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A musician who plays any instrument with a keyboard. In Classical music, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and so on. In a jazz or popular music context, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, and so on. Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger.)
The Oxford English Dictionary traces early use of the word (in psychological usage) to 1968. [ 2 ] Eustress is the positive cognitive response to stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfilment or other positive feelings.
121.1 Clack idiophones - The lamella is carved in the surface of a fruit shell, which serves as resonator. Cricri; 121.2 Guimbardes and Jaw harps - The lamella is mounted in a rod- or plaque-shaped frame and depends on the player's mouth cavity for resonance.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. Gagné, Nicole V. 2011. Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. Plymouth, England: Scarecrow Press. Gittleman, Sol. 1968. Frank Wedekind. Twayne's World Authors Series TWAS 55. New York: Twayne.
For example, a pop toob is a brand name for a noisemaker or musical instrument consisting of tubes that are extendable, bendable, and connectable, with the noise being created concussively by the bending and unbending, or popping, of the tube's corrugation, [6] whereas a whirly tube uses corrugated tubing and the difference in speed and thus ...
Some classical composers have performed a kind of plunderphonia on written, rather than recorded, music. Perhaps the best-known example is the third movement of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, in which multiple quotations from the music of other composers are superimposed on a complete performance of the second movement from Mahler's second symphony.
In European art music, the common practice period was the period of about 250 years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition. It began when composers' use of the tonal system had clearly superseded earlier systems, and ended when some composers began using significantly modified versions of the tonal system, and began developing other systems as well.
In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". [1] The earliest known examples of this procedure (sometimes referred to as ''adaptation'') date back to the 9th century used in connection with Gregorian chant.