Also known as a luftpause, it is a symbol used in musical notation. It directs the performer of the music passage to take a breath or to make a slight pause. This pause is normally intended to shorten the duration of the preceding note and not the tempo; in this function, it can be...
* binary: a musical form in two sections: AB * bird's eye: a slang term for fermata, which instructs the performer to hold a note or chord as long as they wish * bis (Lat): twice; i.e., repeat the relevant action or passage * bisbigliando: whispering; i.e., a special tremol...
Like the setting of Karmen Geï, Guinea-Bissau, a small nation nestled between Senegal and Guinea in West Africa, also has its roots in the Mali Empire and is known as the Slave Coast that cajoles bitter memories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade—a past that Gomes hoped to use his ...
Baroque - Once used as a term of critical disapproval, the word 'baroque' is now used in music to designate a period of musical history from about 1600 to about 1750, although any such periodisation in history can only be a rough guide. In musicology the term was borrowed from the his...
Mangold is well known for directing other musical biopics, such as Walk the Line (2005), which focused on the lives and careers of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. He even incorporates Johnny as a prominent character in Dylan’s film, so there is a correlation between the two films. ...
Flat. Flat symbol is used to lower the pitch of a note by a half step. It is the opposite of the sharp symbol which raises the pitch. The same rules apply for black and white keys as described for the sharp symbol; Double flat. This term refers to a decrease in pitch by two semi...
Successful formation of long-term declarative memory is influenced, among other things, by attention, emotion, and deviation from expectations. A unique fo
Yes, there are irritating, long-winded moments but Peter Dinklage as Cyrano has a way of balancing the sweetness of the romance with a wry wit. And once the tears started, the rest of the film built on that emotion. So I admit, I got into a musical romance. ...
The term is also a unit of volume measure, specifically 31 gallons of a fermented or distilled beverage, or 42 gallons of a petroleum product. According to the 1st-century-ad Roman historian Pliny the Elder, the ancient craft of barrel making, also called cooperage, was invented by the ...
the basically chordal style alsofacilitatedthe emergence of virtuosity in the modern sense of the term, especially among keyboard artists. But as the singer and composerGiulio Caccinidemonstrated in the preface to his influential collectionLe nuove musiche(The New Music; 1602), singers, too, put ...