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transposing instrument
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
transposing instrument a musical instrument whose...minor third higher than it is to sound. Transposing instruments were necessary in the 17th...flute , cornet , and most saxophones are transposing instruments. Parts for the piccolo...
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Samuel Johnson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...published two "imitations" of the Roman satirist Juvenal, London, a Poem (1738) and The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), transposing the language and situations of the classical originals into those of his own day. In 1744 Johnson published a biography...
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Laborers
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...comrades' rules, the "Chapel Ghost," the guardian of their properties, exacted revenge by "mixing [his] Sorts, transposing [his] Pages, breaking [his] Matter" (Franklin, p. 99 – 101). In every mechanical art, skilled men sweated...
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Reading disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...difficulty identifying single words problems understanding the sounds in words, sound order, or rhymes problems with spelling transposing letters in words omitting or substituting words poor reading comprehension slow reading speed (oral or silent) In addition...
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trumpet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pitch. This was a fairly clumsy method, however, and was superseded in the early 19th cent., when valves were added. A transposing instrument , it is now most often in B flat. A bass trumpet in C was first called for by Wagner. The trumpet is an important...
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oboe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the oboe. The oboe da caccia is an early version of the English horn, pitched a fifth lower than the oboe and therefore a transposing instrument. Oboes of this size were known by 1665, and Purcell scored for one in his Dioclesian (1691). A curved form...
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French horn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...employed symphonically to produce the simple woodland sound. In modern orchestras it is usually in the key of F and is a transposing instrument . The present-day French horns normally have three valves, introduced in the 19th cent. The valves supplanted...
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English horn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...English horn musical instrument, the alto of the oboe family, pitched a fifth lower than the oboe and treated as a transposing instrument . It has a pear-shaped bell, giving it a soft, melancholy tone. The first important parts for it were...
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cornet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...horn. It is usually in B flat and is the same size as the B flat trumpet, but has a more conical bore. The cornet, a transposing instrument , has a less brilliant tone but greater agility than the trumpet. It has long been a standard instrument in bands...
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César Franck
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...counterpoint, fugue, and organ. He became known for the ease with which he improvised and performed difficult music at sight, transposing it to any key at will. After a 2-year sojourn in Belgium, Franck settled permanently in Paris. He began composing and...
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