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  2. Paranoid (Black Sabbath song) - Wikipedia

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    Paranoid (Black Sabbath song) " Paranoid " is a song by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in 1970 off the band's second studio album, Paranoid (1970). It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song "The Wizard". The song is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time.

  3. Black Sabbath - Wikipedia

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    Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler, and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. [1] The band helped define the genre with their first three albums Black Sabbath, Paranoid (both 1970), and Master of Reality ...

  4. Paranoid (album) - Wikipedia

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    Paranoid (album) Paranoid. (album) Paranoid is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on 18 September 1970, by Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom and on 7 January 1971, by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album contains several of the band's signature songs, including "Iron Man", "War Pigs ...

  5. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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    Temperament, in music, the accommodation or adjustment of the imperfect sounds by transferring a part of their defects to the more perfect ones, in order to remedy, in some degree, the false intervals of those instruments, the sounds of which are fixed; as the organ, harpsichord, piano-forte, etc. Temperament is what the Italians call ...

  6. Geezer Butler - Wikipedia

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    Deadland Ritual. Website. geezerbutler.com. Terence Michael Joseph " Geezer " Butler (born 17 July 1949) [1] is a retired English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell, GZR, Ozzy Osbourne, and Deadland Ritual.

  7. Master of Reality - Wikipedia

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    Master of Reality is the third studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in the United Kingdom on 6 August 1971 [4] by Vertigo Records. [5] It is regarded by some critics as the foundation of doom metal, stoner rock, and sludge metal. [6] Produced by Rodger Bain, who also produced the band's prior two albums, Master of ...

  8. Meantone temperament - Wikipedia

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    In these terms, some historically notable meantone tunings are listed below, and compared with the closest equitempered microtonal tuning. The first column gives the fraction of the systonic comma by which the perfect fifths are tempered in the meantone system. The second lists 5-limit rational intervals that occur within this tuning. The third ...

  9. Pythagorean tuning - Wikipedia

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    Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are determined by choosing a sequence of fifths [2] which are "pure" or perfect, with ratio :. This is chosen because it is the next harmonic of a vibrating string, after the octave (which is the ratio 2 : 1 {\displaystyle 2:1} ), and hence is the ...