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  2. Dante Symphony - Wikipedia

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    The symphony is scored for one piccolo (doubling as 3rd flute in the second movement), two flutes, two oboes, one English horn, two clarinets in B ♭ and A, one bass clarinet in B ♭ and A, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in B ♭ and D, two tenor trombones, one bass trombone, one tuba, two sets of timpani (requiring two players), cymbals, bass drum, tamtam, two harps (the second ...

  3. Home Free (group) - Wikipedia

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    Home Free's styling as a country group is relatively recent. Before Foust joined the group, Home Free was an all-purpose a cappella group, singing in a wide variety of styles, of which country was only a minor one. With the additions of Foust and Brown, the group moved more in the direction of country and found that audiences responded well to it.

  4. Evolution of timpani in the 18th and 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Some music historians conclude that Schumann's cousin-in-law Ernst Pfundt, the main timpanist in Leipzig and a prominent figure in timpani development, suggested the use of three machines. Regardless, Schumann understood the harmonic possibilities of three drums and realized that the score would not require as many rests to allow the timpanist ...

  5. Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia

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    Tension occurs when the music (and the listener with it) is pulled away from the tonic. Tchaikovsky "not only increases the contrasts between the themes on the one hand and the keys on the other," but ups the ante by introducing his second theme in a key unrelated to the first theme and delaying the transition to the expected key.

  6. Music technology (mechanical) - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical music technology is the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, play back or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music. The earliest known applications of technology to music was prehistoric peoples' use of a tool to hand-drill holes in bones to ...

  7. Joe Jones (Fluxus musician) - Wikipedia

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    In 1969 Jones opened his own Tone Deaf Music Store (aka Joe Jones Music Store and/or JJ Music Store) at 18 N. Moore Street in New York City. There he presented his repetitive drone music machines in the window so that anyone could press the numerous door buttons to play the machine noise music in the window. [4]

  8. Odeon Records - Wikipedia

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    The company's output included "drama songs, speeches, folk music, classical music, drama sets, skits and plays, vocal and instrumental music". [9] It has been estimated that about 600 titles have survived in private collections. [8] The British Museum have digitised some of these records which are free in an online archive. [9] [8]

  9. Jordan Rudess - Wikipedia

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    An automated virtual version of Jordan Rudess on a screen during a live performance in Porto Alegre, 2010. While many keyboard players in progressive rock tend to bring numerous keyboards on stage, creating large racks of instruments, Rudess samples sounds from other keyboards he owns and maps them to a single keyboard.