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  2. Contra dance choreography - Wikipedia

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    Long Lines Forward & Back All dancers face toward the dancers across the set from them, and join hands with the dancers beside them to form "long lines" on the sides of the set. These two lines then, in unison, take four steps forward and then four steps backward. [2] Mad Robin (Sashay Round) Two dancers move around one another as in a do-si-do.

  3. The Biggest Disappointment - Wikipedia

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    The lyrics begin "They had my future wrapped up in a parcel / And no one even thought of asking me" and the song progresses to tell the story of a "quiet country boy" who leaves home to follow his dreams, only to face "a lot more dinner times than there were dinners" as he tries to live on nothing, becoming "the biggest disappointment" to his family.

  4. Looking Forward Looking Back - Wikipedia

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    Looking Forward Looking Back is the 56th studio album by Australian country music singer-songwriter Slim Dusty. This album was Slim Dusty's 100th album release. Looking Forward Looking Back was celebrated with a special Network 9 This Is Your Life event presentation by Mike Munro. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2001, the album won Best Country ...

  5. Inversion (music) - Wikipedia

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    An interval is inverted by raising or lowering either of the notes by one or more octaves so that the higher note becomes the lower note and vice versa. For example, the inversion of an interval consisting of a C with an E above it (the third measure below) is an E with a C above it – to work this out, the C may be moved up, the E may be lowered, or both may be moved.

  6. Free jazz - Wikipedia

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    Free jazz retains pulsation and sometimes swings but without regular meter. Frequent accelerando and ritardando give an impression of rhythm that moves like a wave. [4] Previous jazz forms used harmonic structures, usually cycles of diatonic chords. When improvisation occurred, it was founded on the notes in the chords.

  7. Contra dance - Wikipedia

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    While all dancers in the room are part of the same dance pattern, half of the couples in the room are moving toward the band at any moment and half are moving away, so when everybody steps forward, they find new people to dance with. Once a couple reaches the end of the set, they switch direction, dancing back along the set the other way.

  8. Arpeggio - Wikipedia

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    In early video game music, arpeggios were often the only way to play a chord since sound hardware usually had a very limited number of oscillators, or voices. Instead of tying them all up to play one chord, one channel could be used to play an arpeggio, leaving the rest for drums, bass, or sound effects.

  9. Slash chord - Wikipedia

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    Some sources notate slash chords with a horizontal line, [3] although this is discouraged as this type of notation can also imply a polychord.While almost all pop and rock usages of slash chords are intended to be read as a chord with a bass note underneath it other than the root of the chord, in jazz and jazz fusion, sometimes a chord notated as F/A is intended to be read as a polychord; in ...