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- the "cocktail party effect" which is the human ability to follow ... Cherry is best known for his work on the "cocktail party effect ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- vocals gave the group a distinctive sound that won them many fans. ... After experimenting with a more commercial sound, the group broke ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- The ear is the sense organ in vertebrates that detects sound and also ... portion. In most animals, the visible ear is a flap of tissue that is also ...23 KB (3,869 words) - 17:32, 12 February 2024
- The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the ... A similar instrument, the 'setar', is used to this day in Iran and ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... the key signature, the establishment of key is brought about via functional ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel ... using the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is ... or chromatic. The arrangement of the bars is generally from low (longer ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- 1950s version. Another well known Tubb hit is "Waltz Across Texas" ... Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He is buried in Nashville's ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Metalogic is a study of formal languages of logic from both syntactic ... most important) examples of formal languages is the language of propositional ...14 KB (2,296 words) - 16:20, 9 November 2022
- the inventor of the term "organized sound," a phrase meaning that ... was extremely antagonistic, developing into what could fairly be called a firm ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals ... The word cymbal is derived from the Latin cymbalum, "Cymbalum ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- :This article is about speed and velocity in Physics. [[Image:Virgin ... The speed of an object is the rate of motion of the object, or the ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- Tettigoniidae is a major family of "long-horned grasshoppers ... However, significant crop damage generally is rare because of low population ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- his research on the psychology of music and sound. He founded the Berlin School ... Wurzburg. There he started his research on sound and perception, publishing ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- —Heb: שופר) is a horn that is used as a musical instrument for ... The method of playing the shofar is similar to that of bugle, with ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- A meteoroid is a small body of debris in the Solar System, roughly ... amateur organization that studies meteors) is, "A solid object moving ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- The octave is the span or intervallic space between one tone and another ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- same circle drawn on the line translated to is/his. However, there was a more ... paper and when a word's first vowel is a "first position" ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s ... that were a key part of the "disco sound." Films such as Saturday ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- of literary Classicism, but his best verse is full of antitheses and conflicting ... Derzhavin is best remembered for his odes dedicated to the empress ...6 KB (907 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family ... The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "long ... quot; although this designation often is limited to members of the family ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- rhythmic accompanist. His career is forever linked to that of legendary ... Like all jazz masters, he had his unique sound. Compared to that of later ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- ), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system (phonetic ... has led to a general sense that the system is non-intuitive for non-specialists ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- One major notion that has been considered in modal logics is metaphysical ... alethic modal logic, the one between “It is necessary that p” and “It ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves ... takes the form of krimanchuli technique, and is used as a top part in three/four ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family that dates ... A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across the top ...19 KB (2,947 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument ... String instruments produce sound from one or more vibrating strings ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- Jazz, was a foremost jazz trumpet player. He is considered a historical figure ... of the great stylists of that instrument. It is generally acknowledged that ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... technically demanding. Like jazz, bluegrass is normally played with each melody ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- are professional but unremarkable and sound dated. Even before Louis ... By the mid to late 1920s, Henderson had fully created his sound – ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- contradicted, common sense. Today the term is usually used for something ... the contradiction and the puzzling result is not really a contradiction ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician ... Session musicians can often enrich the sound of a song, such as in ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- his band, the Buckaroos, Owens pioneered what has come to be called the ... A consummate bandleader, Owens pioneered a unique and fresh sound ...12 KB (1,785 words) - 19:09, 17 February 2022
- An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert ... and contemporary country. The instrument is also used in a range of other ...20 KB (2,960 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater ... include bay (as in Chesapeake Bay), sound (as in Puget Sound), or inlet ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 04:23, 22 March 2024
- Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating ... rotation, oscillations, or waves, frequency is defined as a number of cycles ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- violin techniques and performance skills. He is also known as the creator of ... the current-day province of Ravenna. Little is known about his early life ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American ... the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is often acclaimed as the most ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- country music style known as the Nashville Sound, which expanded country music ... fans. This became known as the Nashville Sound. Atkins used Elvis Presley ...16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that is ... soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical ... but the sound it produces is an octave higher. This has given rise ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:24, 26 December 2023
- his writing students to bring the sound of the human voice to their craft. ... a great deal for his enduring popularity. It is easy to mistake Frost's ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- female "blue-eyed soul" sound. From 1963 to 1970, Springfield ... of artists on the TV channel VH1 (2007). She is an inductee of the Rock and ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- medical innovator, and humanitarian. He is most famous for his work in ... As a youth, Norman Bethune attended Owen Sound Collegiate Institute ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- Paul was one of the first to experiment with improving the sound of ... body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and lack of sustain, as ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 22:00, 25 October 2022
- The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially ... Not only is the bugle a simple instrument, but as a signal device ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Fox is the general term applied to any of small to medium-sized canids ... By far the most common species of fox is the red fox (Vulpes vulpes ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- A fjord (or fiord) is a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea bordered ... the west coast of North America from Puget Sound to Alaska, the west coast ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- some of the earliest motion pictures with sound, and the system he devised ... mass media helped shape it into the force it is today. Unfortunately, his life ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 18:59, 25 October 2022
- The dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument of two main varieties ... The word dulcimer is Graeco-Roman, meaning "sweet song," ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices ... 200 tons). The first electronic instrument is often viewed to be the Theremin ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- voice and his honky tonk style made his sound stand out in a genre increasingly ... with Holly had been pivotal: "Mainly what I learned from Buddy," ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 23:21, 3 May 2023
- By Me," co-written by Ben E. King, is considered a classic R & ... went on to create the famous "Wall of Sound" as an independent producer ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- on Yonder Wall," "The Sky Is Crying," "Standing ... a lead singer in August of that year with what became his signature song ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 17:34, 13 February 2024
- before Giovanni's birth. While not much is known about Giovanni's ... music. All of his secular vocal music is relatively early; late in his ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 14:08, 22 May 2024
- The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is an alto string ... #039; sets it apart: its rich sonority is more full-bodied than the violin ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is ... Denoted by the symbol R, the value of the gas constant is: ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... prehistoric times. Though the human voice is likely to have been the first ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more ... Because of the ease of carrying and the direction of sound, it is ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- In general, an amplifier (or simply amp) is a device that changes ... signal in photons to a DC signal in amperes) is called a transducer or sensor ...18 KB (2,580 words) - 09:26, 18 June 2021
- Caelifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "short ... one of the chief delights of grasshoppers is the special wonder they add ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Georgian Bay (French: baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron ... The area is well–known as "Cottage Country" for the many ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 16:41, 21 May 2024
- author, the focus of its study. The result is an appreciation for the creative ... Linguistic Circle in Moscow. Therefore, it is more precise to refer to the ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into ... The horn, as a member of the brass instrumental family, is a powerful ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement ... whether it was the one Ibn Farnas used, nor what happened to it. ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... Hard rock is strongly influenced by blues music; the most frequently ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s. She is ... style became known as “The Nashville Sound," also associated with ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 16:47, 21 November 2022
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin ... from prior to the 1970s. Today, salsa is performed throughout Latin ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with studying ... history. One of the most notable of these is the story of Icarus and Daedalus. ...26 KB (3,914 words) - 06:23, 15 June 2023
- to score more than 2,000 points, and is now one of only four Shocker ... in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988 and is currently 30th on the all time ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- with his energetic, exciting new sound. By this point, Holly and Montgomery ... R&B charts by September). To this day it is arguably his signature song ...11 KB (1,803 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... While the letter is addressed from Paul, many scholars today doubt ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script is derived from the Later ... Gurmukhī is a system of writing called an abugida, where each consonant ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher. He is the namesake for the "Mach ... Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Propositional calculus or Sentential calculus is a calculus that represents ... :If Jack is innocent, then Jack has an alibi and Jack is not a murderer. ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre ... Grunge music is generally characterized by "dirty" guitar ...30 KB (4,642 words) - 10:14, 25 February 2023
- A smoke detector or smoke alarm is a device that detects smoke and ... to cause all detectors in an area to sound an alarm if one is triggered ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally ... One of the characteristics most associated with orthopterans is the ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- which literally means "absence") is a closed curve on a plane, ... An ellipse is a type of conic section. If a conical surface is cut ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... a long line of white performers to achieve what some perceive as undue fame ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... of 1750-1820, was very airy and light in sound as compared to orchestral ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- quot;Make The World Go Away" and "What's He Doing In My World ... that would come to be known as the Nashville sound. ==Second career== ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- trends were emerging which were to define what was later called the Baroque ... Hassler's sacred music is both for the Roman Catholic church ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- A harmonica is a free reed wind instrument which has roots that may ... The harmonica is used in blues and American folk music, jazz, classical ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... such bands early in his career. This style is sometimes called "Dixie ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- 9, 1953) was an Anglo-Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the ... Drive; And death shall have no dominion is one of the best known works ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the ... percent of adults complain of tinnitus that is prolonged or present much of ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- event. As "the Dead" and its sound matured over 30 years of ... allowing the owner to bring in personal sound recording equipment. Their ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 19:25, 24 May 2024
- A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments ... A musician who plays the harpsichord is called a harpsichordist. ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- parts for chewing. The term grasshopper is an imprecisely defined name ... . The grasshoppers' characteristic sound production, which can serve ...20 KB (2,942 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains ... An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily ...37 KB (5,471 words) - 15:52, 11 March 2024
- ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ... from the inner tube of a bamboo or reed, is made taut and glued over this ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- increasingly clear just how important Millay is for the history of early twentieth ... of Robert Frost or Thomas Hardy; her poetry is always formal, masterfully ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- create a distinctive, pleasant, and melodic sound. Bagpipes have been around ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- INRI is an acronym of the Latin phrase IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM ... A Christogram is a monogram or combination of letters which forms ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists ... music from which it most directly evolved is the complexity of funk rhythms ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... Inference is studied within several different fields. * Human inference ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- Straits of Magellan or the Magellan Strait) is a channel at the southern tip ... The strait is approximately 600|km|sp=us long, and ranges from ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or mic, is a device ... thin membrane that vibrates in response to sound pressure. This mechanical ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... U.S. Red Scare of the early 1950s. Their sound, and their broad repertoire ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- The Elizabeth Tower, formerly known as the Clock Tower, is the world ... for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful." ...22 KB (3,639 words) - 22:14, 23 November 2023
- SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) — or sonar — is a technique ... in air for robot navigation. SODAR—which is an upward-looking, in-air sonar—is ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich ... adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... The Strait of Georgia is a strait between Vancouver Island and the ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- quot; in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any ... kumi-daiko (組太鼓) whose repertory is based on folk and festival ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- A grid illusion is any kind of grid that deceives a person's ... propose hypotheses about how perception is accomplished. Illusions can ...5 KB (754 words) - 12:27, 24 January 2023
- anticipation of modern developments, Basie is regarded as one of jazz music’s ... Basie is known for his inimitable statements on the piano, but it ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument ... the didgeridoo's exact age, though it is commonly claimed to be the ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ... , producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- Electric power is defined as the rate at which electrical energy is ... storage such as batteries. The SI unit of power is the watt. ...5 KB (743 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- the Latin visio, meaning "sight") is a telecommunication system ... With the growth and influence of the television industry, it is not ...27 KB (3,983 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape ... recorders--VCRs) and video cameras. Tape is a linear method of storing ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media ... formatted and structured video content is a DVD-Video. DVDs with properly ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- paper with sales of over one million, and is credited with winning ninety ... become a well circulated paper. Today, it is merged under the name Chattanooga ...10 KB (1,585 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- for film, and a person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. ... the awards. Audience size for the telecast is generally well below that of ...32 KB (4,813 words) - 19:02, 14 May 2023
- as one of the Monroe Brothers. Bluegrass is notable for the lightning-fast ... became a characteristic of the bluegrass sound. Monroe learned guitar from ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name ... of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- Mengelberg is most noted for his work as the principal conductor of ... of interpretation as a conductor. He is considered to have formed a ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- circuits to solve practical problems is an integral technique in the ... The study of new semiconductor devices and surrounding technology ...15 KB (2,062 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2024
- beginning in 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes," ... Bill Haley, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Perkins is considered one of the early ...15 KB (2,405 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- discovered--to get the "right" sound. There, he worked with artists ... was a big hit with country fans eager for a sound with more edge than Nashville ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:52, 8 January 2024
- confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager later ... and Mackay Trophy (1947), for breaking the sound barrier for the first time ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- quot;) and often shortened to plane, is a heavier-than-air craft in ... intended to fold when on the ground. This is usually to facilitate storage ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- The llama is a domesticated, gregarious, South American ungulate, ... " where the entire foot is on the ground, as in humans ...18 KB (2,774 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. This is the most prestigious awards ... prize in the "Open" category, and is considered a winner in the ...31 KB (4,353 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that ... uniform circular motion at a constant speed is also said to undergo acceleration ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... composing, music theory, and orchestration is particularly important. The ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Karl Ritter von Frisch (Note: Ritter is a title, translated approximately ... minnows had an area on the forehead that is filled with sensory nerve cells ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 10:47, 28 February 2023
- :This article is about the astronomical term. [[Image:Solar eclips ... A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... Salzburg is only two hours from Munich and one hour from Vienna by ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- Rattlesnake is the common name for any of the venomous snakes comprising ... to as vipers, although the term viperids is more specific and distinguishes ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- the consequent of the conditional statement is inferred: e.g. from “If John ... Modus Ponens (Latin: mode that affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder ... not all microbats feed on insects, there is one genus of megabats that ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- Brenda Lee (born December 11, 1944) is an American country-pop singer ... after recording Dynamite, as the explosive sound pouring out of her diminutive ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- Alpaca is the common name for a domesticated, gregarious, high-altitude ... Alpaca fiber is lustrous, soft, and silky, and provided in enough ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 08:21, 23 July 2023
- (“Poetry Contest at Mimosusu River”) is a poetic masterpiece in which ... Yoshino, Ise, and many other places, but he is best known for his many long ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- Music librarianship is the specialized area of librarianship that ... digital music collections and the access is limited to their students. ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... Chanting the name of God is a spiritual activity that is commonly ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Later, with Ben E. King's yearning sound on lead tenor, the group ... as bass, and Walter Adams on guitar. This is the group which produced the ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- but advances by the 1930s brought superior sound fidelity than earlier efforts ... ” Lomax once remarked, “was… to put sound technology at the disposal ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- a great many modes of music together. It is an instrument ideally suited ... The word piano is a short form of the word "pianoforte," ...35 KB (5,515 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- ) is the goddess of learning, knowledge, and the arts including music ... In modern Hinduism, Sarasvati is one of the three goddesses (along ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by ... The view of most scholars (see organology) is that the term "brass ...34 KB (4,980 words) - 16:54, 26 March 2022
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... from hip hop. The broad appeal of pop music is seen to distinguish it from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact ... additional sensory information, such as sound. Some advanced, haptic systems ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than ... The upper frequency limit in humans (approximately 20 kHz) is caused ...27 KB (3,908 words) - 11:29, 18 April 2023
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... forms of media within which to decipher what is true and what is not. Given ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- was granted the regeneration patent in what many now believe was a misunderstanding ... the amplitude of a radio wave to create sound, Armstrong's method ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- included "Hip Hug-Her," "Time is Tight," and an instrumental ... As originators of the unique Stax sound with its raw, edgy R & ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 19:23, 20 November 2023
- In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit ... There are differing views as to exactly what phonemes are and how ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments ... voice on which harmonic triadic harmony is based. Hence, in orchestral ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
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- Aquamarine (Lat. aqua marina, "water of the sea") is a gemstone ... yellow beryl, such as occurs in Brazil, is sometimes called aquamarine ...5 KB (716 words) - 15:58, 11 August 2023
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- he was eight years old. But at age nine, he is said to have made improvements ... in the practical application of science is evident from his words spoken ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- Lights, Big City," "Baby What You Want Me To Do," and ... However, unlike some of them, did not hold is liquor well. He became notorious ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 13:23, 1 August 2022
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- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... chords occur when multiple notes sound simultaneously; however, ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- Very little concrete information is known about the Ajivikas since ... was another leader of the Ajivikas. Gosala is believed to have been a friend ...6 KB (943 words) - 05:13, 30 April 2021
- who, with Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, is considered one of the greatest ... Young and Holiday would collaborate in what many consider some of jazz ...15 KB (2,388 words) - 17:35, 31 October 2023
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- by enlisting in the US Army and forming what became known as the American ... later studied with Joseph Schillinger, who is credited with helping Miller ...15 KB (2,226 words) - 17:37, 23 May 2024
- Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely ... festive Carnival parades. The samba style is a smooth, duple-metered flow ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 11:45, 6 September 2022
- During his courtship, Stokes is said to have written Mary Susannah ... from a lack of mathematical skills and is said to have often consulted ...20 KB (3,027 words) - 15:59, 20 May 2024
- form of a single moral lesson. Their power is that the lessons are universal ... 1697 French collection by Charles Perrault is the most famous, though there ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical ... The guitar's presence in today's popular music scene is ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- Perhaps the most enduring aspect of Koussevitsky's musical legacy ... In 1922, Koussevitzky commissioned what has come to be known as one ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- Kreisler produced a characteristic sound, which was immediately recognizable ... Elgar had dedicated to Kreisler. The work is often considered the greatest ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Literacy is usually defined as the ability to read and write, or the ... of a region's human capital. This is because literate people can ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- The Avons, and Byrd turned the group's sound towards secular rhythm and ... to clearly showcase the beginnings of what today is considered the "James ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic ... The word tile is derived from the French word tuile, which is, in ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
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- exponents and the first theory that sound and light are a transfer ... Normandy, in the Diocese of Bayeux. Nothing is known about his family except ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- characterized by a broad, wide, vibrato, a sound that was both firm and soft ... the Henderson band. Particularly remarkable is a set of 1933 recordings with ...5 KB (863 words) - 03:26, 29 July 2022
- remarked that depredation was for him what daffodils were for Wordsworth ... novelist Thomas Hardy. Like Hardy, Larkin is well known in his poetry for ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- of fish, and one in every 20 vertebrates, is a catfish. ... catfish families have prominent barbels; what defines a fish as being in ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 13 January 2023
- Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity ... the right hand. A composition in this style is called a "rag". A ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- a contemporary object, situation, or event is acquired by paranormal means ... learned by other means that their loved one is deceased. While anecdotal accounts ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 07:21, 14 January 2023
- Kyudo (弓道) (The "Way of the Bow") is the Japanese art ... It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners ...13 KB (2,130 words) - 04:14, 6 October 2022
- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana ... represent ye, yi or wu sounds. However, ye is believed to have existed as ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- statecraft that arose in India, which is epitomized by the treatise ... I.W. Mabbett concur that the Arthaśāstra is a composition from no earlier ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- as a scientific discipline. Turnbull is also known for his musical ... trips to Africa to see the Pygmies in what was previously the Belgian ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- #039;s country and western music category, is a blend of popular musical ... However, country music is actually a catch-all category that embraces ...40 KB (5,977 words) - 08:35, 10 January 2024
- Howler monkey is the common name for the tropical, arboreal New World ... The brown howler monkey (Alouatta guariba) is classified as Vulnerable, while ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 19:31, 7 February 2024
- His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among ... Buster Keaton was well beyond infancy. It is more likely that the nickname ...28 KB (4,366 words) - 18:53, 22 November 2023
- organs, although the exact nature of what they sense and how they sense ... three pairs of jointed legs; an abdomen that is divided into 11 segments and ...6 KB (965 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... the Blues, Old Man." Another example is the riff from Charlie Parker ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... In the history of rock music, psychedelic rock is a bridge from early ...40 KB (6,210 words) - 08:25, 2 December 2022
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... Heavy metal is typically characterized by a guitar-and-drum-dominated ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, consisting of string, brass ... Klaus George Roy, when he wrote: "What more miraculous creation of ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- The shakuhachi (尺八) is a Japanese end-blown flute, which is held ... (本曲, "original pieces") is a repertoire of the pieces ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- Garbo is regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie ... dialog (it used a soundtrack with music and sound effects only). ...20 KB (3,159 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2022
- ], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of ... Pentecost is also called Whitsun, Whitsunday, or Whit Sunday in the ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- 16, 1957) was an Italian musician. He is considered by many critics ... for television productions; today it is used by NBC for Saturday Night ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the oldest film organizations ... called the National Film Library), which is the world's largest film ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi who is regarded as one of America ... Along with Mark Twain and Tennessee Williams, Faulkner is often considered ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
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- "father of the tenor sax," Hawkins is one of jazz's most influential ... landmark "Body and Soul" (1938) is often cited as a turning point ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an influential international daily ... have appeared there since 1961. The first is entitled "The Desolate ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 17:37, 30 April 2023
- Timpani is an Italian plural, the singular of which is timpano. However ... and sometimes aluminum. The drumhead is affixed to a hoop (also called ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in ... The physical geography of Ellesmere Island is stunning, with breathtaking ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy ... When construed in a narrower sense, fuzzy logic is an extension of ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is included on Rolling Stone Magazine ... Records in the 1960s, he infused a country sound into his R & B works ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- The braille system, devised in 1821 by Frenchman Louis Braille, is ... written word to the blind the world over, is one of immeasurable value to ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- The César Award is the national film award of France. The awards ... held in Paris each year in February. It is an initiative of the ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- The double bass, also known as the standup bass, is the largest and ... The double bass is generally regarded as the only modern descendant ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Methodic doubt is a systematic process of withholding assent regarding ... disagreed on the most important issues. But what Descartes sought was a truth ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 16:27, 9 November 2022
- Heimdall is the sentry of Asgard and a member of the Aesir (the gods ... The distinction between Aesir and Vanir is relative, for the two are said ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- occurring between 1960 and 1964. Orbison is internationally recognized ... a resurgence in the 1980s. Today, Orbison is best remembered by fans as ...16 KB (2,532 words) - 23:52, 24 August 2023
- Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree ... the Bombacaceae family. However, Bombacaceae is not universally recognized ...6 KB (941 words) - 04:22, 11 January 2023
- a proper understanding of the Skandhas is an important step towards the ... *Form—in terms of an external object (such as a sound) and its associated ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
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- When liquid helium-4 is cooled to a temperature close to absolute ... John F. Allen, and Don Misener in 1937. It is a major facet in the study ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... life, expresses life through the medium of sound. By helping mark the important ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
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- known novel, Yukiguni (1948; Snow Country), is the story of a middle-aged ... from 1935 through 1947. Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- Wampum is a string of shell beads often woven into belts and formerly ... revived. Today, wampum housed in museums is being slowly restored back ...7 KB (1,160 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
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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 ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- A wing is a natural or artificial surface used to produce lift and ... The wing shape is usually an airfoil. An airfoil-shaped body moved ...23 KB (3,705 words) - 22:06, 25 November 2022
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- The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is the range of all possible electromagnetic ... In our universe, the short wavelength limit is likely to be the Planck length ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 15:55, 13 February 2024
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known ... and its appeal to amateur players. Today, it is often thought of as a child ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
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- bassist Walter Page, Jones became part of what would be the quintessential ... Jones is not to be confused with the equally famous hard-bop drummer ...6 KB (967 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- of Chinese characters to represent their sound, rather than for their meaning ... Form List." The traditional form is called kyūjitai ("old ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
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- A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound ... pictures were slow to take root. In India, sound was the transformative element ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious disease ... high coverage with this vaccine, pertussis is one of the leading causes of ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- The value of the public domain is that it promotes cultural, social ... the public domain as a negative space; that is, it consists of works that ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- In 1962, Lévi-Strauss published, what is for many people his most ... Richly detailed and extremely long, it is less widely read than the much ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
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- artistic knowledge, and insight into what the public wanted proved invaluable ... of the Steam Boat LEXINGTON In Long Island Sound on Monday Eveg, Jany 13th ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
