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  Tone
Nonchord tone A nonchord tone is a tone in a piece of resolve.
Shepard tone A Shepard tone is a M.C. Escher's Ascending and Descending) or a barber's pole, the basic concept is shown...
Tone District, Gunma Tone (利根郡; -gun) is a Japan.
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 Quarter tone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A quarter tone is an interval half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which is half a whole tone.
In equal temperament the quarter tone is 50 cents or 2
A three-quarter tone may also be considered half of a minor third.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quarter_tone   (148 words)

  
 Quarter tone -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A quarter tone is an (The difference in pitch between two notes) interval half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a (The musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument) semitone, which is half a (A musical interval of two semitones) whole tone.
In (The division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones) equal temperament the quarter tone is 50 (A fractional monetary unit of several countries) cents or 2
In 24 tone equal temperament, or the quarter tone scale, it is the smallest (The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down) step.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/quarter_tone.htm   (227 words)

  
 List of quarter tone pieces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quaternion for cello quartet, two of the cellos are tuned down a quarter tone
À RichardWagner, for baritone and 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op.
Chants surNietzsche (2), for baritone and 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op.
www.therfcc.org /list-of-quarter-tone-pieces-257403.html   (154 words)

  
 Quarter Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And while the injury he suffered in the third quarter wasn't deemed serious, it got...
We would characterize the tone of the discussions with the various parties to be...
The Wallaces, Ben and Rasheed, set the defensive tone early in the fourth quarter with two blocks each, and the Pistons finished with seven blocks.
www.wikiverse.org /quarter-tone   (234 words)

  
 John Greschak - Polytempo Music: An Annotated Bibliography
Pieces for which more than one tempo might be perceived but for which all parts are written against a common tempo, no tempo markings are specified, or performers are instructed to deviate freely from specified tempi (e.g.
Pieces have been excluded for which multi-rate effects are written with proportional notation (also called: spatial notation, time-space notation, proportionate notation or analog notation) and no tempo markings are given.
Pieces have been excluded for which the score appears to indicate different simultaneous tempi but it is generally believed that the composer did not intend this to be the case.
www.greschak.com /polytempo/ptbib.htm   (20203 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Category:Lists of pieces
The following are lists of pieces, where "pieces" here are defined as composed music with no lyrics.
improvements regarding listing and categorization of music pieces are presently discussed at Category talk:Musical compositions.
List of pieces which use the whole tone scale
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Category:Lists_of_pieces   (217 words)

  
 Recording Institute Of Detroit Audio RecordingTerms Glossary
Reference Tones - A term with the same meaning as the term Test Tones (a recording of several single-frequency tones at the beginning of a tape reel at the magnetic reference level that will be used to record the program).
Tone – 1) One of several single-frequency signals at the beginning of a tape reel at the magnetic reference level that will be used to record the program.
Tone Arm - The pivoting arm mounted to the base of a turntable to hold the phono cartridge and allow it to advance across the phonograph record during playback.
recordingeq.com /GlosPubPT.htm   (13304 words)

  
 Profiles 41 - Romance Comics (Jan 2001)
If the tone writers and artists sought required the Loving Husband to die saving the world from the Hun so that his bereaved could get maudlin and reflect on an idealized version of a short yet intense marriage, they could slaughter with impunity.
Ignore the nihilism of twentieth-century classical prose pieces like Kafka's "The Metamorphosis;" the rogue and the vampire (in the old sense of the term, used to label a woman as greedy and parasitic) either found themselves alone, or in jail, or even dead.
A multi-tiered attack ultimately caused the romance comics, after a quarter of a century, to disappear from the news racks.
www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/niven/142/profiles/pro41.html   (2171 words)

  
 Definition of tone
A semitone is half a whole tone or a [[minor second]], the ratio 16:15, or the in...
The possible tones are as boundless as the number of possible [[emo...
For example a typical tone cluster could be the tones C, C#, D, D#, E, F, held at the same time.
www.wordiq.com /dictionary/tone.html   (661 words)

  
 [No title]
Since each level should indicate a growth that is built on previously mastered levels, the prospective transfer student will be able to use this document to monitor their progress toward being to the level expected upon entering Ole Miss.
The expectations represented are only the minimal amount of material that would be expected for a student to receive a letter grade of C (a grade lower than C does not satisfy graduation requirements for the music major) and pass to the next level.
With the approval of the instructor, SAXN 122 may be taken by the non-major or non-saxophone principal whose level of ability meets the requirements for exiting SAXN 121.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/music/courses/SAXSyll.doc   (1873 words)

  
 Lifechanges ... Delayed: November 2003
As the amplitude of the low-frequency tone was increased to a point where it approached the high-frequency tone it reached a point where the two tones were two similar for the dolphin to tell the difference.
My list of Harry Potter in translation was mentioned by Languagehat yesterday, garnering me more hits than any previous day.
Because of what happened to the family, only two pieces of furniture are known to have been in the house in the 1860s, although the rest are authentic to the period.
lifechange.blogspot.com /2003_11_01_lifechange_archive.html   (11625 words)

  
 ITG 2003 Ibrahim Maalouf
His performance captured the humor and light character of the piece, and his phrasing in the muted middle movement was beautiful.
His grasp of the jazz influence in the piece did not go unnoticed, and his control over the sudden shifts in dynamics often made it seem as though the audience was listening to two players in tandem.
The performances of the recital pieces were certainly first-rate, but the audience showed much interest in Maalouf’s performances of the traditional music on his second half.
www.trumpetguild.org /2003conference/sat/404.html   (771 words)

  
 Welcome To Mechantiques   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We handle a lot of pieces, and often an item will sell directly to a customer on our "wanted" list before it ever appears on a sales list.
This is the first 20 ¾” model that we have had in perhaps 4 — 5 years (see the Asheville Collection list for the second one we have had in 4 — 5 years, they are both in stock at the moment!).
Has a circular mirrored concave piece, small mirrored pieces like a dance hall rotating mirror ball, and a “globe” or “lantern shade” style piece with jewel glass pieces, with a light bulb inside it.
www.mechantiques.com   (6660 words)

  
 List of Puerto Rican companies - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about List of Puerto Rican companies
List of Puerto Rican companies is not available in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
List of Public Service Corporation of New Jersey precursors
List of Puerto Rican phrases, words and slangs
encyclopedia.farlex.com /List+of+Puerto+Rican+companies   (114 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I will closely study and analyze pieces of music of varying styles that, one way or another, convey some kind of feeling or sensation to the listener.
This can be an intentional decision on the part of the composer, but it does not have to be: while some pieces are created with the explicit goal of imparting a specific feeling on the listener (for ex.
This is by no means a complete list, as more conventions will be discovered over the course of the analysis.
academic.evergreen.edu /t/tholor28   (568 words)

  
 List of Ship Kits
Graeme is a newcomer to the list as of late 2005, but he's no newcomer to the world of ship modeling.
The Arado seaplane's struts are molded in one piece, similar to the float-equipped British Spitfire, and the Iron Cross insignia are molded into the wings, ala Aurora.
The hull is also in one piece, and seems to follow the ideosyncratic hull form of the Yamato class quite nicely.
www.quuxuum.org /rajens_list/shiprevs.html   (13486 words)

  
 collectiveSome
My fiddle teacher was there in the room with me. At some point, the 'short list' had been whittled down to three and she asked me to step outside, to close the flamed-maple door of the practice room, and simply listen to her play the three instruments.
A long time ago I promised to write a piece called 'why blogging is a crock.' It had do to with my sense that blogs had re-created -- in an incomplete way -- 'computer conferencing' from fifteen years before.
The organization’s 13 programmers are hard at work on a piece of software that could change the way we manage our digital lives, curing the headaches of having to juggle the dozens of types of information stored on personal computers by a variety of applications—and, Kapor hopes, makin
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 Bangkok Post Friday 05 August 2005 - A raucous good time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In pieces like Hallowe'en, and In Re Con Moto et at both only a couple of minutes long, he allows the music to work itself into a cacophonous frenzy before calling it to a halt with a sudden, cornily conventional ending, which is then in turn dismissed with a kick-in-the-pants final gesture.
Also composed toward the end of his career as a composer (they date from 1924, although Ives lived for another 30 years) are the Three Quarter Tone Pieces for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart.
Each of the three pieces uses the microtonal tuning with great imagination to achieve a range of strikingly beautiful musical effects _ the misty harmonies of the first piece, the racing quarter-tone chromatic scales in the ragtime second movement.
www.bangkokpost.com /en/050805_Realtime/05Aug2005_real72.php   (845 words)

  
 [No title]
While it too is a piece for two pianos, it is tuned for two pianos a quarter tone apart.
This tuning is also known as 24 tone equal temperament, which has nothing to do with just intonation and the harmonic series.
By doing that, your list will have some actual content, and possibly form the seed for a discussion, rather than be a rote enumeration.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v02.n563   (2417 words)

  
 Cakewalk
Clicks Per Quarter Note), for sake and ease of programming (we’ll tweak it later…); you can set the tempo to whatever works for you; let’s stick to 4/4 time.
Sometimes making the notes at “060” open hats (or vice versa when open hats are used as quarter notes) gives a sloppier sound to the hat.
Change the Clicks Per Quarter Note to 960 and hit OK. By upping the time base of the project you are giving yourself more resolution for the edits that we have coming up, essentially you will now have a more room to groove.
www.cakewalk.com /Tips/TechTipFeb02_1-joboj.asp   (1757 words)

  
 What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?
One tends to hear the arguments in bits and pieces, for example the emphatic if vague claim that people are different.
An underlying notion of conservative politics is that words and phrases of language are like territory in warfare: owned and controlled by one side or the other.
One of the central goals of conservatism, as for example with Newt Gingrich's lists of words, is to take control of every word and phrase in the English language.
polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/conservatism.html   (12115 words)

  
 List of microtonal music on CD
The title piece is in her Alpha and Beta tuning, another piece in Gamelan tuning and ones using a harmonic scale.
Four longer pieces in 34, 19 and 12-tone equal temperament with electronic space effects and one duet on fretless guitar with John Starrett on StarrBoard.
Eighteen tones of the 2nd manual are tuned a quarter-tone higher or lower.
www.xs4all.nl /~huygensf/doc/discs.html   (10375 words)

  
 Beautiful Horizons
Also, listing the death penalty as a human rights abuse of the United States is at best iffy.
The ATCA was first used successfully in the area of human rights law in the Filartiga Case in 1980 in which a woman successfully sued a Paraguayan official - who had fled to Brooklyn - responsible for the death of her brother under torture in Paraguay.
Adding to their list of abonimable atrocities, the military dictatorship in Myanmar is being accused of systemizing rape against women from ethinic minority groups in Burma: the Karen, Karenni, Mon, Tavoyan and the Shans.
beautifulhorizons.blogspot.com /2003_05_01_beautifulhorizons_archive.html   (13511 words)

  
 Letter L Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of NATO reporting names for hunter-killer and experimental submarines
List of neighborhoods of the District of Columbia by ward
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article List of Nevada Governors.
www.mauspfeil.net /L_448.html   (131 words)

  
 Amazon.com: 20th Century Music for Two Pianos (2000): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking piece the "The Rite of Spring" is considered the most famous and groundbreaking composition of the early twentieth century.
This DVD also includes the option of viewing running commentaries on the pieces as they are performed as well as liner notes, a glossary of music terms, historical markers for the pieces, and performer profiles.
The piece requires that one of the pianos be tuned a quarter-tone sharp, and I was hoping to see how they managed to make this happen and still have the pianos conventionally tuned for the pieces preceding and following.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305884374?v=glance   (1308 words)

  
 OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW YEAR'S READS.
This is a magazine that's entirely comprised of notes, grocery lists, pictures and loads of other random crap people find, hence the name.
Yeah, it's a little pricey for only three issues a year, but Found is one of those rare publications that has an ability to captivate with its heartfelt simplicity each time you read it.
In the last quarter, revenue was down 25% year-over-year and business is so bad that General Media, the parent company of Penthouse, has declared bankruptcy.
blacktable.com /mags031210.htm   (1920 words)

  
 Saxophone Auditions - School of Music - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - The University of Iowa
Two contrasting solo pieces (one lyrical and one technical) with or without piano.
You may choose compositions from this list, or choose works that are of similar difficulty.
It is important to choose works that showcase your strengths as a musician.
www.uiowa.edu /~music/bios/departments/saxophone_auditions.htm   (213 words)

  
 UI Saxophone Studio Audition Information
- Two contrasting solo pieces (one lyrical and one technical) with or without piano.
When pieces with piano are chosen, please bring an accompanist if possible.
ou may choose compositions from this list, or choose works that are of similar difficulty.
www.uiowa.edu /~musicsax/audition.html   (170 words)

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