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In a parody of the Schoolhouse Rock! series, Larry plays the accordion and sings a song about homophones to the tune of the title song from the play/film "Oklahoma!". However, he gets exhausted and tries to go off-screen, but the announcer keeps bringing him back to sing more including prepositions, pronouns, and adjectives until the song comes ...
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 ...
Homophony began by appearing in sacred music, replacing polyphony and monophony as the dominant form, but spread to secular music, for which it is one of the standard forms today. Composers known for their homophonic work during the Baroque period include Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Schoolhouse Rock Songbook (Cherry Lane Music), containing sheet music for 10 songs. Soundtrack The 4-CD release with bonus tracks on each CD was released on June 18, 1996, by Rhino Records . The Best of Schoolhouse Rock ( ISBN 1-56826-927-7 ) was released in 1998 jointly by American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. and Rhino Records .
The most common tuplet [9] is the triplet (German Triole, French triolet, Italian terzina or tripletta, Spanish tresillo).Whereas normally two quarter notes (crotchets) are the same duration as a half note (minim), three triplet quarter notes have that same duration, so the duration of a triplet quarter note is 2 ⁄ 3 the duration of a standard quarter note.
In May 2003, the song Brick by Brick was released as a single, with an accompanying music video. This brought the band further success, as the single reached #1 on the college rock charts and several tracks from their debut album made appearances in other media, including the TV series The Sopranos and the video game True Crime: Streets of LA .
Quarter tones have their roots in the music of the Middle East and more specifically in Persian traditional music. [1] However, the first evidenced proposal of the equally-tempered quarter tone scale, or 24 equal temperament , was made by 19th-century music theorists Heinrich Richter in 1823 [ 2 ] and Mikhail Mishaqa about 1840. [ 3 ]
In the Thai dance-drama genre lakhon nok and the masked dance-drama khon there is a unique group of songs based on a rhythmic cycle of seven beats, quite unlike the usual rhythmic structures of Thai traditional music. Portions of this repertoire of songs in additive meter date back to the Ayudhia period (1350–1767). [4]