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In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, up to five, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to ...
Manual (music) The console of the Great Organ at the Church of St Sulpice built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in 1862. An electronic organ with three manuals. The two lower manuals are each five octaves in range, while the uppermost manual spans two octaves. A manual is a musical keyboard designed to be played with the hands, on an instrument such ...
s–1970. ( 1970) s. Past members. (see list of members) The Wrecking Crew is a loose collective of US session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for a great number of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognized in their era, but were viewed ...
- The First Call Gang, The Clique
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- 1960s–1970s
- (see list of members)
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 Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. [1] The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods. [2] Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music but a more varying use of musical form, which is, in simpler terms, the rhythm and organization of any given piece of music.
422.112. (Double-reed instrument with conical bore) Related instruments. Oboe. Bassoon. Biniou. The bombard ( Breton: bombard, talabard, French: bombarde) is a contemporary family of oboes widely used to play traditional Breton music, where it is considered emblematic. A bombard player is known as a talabarder .
Prelude (music) A prelude ( German: Präludium or Vorspiel; Latin: praeludium; French: prélude; Italian: preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. [1] [2] While, during the Baroque era, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer and ...
