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  • street effect. The motion of the wind across a string causes a periodic vortex downstream and which causes the string to vibrate. The merest motion ...
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  • place, such as the vibrations of a violin string, they are called standing ... of the wave; examples include waves on a string and electromagnetic waves ...
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  • to do with the correct or formal structure of a string of symbols in a formal language, as, for example, sending a string from a formal language to ...
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  • of the Third Symphony (1918) and the First String Quartet (1920). Both works ... 1940), Second Piano Quartet (1944), Second String Quartet (1951) and Chamber ...
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  • The following year he wrote his String Quartet in B minor, Opus 11 ... #039;s Dover Beach, originally written for string quartet and baritone, the ...
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  • a groove at the base used to pull the string (tsuru). The kyudo archer ... All kyudo archers hold the bow in their left hand and draw the string ...
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  • instruments generate sound by plucking a string rather than striking one ... light construction and relatively little string tension. This design persisted ...
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  • ** String Quartet in G minor (1887–88, rev. 1897) ** String Quartet in F minor (1890) ** String Quartet in E flat (1897–98 ...
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  • and dark energy, and the formulation of string cosmology and astroparticle ... and physical cosmology, including string cosmology and astroparticle ...
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  • Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ... eventually left in order to join a popular string quartet formed by his later ...
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  • Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (for string orchestra), the Violin Concerto ... "A Time There Was" and Third String Quartet (1975), which drew ...
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  • Quartet, which premiered Debussy's String Quartet. ... (one or two violins, violin and cello, string quartet) and orchestra (Poème ...
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  • In general string instruments tend to be tuned in sharp keys (such ... notes have more strings or a thicker string associated with them. ...
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  • singing, his powerful use of the 12-string guitar, and the rich songbook ... and equally powerful strumming of his 12-string guitar were his trademarks ...
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  • a "chordophone" as rope or string are used to activate the ... Most instruments known as "chordophones" are defined as ...
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  • Their string of crimes hit a hiccup in Sylvania, Ohio, where they were caught in the midst of a bank robbery, and Floyd was sentenced to fifteen ...
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  • on a combination of fiddle and plucked string instruments (most often the ... The most common instruments are acoustic string instruments. Historically ...
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  • following instruments: guitar or banjo, string bass or tuba, piano, and drums. ... sections of these bands substitute the string bass for the tuba and the ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • *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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  • 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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  • way to facilitate the quick changing of a string's pitch to be able to ... neck, capable of raising the pitch of a string by either one or two half ...
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  • composition. Dvořák composed his String Quintet No. 2 in 1875, and ... two of his most famous chamber works, the String Quartet No. 12 in F (the ...
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  • A string of blues hits soon followed. Reed's simple, straightforward ... | 1963 || Jimmy Reed Plays 12 String Guitar Blues |- |-bgcolor=" ...
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  • along with some of the works for solo string instruments. His late piano and two-piano music places him as a successor to Brahms in the central ...
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  • tangents which remain in contact with the string. In a piano, the strings ... piano design: the hammers must strike the string but not continue to touch ...
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  • symphonies, concerti, piano sonatas, string quartets and other chamber ... first and second symphonies, the first six string quartets, the first two piano ...
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  • and wrote a set of transcriptions for string trio of fugues from Bach ... 29 (Hammerklavier) piano sonata (1818) and String Quartet No. 13 (string quartet ...
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  • pages, challenging Morton Feldman's String Quartet II for longest chamber ... *Il Tessuto d’Arabeschi (flute and string quartet) *Fantasiettina ...
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  • Blossoms in 1919 and Sissy in 1932, a string quartet, songs and a number ... 1043. w/ Efrem Zimbalist (vn #2), and a string quartet. rec. 1915. ...
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  • courses or registers. This was the first book on string technique written by an Englishman. ==Books and Compositions== * Medulla Musicke, (The ...
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  • praised him as the “Paganini of the five-string banjo." The next year ... * Scruggs, Earl. Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo. New York: Peer ...
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  • by suona, jinghu, other kinds of string instruments, and percussion ... Sizhu ensembles use flutes and bowed or plucked string instruments ...
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  • quot; sound of the time, with its smooth, string-laden, pop-influenced styles ... In the 1970s, he enjoyed a string of hit duets with a protege, Susan ...
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