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t. e. Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [1] [2] [3] However, definitions of music vary depending on culture, [4] though it is an aspect of all human societies and a cultural universal. [5]
Range (music) Written range of a saxophone. In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice, the equivalent is vocal range. The range of a musical part is the distance between its lowest and highest note .
The Happy Organ. " The Happy Organ " is an instrumental composition made famous by Dave "Baby" Cortez in 1959. Cortez co-composed it with noted celebrity photographer James J. Kriegsmann and frequent collaborator Ken Wood. A significant portion of the tune bears a strong resemblance to the traditional "Shortnin' Bread" tune.
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the American reed organ, the Indian harmonium, the physharmonica, and the seraphine. [1] The idea for the free reed was derived ...
C (musical note) C or Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz. The actual frequency has depended on historical pitch standards, and for transposing instruments a distinction is made ...
Éoline (French) Eolina (Italian) Echo Salicional (English) String. An extremely small scaled stop with a very delicate, airy tone; built frequently as a single-rank stop, or as a double-rank celeste. Baryton (French) Baritone (English) Baritono (Italian) Varitono (Spanish) Reed. A 16 ft, 8 ft and/or 4 ft pitch reed stop imitative of the ...
Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (BWV 553–560) possibly composed by Johann Tobias Krebs. Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) – possibly Bach's transcription of a violin work, or indeed a piece by another composer. Bairstow, Edward. Organ Sonata (1937) Beethoven, Ludwig van. Fugue in D major for organ, WoO 31 (1783)
