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  2. Cliff Edwards - Wikipedia

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    Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician and actor. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes.

  3. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    Tab may be given as the only notation (as with chord tab in songbooks that only include lyrics and chords), or, as with guitar solo transcriptions, tab and standard notation may be provided. Sheet music consisting of tablature is sometimes referred to as "tabs."

  4. Tahitian ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The Tahitian ukulele (ʻukarere or Tahitian banjo) is a short-necked fretted lute with eight nylon strings in four doubled courses, native to Tahiti and played in other regions of Polynesia. This variant of the older Hawaiian ukulele is noted by a higher and thinner sound and an open back, [ 1 ] and is often strummed much faster.

  5. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    Like guitar, basic ukulele skills can be learned fairly easily, and this highly portable, relatively inexpensive instrument was popular with amateur players throughout the 1920s, as evidenced by the introduction of uke chord tablature into the published sheet music for popular songs of the time [25] (a role that was supplanted by the guitar in ...

  6. Works for prepared piano by John Cage - Wikipedia

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    Independently created sonorities (single notes, chords, aggregates) are arranged into rectangular charts; the music is composed by tracing geometric patterns on them. [21] There are three movements. The piano part develops from free composition (movement 1) to following the orchestra using a parallel chart (movement 2) and then to sharing the ...

  7. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    There are a multiple reasons for this, the ukulele has become a popular instrument to take up, with the Classical Music website of the BBC Music Magazine stating thas the UOGB "has played a major part in popularising the ukulele, with sales at music stores booming and the instrument becoming a mainstay of schools’ music curriculum". [64]

  8. Marching Through Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The original sheet music arranges a piano accompaniment to be performed during the song. [39] "Marching Through Georgia" is in common time in the key of B♭ major. Commencing with a four-bar introduction, it follows a chord progression of B♭–E♭–B♭–F 7 –B♭. Each verse and chorus is eight bars long.

  9. Max Steiner - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the film, his theme is played fully in major chords and finishes by abruptly ending the chord as the film terminates (this was an unusual film music practice in Hollywood at the time). [ 1 ] : 33, 48 According to Christopher Palmer , the love theme for Bogart's Philip and Lauren Bacall 's Vivian is one of Steiner's strongest themes.