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A nocturnal is an instrument used to determine the local time based on the position of a star in the night sky relative to the pole star. As a result of the Earth's rotation , any fixed star makes a full revolution around the pole star in 23 hours and 56 minutes and therefore can be used as an hour hand .
Nocturnal: instrument to determine local time using relative positions of two or more stars in the night sky; Octant: measuring instrument used primarily in navigation; type of reflecting instrument; Optical spectrometer, also known as Spectrograph: instrument to measure the properties of visible light; Orrery: mechanical model of the Solar System
Nocturne, Op. 60, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, written for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings. [1] The seven instruments are flute, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, harp, French horn and timpani.
Charles-Valentin Alkan: five for solo piano; Anton Stepanovich Arensky: two nocturnes for piano, each part of a set: No. 1 from Six Pieces, Op. 5 (1884); No. 3 from Twenty-four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 36 (1894); a nocturne for two pianos, no. 8 from Variations (Suite No. 3), Op. 33
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The baroque guitar (c.1600–1750) was a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was sometimes a single string. It replaced the Renaissance lute as the most common instrument found in the home.
Beving cites his musical influences as Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Chopin, Satie, Radiohead and Mahler.His favourite classical composers are Scriabin, Prokofiev (especially his 3rd Piano Concerto), Mahler, Brahms, Arvo Pärt, Peteris Vasks and Tigran Hamasyan.
One of the better known nocturnes, this piece has a rhythmic freedom that came to characterize Chopin's later work. The left hand has an unbroken sequence of eighth notes in simple arpeggios throughout the entire piece, while the right hand moves with freedom, occasionally in patterns of seven, eleven, twenty, and twenty-two in the form of polyrhythms.