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In music theory, the wolf fifth (sometimes also called Procrustean fifth, or imperfect fifth) [1] [2] is a particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven semitones. Strictly, the term refers to an interval produced by a specific tuning system , widely used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the quarter-comma meantone ...
"Lonely Lullaby" is a melancholy-influenced piano ballad [4] written and produced by Adam Young of Owl City.According to the digital sheet music published by Universal Music Publishing Group, the song was originally composed in the key of F ♯ major and set in common time to a "flowing" tempo of 67, slowing down to 57,5 BPM at the end. [6] "
Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed is the first studio album by the American psychedelic rock band Weird Owl, [2] released by the label Tee Pee Records on February 17, 2009. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The album was released following their 2007 EP entitled Nuclear Psychology .
The Grandmother chord is an eleven-interval, twelve-note, invertible chord with all of the properties of the Mother chord. Additionally, the intervals are so arranged that they alternate odd and even intervals (counted by semitones) and that the odd intervals successively decrease by one whole-tone while the even intervals successively increase by one whole-tone. [13]
Human accounts of wolf behavior are typified by depictions of howling, and this has been incorporated into fictional and mythical representations, such as the werewolf. Virgil, in his poetic work Eclogues, wrote about a man called Moeris, who used herbs and poisons picked in his native Pontus to turn himself into a wolf. [30]
"The Owl and the Pussy Cat" is a song for soprano and piano composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1966, based on the eponymous text by Edward Lear. It is Stravinsky's final completed original composition. Stravinsky had known Lear's poem prior to setting it as it had been the first English language verses his wife Vera had memorized.
The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music. These two major triads , C major and F ♯ major – a tritone apart – clash, "horribly with each other," when sounded together and create a dissonant chord .
The eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) or eastern screech-owl, is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] This species resides in most types of woodland habitats across its range, and is relatively adaptable to urban and developed areas compared to other owls.