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Anonymous broadside, Angus, Newcastle, 1774–1825. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas. There are many variations in the lyrics.
1. 1. "Three is a Magic Number". Bob Dorough. Bob Dorough. January 6, 1973. (1973-01-06) A magician shows how magic the multiplication of 3 really is, including a family of three and a football team whose uniforms are numbered in threes. "Three Is a Magic Number" was the pilot episode and had originally aired in full as part of Curiosity Shop ...
8, 12 8, and 21 8, and barlines rarely coincide in all four instruments. [30] With polyrhythm, the number of beats varies within a fixed bar length. For example, in a 4:3 polyrhythm, one part plays 4 4 while the other plays 3 4, but the 3 4 beats are stretched so that three beats of 3 4 are played in the same time as four beats of 4 4.
Auld Lang Syne. John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841. " Auld Lang Syne " (Scots pronunciation: [ˈɔːl (d) lɑŋ ˈsəi̯n]) [a][1] is a popular Scottish song, particularly in the English-speaking world. Traditionally, it is sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve / Hogmanay.
In the most familiar acuity test, a Snellen chart is placed at a standard distance: 6 metres. At this distance, the symbols on the line representing "normal" acuity subtend an angle of five minutes of arc, and the thickness of the lines and of the spaces between the lines subtends one minute of arc. This line, designated 6/6 (or 20/20), is the ...
8 and 7 8. Another 6 8 and 7 8 section follows, and after this the song goes into repeating bars of 5 8 and 9 8. The section ends with the music hanging suspended over a bar of 9 8. The middle section is subsequently introduced at 3:29, maintaining a group of three bars of 6 8 then one of 9 8 until 5:02. Then a series of 8 4, 10 4, 8 4, 8 4 ...
Ratio. In mathematics, a ratio (/ ˈreɪʃ (i) oʊ /) shows how many times one number contains another. For example, if there are eight oranges and six lemons in a bowl of fruit, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six (that is, 8:6, which is equivalent to the ratio 4:3). Similarly, the ratio of lemons to oranges is 6:8 (or 3:4) and ...
One octave of 12-tet on a monochord (linear) The chromatic circle depicts equal distances between notes (logarithmic) Since the frequency ratio of a semitone is close to 106% ( 1.05946 × 100 = 105.946 {\displaystyle 1.05946\times 100=105.946} ), increasing or decreasing the playback speed of a recording by 6% will shift the pitch up or down by ...