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A book playing a large Gavioli fairground organ. Book music ( French: Livre de musique) is a medium for storing the music played on mechanical organs, mainly of European manufacture. Book music is made from thick cardboard, containing perforated holes specifying the musical notes to be played, with the book folded zig-zag style.
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 .
Voluntary (music) In music a voluntary is a piece of music, usually for an organ, that is played as part of a church service. In English-speaking countries, the music played before and after the service is often called a 'voluntary', whether or not it is so titled. The title 'voluntary' was often used by English composers during the late ...
Organ stop. The choir division of the organ at St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque, Iowa. Shown here are several ranks of pipes, each of which would be controlled from one of the stops on the console. An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes.
A positive organ (also positiv organ, positif organ, portable organ, chair organ, or simply positive, positiv, positif, or chair) (from the Latin verb ponere, "to place") is a small, usually one-manual, pipe organ that is built to be more or less mobile. It was common in sacred and secular music between the 10th and the 18th centuries, in ...
Baroque music ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / or US: / bəˈroʊk /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style ). The Baroque period is divided into ...
Jenny Smyth (organ) Debora Cohen (guitar) Shmoo Ritchie (bass) Shelby Stocks (drums) Past members. Ashley Webber (bass) 2001–2005. Sarah Efron. The Organ was a Canadian post-punk band formed in Vancouver in 2001. They officially broke up in 2006 due to illness and personal conflicts in the band.
