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musical instruments

(Encyclopedia)musical instruments are classified in various ways, but the system devised in 1914 by Kurt Sachs and E. M. von Hornbostel has been accorded recognition by both anthropologists and musicologists becaus...

bell, musical instrument

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Bell bell, in music, a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow metal vessel, often cup-shaped with an outward-flaring rim, damped at one end and set into vibration by a blow from a clappe...

musical comedy

(Encyclopedia)musical comedy: see musicals.

musical glasses

(Encyclopedia)musical glasses: see harmonica (2.) ...

musical notation

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Musical notation musical notation, symbols used to make a written record of musical sounds. Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of anc...

synthesizer, musical

(Encyclopedia)synthesizer, musical: see electronic music. ...

catgut

(Encyclopedia)catgut or gut, cord made from the intestines of various animals (especially sheep and horses, but not cats). The membrane is chemically treated, and slender strands are woven together into cords of gr...

Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod

(Encyclopedia)Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod: see eisteddfod. ...

Lachenmann, Helmut

(Encyclopedia)Lachenmann, Helmut, 1935–, German composer, b. Stuttgart. One of the most influential European composers of the late 20th and early 21st cents., he studied in Venice with Luigi Nono (1958–60) and ...

Jubal

(Encyclopedia)Jubal jo͞oˈbăl [key], in the Bible, son of Lamech and originator of musical instruments. ...