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  2. Atlas - Wikipedia

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    Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographical features and political boundaries, many atlases often feature geopolitical, social, religious, and economic statistics. They also have information about the map and places in it.

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A Picardy third, Picardy cadence (ˈpɪkərdi ) or, in French, tierce picarde is a harmonic device used in Western classical music. It refers to the use of a major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section that is either modal or in a minor key. piatti Cymbals, generally meaning a pair of orchestral clashed cymbals piena

  4. Maps & Atlases - Wikipedia

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    Maps & Atlases is an American indie rock group from Chicago, Illinois, United States, equally influenced by alternative rock, folk and experimental music.In addition, they have been labeled as a math rock band.

  5. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    In a live music context, this is a slang term used by musicians to refer to the audio processing and amplification gear used by a keyboardist, bassist, or electric guitarist. An electric bassist, for example, may refer to her speaker cabinet, bass amplifier "head" and rack-mounted effects units collectively as her "rig" (or "bass rig").

  6. Atlas (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Atlas, a computer used at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2006; Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems (ATLAS), a computer language for equipment testing; Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator (ATLAS), a hydraulic motion simulator used in theme parks; ASP.NET AJAX (formerly "Atlas"), a set of ASP.NET extensions

  7. Map - Wikipedia

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    Geographic maps use a projection to translate the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Projection always distorts the surface. There are many ways to apportion the distortion, and so there are many map projections. Which projection to use depends on the purpose of the map. [5]

  8. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The process of interpreting musical notation is often referred to as reading music. Distinct methods of notation have been invented throughout history by various cultures. Much information about ancient music notation is fragmentary. Even in the same time frames, different styles of music and different cultures use different music notation methods.

  9. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    Musical phrasing is the method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression, much like when speaking English a phrase may be written identically but may be spoken differently, and is named for the interpretation of small units of time known as phrases (half of a period).