...cline. Around [[500 BC]] Rome gained independence from the Etruscans.
  7. Christmas (35108 bytes)
    2: ...is birth fulfilled Jewish prophecies of a messiah from the house of David. Early Christians focused mo...
    10: ...ethlehem of Judea, the home of the house of David from which Joseph was descended, fulfilled the proph...
    12: ...ey presented Jesus with treasures of "[[gold]], [[frankincense]], and [[myrrh]]". While staying the n...
    14: ...here they could have gotten their gifts of "gold, frankincense, and myrrh". Astronomers and historian...
    19: ...orian calendar|Gregorian]]) date of [[January 7]] from [[1900]] to [[2099]]. The [[Armenian Church]] p...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. Christmas carol (3459 bytes)
    6: ...d. Some carols like 'Personent hodie' and 'Angels from the Realms of Glory' can be traced directly bac...
    12: ...mony of Carols" (for choir and harp), or excerpts from [[Handel]]'s "[[the Messiah|Messiah]]."
    14: ...l]]'s "[[the Messiah|Messiah]]," the "[[Christmas Oratorio]]" by [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]], "Midn...
    16: ...[wassailing]]), in which groups of singers travel from house to house, singing carols, for which they ...

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