Search results for "Keyboard instrument" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • in the Medici court, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. ...
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  • A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions ... The concertina has historically been a favorite instrument among people ...
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  • sacred music, chamber compositions, and keyboard pieces occupied important ... he compose important solo works for the instrument, but he was a pioneering ...
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  • A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the ...
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  • of works, including works for solo instrument such as keyboard or violin ... by a solo instrument, most often a keyboard instrument, or by a solo instrument ...
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  • * Harpsichord (Europe, keyboard instrument) * Irish bouzouki (Ireland) ... * Clavichord (keyboard instrument) * Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam) ...
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  • ===Instrumental and keyboard works=== wrote instrumental music, including keyboard music, some of which has ...
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  • A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... brass instruments percussion instruments, keyboard instruments, idiophones ...
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  • within the Baroque period. At least one instrument capable of playing chords ... The keyboard (or other chording instrument) player realizes a continuo ...
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  • who ever made a large church organ (an instrument his size) swing, and he ... church organs. His performances on that instrument include spirituals (Deep ...
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  • Volume of Canzoni to be played with any type of instrument" published in 1628. ==Legacy== Frescobaldi was one of the inventors of the modern ...
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  • to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra ... harpsichord (normally an accompanying instrument) in his Fifth Brandenburg ...
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  • of harmony. The piano is a versatile keyboard instrument widely used in both ... which was the only previous keyboard instrument capable of dynamic ...
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  • yet he created imaginative sonatas for keyboard, and made significant contributions ... was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ. From the age ...
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  • The reed organ is a keyboard instrument that operates via bellows that blow wind past free-floating reeds. A free floating reed doesn’t change ...
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  • and that he had an own way of tuning the instrument to allow for the tonality ... ====Other keyboard works==== The rest of Buxtehude's keyboard ...
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  • but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocal ability. ... of Wonder's work the Hohner clavinet keyboard, sometimes mistaken for ...
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  • The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while ... popular music acts also make use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion ...
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  • * Moving marching timpani and keyboard-percussion into a stationary sideline percussion section, which has since incorporated many different ...
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  • |Instrument = Vocals (playback singing), guitar, keyboard/harmonium/piano ... him, would collect the notes for their instrument and go to their places ...
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  • take lessons in musical composition and keyboard techniques from Friedrich ... interest in baroque music and original instrument playing styles, interest ...
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  • The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all ... used to refer to the earlier form of the instrument, commonly used in early ...
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  • If a piece is composed for just one instrument or voice (such as a piece ... needs to be not only playable on the keyboard but also thorough enough ...
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  • another son, Johann Michael, became an instrument maker. One of his daughters ... Apollinis (Nuremberg, 1699), a set of six keyboard arias with variations. Although ...
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  • Bohemia were played on the violin, an instrument that remains popular today ... dance bands. Utilizing a melodic keyboard for the right hand and chord ...
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  • for a sustaining bass instrument and a keyboard instrument ... of the unique properties of each type of musical instrument ...
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  • Examples of an electromechanical instrument are the teleharmonium, ... instruments. An electromechanical instrument called the Teleharmonium ...
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  • | Instrument = Piano | Voice_type = | Genre = Jazz, bebop ... to the extent possible within the piano keyboard. Powell's lines form ...
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  • typewriter" rather than a "keyboard typewriter," if it ... Hansen made a porcelain model of the keyboard of his writing ball and ...
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  • secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all ... include the Brandenburg concertos, the keyboard suites and partitas, the ...
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  • His main oeuvre is for the piano, on which instrument he was one of ... and though very accomplished at the keyboard, understood that music was ...
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  • and sometimes joined the band as a second keyboard player in studio sessions.]] ... with Jones on a Hammond B-3 organ, the instrument he is most known. They ...
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  • A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the ... the column of air and the shape of the instrument, while the tone quality ...
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  • The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without ... The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two ...
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  • |instruments=Electric guitar, Bass guitar, Electric piano, Keyboard, Drums, Drum machine, horn section, string section, orchestral solo instruments ...
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  • Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 - May 9, 2020), better known by the stage name Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and ...
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  • of the complete Johann Sebastian Bach solo keyboard works, which he edited with the assistance of his students Egon Petri and Bruno Mugellini. He ...
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  • demonstrate the many dimensions of the instrument. Much of his music was ... vel claviorchestrale (Little Work for Keyboard and Orchestra) (1973 – 1975) ...
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  • lutenist who would move the neck of his instrument in time with the beat. ... conductor, who did not also play an instrument during the performance ...
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  • | Instrument = Double bass, piano | Genre = Jazz ... to double bass when he took up the instrument in high school. ...
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  • Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) was an American roots rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 70s with a string of successful ...
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  • Ltd, Yamaha's UK import and musical instrument and professional audio ... the company’s origins as a musical instrument manufacturer. ...
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  • The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical ... impulse through song. Due to the instrument's scopic range of ...
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  • his showmanship and great skill with the keyboard. Today, he is generally ... stunned at his unrivaled mastery over the keyboard. Perhaps the best indication ...
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  • A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most ... A carillon, which is a musical instrument consisting of at least 23 ...
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  • the emergence of the "studio as instrument" trend. Studio production ... The other "classic" keyboard instrument of psychedelic rock ...
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  • 1975 for eight vocalists and an optional keyboard part. The work is one of ... works explore the possibilities of each instrument to the full, often calling ...
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  • Waters, drummer Nick Mason, and wind instrument player Rick Wright—formed ... and Wright preferred melodic psychedelic keyboard-heavy numbers. Unlike Waters ...
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  • George developed a greater affinity for the keyboard and soon took over the instrument and the lessons. George would hear new songs at school and on ...
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  • The Beach Boys are one of the most successful American rock and roll bands. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies ...
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  • devices, including a 31 tone to the octave keyboard instrument, which made use of his discovery of 31 equal temperaments. ===Later years=== ...
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  • appear below the staff or (in the case of keyboard instrument) in the middle of the grand staff. They generally designate a gradual change in ...
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  • to play, the pianist reaches inside the instrument and plucks, sweeps, and ... or Polyrhythmophone, a transposable keyboard instrument capable of playing ...
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  • counterpoint, and growing popularity of keyboard music (harpsichord and pipe ... then on would become the predominant instrument for keyboard performance ...
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  • but it has also been said that his real instrument was his band. Basie brought ... leadership as much as to his innovative keyboard work. Basie's band ...
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  • jazz and swing. Dylan performs with the guitar, keyboard, and harmonica. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late ...
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  • like James Burton and Barney Kessel, keyboard artists such as Leon Russell and Dr. John, and arranger Jack Nitzsche, Campbell formed part of ...
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  • metal plate on top of the strings of the instrument. He liked the resulting ... more than a million-to keep seven keyboard players, 52 tape recorders ...
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  • and learned to play her first rhythm instrument, the glockenspiel. She ... Karen played the drums, Richard, the keyboard, and a friend, Wes Jacobs ...
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  • Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted ...
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  • the typewriter to computer the use of a keyboard has changed the skills required ... the pen or plume as the preferred instrument of writing) could re-create ...
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  • | Instrument = Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, vibraphone, synclavier, drums | Genre = Rock, jazz, classical, experiment ...
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  • buffalo horns. The most ubiquitous wind instrument in Laos is the khene, which ... The unique and haunting drone of the Lao national instrument, the ...
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  • About 350 of these are for solo instrument and strings, of which 230 ... six of Vivaldi's concerti for solo keyboard, three for organ, and one ...
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  • Examination at the piano keyboard will reveal that there are four semitones between the root and third of the chord on C, but only three semitones ...
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  • ondes Martenot, an electronic musical instrument, of which his sister-in ... using the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument, by composing the unpublished ...
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  • | Instrument = Vocals, multi-instrumentalist | Genre ... 039;s touring band in the spring, playing keyboard and singing backing vocals ...
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  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jazz-keyboard-virtuoso-chick-corea-dead ... his use of the piano as a percussion instrument. Corea developed his ...
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  • included them in many of his oratorios. Keyboard suites from this time often ... consisting of subject entries by each instrument once. Leonard Bernstein ...
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  • piano and mechanical organ), and on this instrument in May 1825 he performed ... #039;s Piano", about the instrument's defenestration by ...
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  • The Diddley bow, a homemade one-stringed instrument thought to be common throughout ... which refers to a type of homemade bass instrument made from a metal bucket ...
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  • period, notably C.P.E. Bach in the field of the keyboard sonata, and J.C. Bach and Leopold Mozart in the symphony, Haydn was undoubtedly the strongest ...
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