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Letter A
This letter A is enclosed in a box with two skeletal images in the background that seem to be playing music. ... |
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Letter A
This letter A is enclosed in a box with two skeletal images in the background that seem to be playing music. ... |
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Accubatio
"The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always... |
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Allan-a-Dale
Played songs and music that could be heard throughout Greenwood. ... |
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Ancient Egyptian Music
This image shows a group of ancient egyptian street musicians. (1) Woman with a tall light harp with fourteen strings. (2) Cithara. (3) Te-bouni, or banjo. (4) Double flute. (5) Shoulder Harp. (6) Sin... |
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Apollo
God of Music... |
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Apollo
Greek god of music... |
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Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, ... |
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Statue of Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, ... |
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Ascaron
Ascaron... |
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Aslog and Heimir
In Norse mythology, Aslog, daughter of Siegfried and Brunhild, becomes an orphan and is adopted by an old harp player, Heimir. Concerned about her safety, Heimir hides Aslog in his harp.... |
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Assorted Musical Instruments
Ancient forms of the harp, drum, flute, and castanets.... |
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Assyrian Music
The Assyrians held music in honor, and empoyed it for liturgical purposes, as well as those of social and private life. Among the discoveries at Nineveh and Babylon are many of a musical character. S... |
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Athenian Monument
"Monument commemorating the triumph of an Athenian citizen in music," Lysicrates. -Breasted, 1914... |
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Aulos
"Roman Ivory Aulos found at Pompeii, showing slides and rings." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... |
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Aulos Mouthpiece
"Beak mouthpiece. Found at Pompeii." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... |
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Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) German musician.... |
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Bagpipe
Known by the ancients as tibiae utriculariae, offers the first example of the storage of compressed air.... |
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Bagpipe
A musical instrument used in Scotland.... |
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Bagpipe
A music wind instrument consisting of a leathern bag, which receives air from the mouth or from the bellows, and of pipes, into which the air is pressed from the bag by the performer's elbow. ... |
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Bagpipe
The bagpipe is a wind instrument used among the ancient Greeks but is known as a Scottish and Irish instrument.... |
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Ancient Persian Bagpipe
"Ancient Persian Bag-pipes" — Encyclopediia Britannica, 1910... |
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Highland Bagpipe
Often present a gamut which appears to us grotesque, without subdominate, or incomplete, manfestly vestige of ancient tonalities now abandoned, and in this aspect they are historixally of intrest... |
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Highland Bagpipe
"Bagpipe, a musical wind-instrument of very great antiquity, having been used among the ancient Greeks, and being a favorite instrument over Europe generally in the fifteenth century." -Vaughan, 1906... |
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Balalaika
A Russian musical instrument with a triangular body and three strings that produces sounds similar to those of a mandolin.... |