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    3.0.8 Ancient Music

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    a particular type of music. The lizard looks like a long black horn with holes. It sounds like relaxed and foggy at the same time. It is played by blowing into it and covering up the holes. it was not used in a particular type of music. The lute looks like a large violin without the curves. It sounds like its soft and relaxed. It is played by plucking the strings. It wasn’t used in a particular type of music. 3. Listen to the sound clip for each instrument. Which instrument’s sound do you

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    who teaches him sympathy(magic). His troupe is killed by the mythical Chandrian after the departure of Abenthy‚ Kvothe takes his father’s lute

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    POEM : On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! Leave melodizing on this wintry day‚ Shut up thine olden pages‚ and be mute: Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute‚ Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay Must I burn through; once more humbly assay The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit. Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion‚ Begetters of our deep eternal theme‚ When through the old oak forest I am

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    Inequality in the Newsroom

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    ed. New York‚ NY: Worth‚ 1998. 169. Jurkowitz‚ Mark. "The Media; More Women in J-School Doesn ’t Translate to Jobs" The Boston Globe 27 Aug. 2003: C1. LexisNexis Academic. Michigan State University Library‚ East Lansing‚ MI. 13 April 2005 . Lutes‚ Jean Marie. "Sob Sisterhood Revisited." American Literary History 15.3 (Fall 2003). 12 April 2005 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history /v01 5/15.3lutes.html. "Need for more women ’s representation in media stressed" The Pakistan

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    Bagpipe History

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    The bagpipe‚ although centuries old‚ remains quite popular throughout the decades‚ and is still played in areas like Scotland. The bagpipe is made using wooden structures as the pipes and a goat or sheep skin as the bag. To play‚ the piper squeezes the bag with his hand while a breath is taken into the mouthpiece‚ to allow the air to flow into the pipes facing outward. The harp is one of the earliest instruments made‚ dating back to the times before Christianity became a religion‚ and still is played

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    Development of erhu

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    culture of other regions‚ both sides learn from the musics of each other. The increased importance of the Silk Road in Tang Dynasty led more instruments of foreign cultures to enter China. In particular‚ this essay focuses on the transmission of spiked lutes and horsehair bowing from Central and Inner Asia to China‚ eventually leading to the formation of the erhu. The present-day erhu is a two-stringed bowed stringed instrument. It is played seated‚ with the spike extending upwards and played horizontally

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    skin stretched over a gourd or hollow body with gut strings stretched from this drum to the attached stick neck. These strings could be strummed like a banjo‚ plucked like a harp or even bowed. [pic] The musician on the left is playing a spike lute of the Jola in Senegal called an ekonting which has 3 strings and a gourd body. These early gourd instruments from Africa were most likely a result of innovation from individual instrument makers. Their designs remained a secret within their

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    the renaissance period

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    two keyboard instruments called the clavichord and virginal. In addition‚ many existing instruments were enhanced. The lute became the favored instrument of the time period‚ and it was established as the standard instrument for family music making during the 16th century.      Masses and motets were the primary forms for sacred vocal polyphony. These were accompanied by the lute or a small instrumental ensemble or consort. Secular vocal forms included motets‚ madrigals and songs‚ while instrumental

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    These minstrels were essentially a group of men that based their lives and income off of arts of music and poetry‚ and sang poems to accompany a harp‚ lute or another instrument. A minstrel was originally a servant and then would later be employed as an entertainer that traveled and provided music around all of Europe. After some time a minstrel was able to climb up the ranks and then provide music for

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    The Case of the Bambus

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    Story of the Gambus and its Evolution Yap Yuan Li Ben U0921231H AAI481 - Studies in Malay Music Nanyang Technological University The Story of the Gambus and its Evolution Introduction The gambus is an omnipresent and most commonly found lute instrument in the various styles of Malay folk music. It is usually made from wood and is formed almost like a guitar but with 9 to 12 wire strings compared to the guitar’s 6 to 12 strings. There are two types of gambus‚ namely Gambus Melayu which

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