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  • and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music bands. They are played by ... There are many distinct types of trumpet, with the most common being ...
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  • Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...
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  • , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ... The theatre is named after Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar ...
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  • The harmonica's first large-scale success came at the hands of ... The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ...
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  • [[Image:Chiefs wife.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|Nuer woman, second wife ... primarily in southern Sudan along the banks of the Nile River, as well as ...
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  • the style referred to as Impressionist music, a term which he dismissed ... Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ...
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  • ) is one of the most diversified companies in Japan, offering a wide ... Starting in the 1970s, Yamaha developed a wide range of electronic ...
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  • that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter ... sense by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an ...
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  • The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra ... The aim of the Académie Royale de Danse was to reestablish the perfection ...
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  • actor, singer, and comedian. In many of his movies, as well as on stage ... immigrants from the Ukraine, Kaye became one of the world's best-known ...
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  • constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... Human history and archaeology show that a basic urge to express emotion ...
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  • singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter ... a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing ...
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  • Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...
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  • Penniman's legacy rests on a string of groundbreaking hit singles ... Little Richard's early work was a mix of boogie-woogie, rhythm ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • an American blues singer-songwriter, many of whose songs became classics ... Walter. He also influenced a generation of younger musicians who later ...
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  • Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological birds ... Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ...
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  • Duke Ellington, Basie assembled a group of premiere musicians and through ... band. Basie brought to perfection the union of opposites characteristic of ...
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  • to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound ... speech and artistic expression through music. Our ability to hear sounds ...
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  • the fourteenth century and mainly comprised of non-Muslim boys often captured ... major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat ...
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