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  • The double bass, also known as the standup bass, is the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra ...
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  • for his orchestral music, he composed two string quartets and other works ... Park woods (played by the strings). The string harmony uses shifting chord ...
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  • *1953 - String Dustin'*1954 - A Session with Chet Atkins ... *1969 - The Nashville String Band *1969 - Chet Atkins Picks on the Pops ...
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  • weddings and bar mitzvahs (Schuman played string bass in the band). In 1925 ... several new works including his Third String Quartet on a commission from ...
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  • The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths which has become one of the most popular and most used instrument ...
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  • modern physics. There are now indications that string theory and its descendants may provide a model of the electron and other fundamental particles ...
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  • 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for its string of hit singles from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967 ...
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  • four. Seven-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-string versions also exist. The ... Susa. There is evidence that a four string, guitar-like instrument called ...
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  • fibers are spun into filaments, thread, string or rope. Some are components ... * Production of rope, string, and so forth. * Data communications by ...
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  • into mats, the pulp and fibers made into string and paper, and the cattail ... and the pulp and fibers made into string and paper. Native American ...
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  • of quarks, but for the long-distance string-like behavior discovered ... to fit quantum gravity, including string theory, loop quantum gravity ...
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  • *Crisantemi (String Quartet, 1890, "Alla memoria di Amadeo di ... *Minuetto n.1 (String Quartet, published about 1892, "A.S.A.R ...
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  • the types of often distinguished are: string instruments, woodwind instruments ... *String instruments generate a sound when the string is plucked, strummed ...
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  • second movement of Samuel Barber's first String Quartet is an "Adagio." Such movements may start to lead a life of their own, and become ...
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  • An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, consisting of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion sections. The term orchestra derives from the ...
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  • *Serenade for string orchestra, Op.20 (revised version of Three Pieces ... *Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra ...
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  • more intimate compositions for guitar and string instruments, particularly ... (the so-called right-hand techniques for string players), the two issues ...
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  • the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet." ... training, and eventually wrote his first string quartets and his first opera ...
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  • the new "Nashville Sound"—a string orchestra and legato harmonized ... as a country music artist and earned a string of Top-10 hits on the country ...
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  • a spiral seashell and asked for a string to be run through it. When he reached Camicus, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve ...
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