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  2. Glossary of theater terms - Wikipedia

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    Curtain Call: At the end of a live performance the cast will come out and do a bow while the audience applauds. [6] Doubling: When an actor plays more than one character in a production. Most times this is done for economical reasons but it can be that because an actor would like to take on more than one role in the performance.

  3. Bow - Wikipedia

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    Bow (music), used to play a stringed instrument; Musical bow, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow; EBow, electronic device for playing the electric guitar; Bows (band), a band from the UK; B.O.W. (born 1970), Finnish rapper

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...

  5. Musical bow - Wikipedia

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    The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of African peoples as well as Indigenous peoples of the Americas. [1] It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1.5 to 10 feet (0.5 to 3 m) long, and strung end to end with a taut cord, usually metal.

  6. Bow (music) - Wikipedia

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    A cello bow. In music, a bow (/ b oʊ /) is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound.

  7. Haegeum - Wikipedia

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    The haegeum (Korean: 해금) is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a vertical fiddle with two strings; derived from the ancient Chinese xiqin.It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.

  8. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  9. Outline of theatre - Wikipedia

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    Curtain call – taking a bow at the end of the performance. Actors will generally acknowledge the orchestra pit (if there were any musicians) and the running crew as well as the audience. Drama therapy – the use of theatre as therapy for a variety of issues. [26] Everyman – the concept of the universal person that the audience can relate to.