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clef
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note
note in musical notation , symbol placed on or between the lines of a staff to indicate the pitch and the relative duration of the tone to be produced by voice or instrument. The largest note value in common use in the United States is the whole note, an elliptical outline. Its value is halved by... Read more |
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promissory note
promissory note unconditional written promise to pay a certain sum of money at a definite time to bearer or to a specified person on his order. Promissory notes are generally used as evidence of debt. The holder of a note made payable to bearer may transfer his rights to another by delivery of the... Read more |
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Bank failures
COUNTERFEITING COUNTERFEITING. To counterfeit means to imitate with intent to defraud. Most counterfeit paper money can be classified in one of three categories: (1) notes that imitate legitimate notes; (2) alterations of legitimate notes, including notes raised from a lower to a higher... Read more |
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Maker
MAKER One who makes, frames, executes, or ordains; as a lawmaker, or the maker of a promissory note. One who signs a note to borrow and, as such, assumes the obligation to pay the note when due. The person who creates or executes a note, that is, issues it, and in signing the instrument makes the... Read more |
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treble clef
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staff
staff in musical notation, a set of horizontal lines upon and between which notes are written so as to determine their relative pitch, and in connection with a clef, their absolute pitch. Staffs with several lines survive from the late 9th cent., the lines denoting only pitches. In early attempts... Read more |
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Sibbecai
Sibbecai or Sibbechai , in the Bible, one of David's guard, noted for his fight with the Philistine giant. He is also called Mebunnai.... Read more |
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gamut
gamut a complete scale of musical notes; the compass or range of a voice or instrument. Earlier, a scale consisting of seven overlapping hexachords, containing all the recognized notes used in medieval music, covering almost three octaves from bass G to treble E. The word comes from medieval Latin... Read more |
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Roman a clef
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flat
flat (symbol b) In musical notation, an accidental sign placed before a note or immediately after the clef to indicate that the note it refers to should be sounded a semitone lower. |
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sharp
sharp In musical notation, an accidental sign placed before a note or immediately after the clef to indicate that the note it refers to should be sounded a semitone higher. It is designated by the sign #. |
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Manley, Mrs (Mary?) Delarivière
...novels and memoirs, including The New Atalantis (1709), a roman à clef (published with a Key to its characters) in which she attacked various Whigs and people of note. She also wrote several plays. In 1711 she succeeded Swift as editor... |
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clef
clef (Lat. clavis, Fr. clef, key). Symbol normally placed at...indicate the exact location of a particular note on the staff; also placed at any point where new clef begins to operate. The treble clef places the note G above ... |
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treble clef
treble clef. The sign (derived from old letter G) which indicates that...and for right-hand pf. parts. For ten. v., treble clef is modified to indicate that notes are sounded octave lower than written. |
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clarinet
...the interval of a 12th). The notes of the instr.'s first octave...notated either in the treble clef and a 9th higher than the sound (Fr. method), or in the bass clef a 2nd above the sound (Ger. Method...are written for in the treble clef and are transposing ... |
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saxhorn
...transposing instr.: sometimes the bass clef is used, sometimes the treble clef showing the notes an octave higher than if the bass clef had been used. In each case, middle...represents the octave of the fundamental note. |
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C
C. First note of the natural scale, thus C♭, C♭♭, C♮, C...notated on the line below the treble staff. C clefs indicate position of middle C, e.g. alto and ten. clefs and sop. clef (obsolete). In SCTB, C = contralto. |
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F
F. Note of the scale, 4th degree of natural scale of C. Thus F♭, F...F’ is also an indication of transposing instr. on which written note C sounds as F (e.g. hn., F tpt.). The F clef is the bass clef. |
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notation and nomenclature
...to the scene.The naming of notes by letters of the alphabet goes...other mus. one of 5 lines. The clef derives from neum notation...lines as middle C or some other note, from which all the others...about its necessity. Definite notes, of different shapes ... |
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French horn
...convention existed whereby if notes occurred low enough to demand the use of the bass clef, they were written an octave...inserted as accidentals. Certain notes not in tune with the modern...in the bell (‘stopped notes’). (b) with valves... |
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time signature
...time signature. Sign placed after the clef and key-signature at the beginning of...measurement in relation to the whole-note, the upper indicating the number of those...signature 3/4 indicates three quarter-notes (crotchets) to the measure, one of 6/8 that there are six ... |
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trombone
...recognized slide positions, the 7 fundamental notes of harmonic series can be prod. a semitone apart. A few pedal notes can also be prod.: the first tones of...used, notated in either ten. or bass clef, with chromatic range from E below bass... |
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Clef Notes and Music Flash Cards
...61821. (217) 359-7099. Clef Notes: $39.95; Music Flash...Power Macintosh computers. Clef Notes is designed to improve the speed in identifying music notes as they are placed on the staff...treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs. ... |
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Clef Notes
...reading composers' biographies and hundreds of books about music history, theory and criticism. "After a couple of years of note taking, I decided that since I couldn't find the kind of book I was looking for, I would write it myself." The result... |
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Sarah Marie Mullen: Harper's Bizarre.(Clef Notes)(Sound recording...
...harp arrangement of "Planxty George Brabazon" and tosses in a couple of Shetland fiddle tunes. As Mullen observes in the notes, "wackiness ensues." Also represented is twentieth-century composer Carlos Salzedo; Mullen plays "Tango," from Salzedo... |
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Wet Wet Wet hit high note with Tartan Clef award
...fronted by Marti Pellow, picked up the top gong at the Tartan Clef awards held in Glasgow's Radisson SAS hotel last night...for Nordoff-Robbins, a music therapy charity, the Tartan Clefs recognise outstanding contribution to the music industry...with ballad 'Love is All Around', claimed the ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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THAT THING THEY DO DOO-WOP BAND THE G-CLEFS IS STILL ON A HIGH NOTE AFTER ALL...
...whose heyday was not so recent. The G-Clefs brothers Chris, Teddy, Ilanga, and Tim...scene out of another time when the G-Clefs took the stage. The Scott brothers and...As the performance stretched on, the Clefs' stage antics grew more flamboy ant... |
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Pantagruel.(Clef Notes)(Nymphidia: Court of the Faerie)(Sound recording...
PANTAGRUEL Nymphidia: Court of the Faerie Carpe Diem Records Pantagruel is an international early music ensemble specializing in renaissance music. They combine music research with their experience not only in classical music, but also in rock music, jazz, theatre and dance, and their performances |
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Bartholomew Faire.(Clef Notes)(The Red Book)(Sound recording review)
BARTHOLOMEW FAIRE The Red Book It is a wonderful thing to find a medieval and renaissance period collection that doesn't disappoint even once, and this CD is that. "The Red Book" is an older collection, first produced and recorded in 2003, but this music has lasted hundreds of years, and it is |
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Crannog.(Clef Notes)(Crannog III)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
CRANNOG Crannog III Crannog's third CD, named (not much mystery here) Crannog III," is a collection of the band's usual Celtic covers, with several really nice surprises. Most of the songs, featuring Frank O'Gara on fiddle, Michael Huebner on percussion, and Gabrielle Decker's concertina and |
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Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra.(Clef Notes)(Song of Solstice: Celtic...
JENNIFER CUTTING'S OCEAN ORCHESTRA Song of Solstice: Celtic Music for Midwinter The Christmas season is almost upon us and with it comes the onslaught of new holiday CDs. It's hard to find holiday songs for group singing that aren't either strongly Christian or trivial. To avoid excluding any |
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The Harper and the Minstrel: The Road to Lindemar.(Clef Notes)(Sound...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This all-instrumental collection by lay and Abby Michaels, together known as The Harper and the Minstrel, is surprisingly varied. Between them, the Michaels play Celtic harp, silver and divergent flute, recorder, penny whistle, bowed psaltery, and guitar, and all of them |
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