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    Regina Symphony Orchestra’s “Piano Poetry” involved a variety of trios and quartets and one suite that included piano, the flute, an oboe, cello, and violin. The purpose of this concert was to excite the audience for the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s very first piano festival. This performance took place on November 22nd at 2pm, located at the Government house. The players were Cherith Alexander on piano who was a guest appearance, Marie - Noelle Berthelet on the flute, Simon Fryer on the violoncello

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    Sumarian Beliefs

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    are made by assigning each note a specific pitch. Sumerian notation gives each note a certain interval followed by a number. This is confusing. Does the number mean that we play the interval a certain number of times? Do we play the same interval an octave apart at the exact same time? No one knows for sure. Most scholars do not think that it means to play the intervals simultaneously. That would make the music polyphonic. Polyphony in music was not truly seen until 1000 AD, 2000 years after Sumerian

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    On a scorching Saturday morning in Georgia, I tossed and turned in my bed as my slumber was interrupted by my dad screaming "Family meeting!". I cringed at the thought of being deprived of my favorite blue, plush blanket. I dragged myself down the steps and into the dining room that felt like a Russian winter on my skin. As I sat down, my dad looked guilty, curling his lip and clicking his fingernails against one another. He looked at my little brother Leslie, my oldest sister Kyra and me with a

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    The Baroque Era

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    It was usually complex and would dance around each other, they would commonly extend over two octaves. The melodies work together to play with one’s emotions and sequence was commonly used. In the theatrical aspects of Baroque period ornamentation was a practice that skilled opera singers would strive to accomplish which is improvising extras. Volume

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    What is the Clarinet?

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    clarinet. Johann Christoph Denner is given the most credit for making the clarinet which he made around in the sixteenth hundreds. J.C. Denner added two more keys to the chalumeau which was the first original clarinet by him doing this it increased it’s octave range. A chalumeau looks like a large recorder. The pitch of a clarinet can very from the musician, music, instrument, and mouthpiece. It is unknown where the clarinet was first made but resources say that it was either made in Germany or France

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    It was too cold a Spring morning in early November to be arriving at the venue of the Australian Musical Examinations Board, yet jubilant birds sang soothing tones high above in the tall trees, completely oblivious to the sense of impending misfortune that haunted the restive figure below them. Every possibility of failure seemed to ravish the cheery ambience of the practice room inside the warm studio. The Associate Diploma was a serious exam, and very subconsciously, Anna knew that failing would

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    Network Synthesis Essay

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    patch antenna on a mesh ground plane can provide the required isolation with the cabin interior. However because of the sub-wavelength dimensions of the armored windows at VHF and UHF frequencies a patch antenna, if feasible, cannot provide the one octave bandwidth required by the army radios. In this paper a monopole bow-tie antenna backed by a cavity (armored window) is proposed. Because of the limited thickness of the window glass, the radiation element and the transparent ground plane need to

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    Segregation and Women’s discrimination in Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple play a very important role. Back then is those days it was okay for a man to abuse his wife. Every man thought that they were more superior than their wife or any other woman. The story opens with a memory of Celie being commanded by her father to keep it a secret that he sexually abuses her. With Celie's mother being very ill he takes advantage of Celie and forbids her to tell anyone but God. With that being said it

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    Dares: A Short Story

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    tint suffused her brown skin, going on hyperventilation mode, from the look of her. "And I just saw the man upstairs trying to kill you?" Dare moved so fast that Alyse didn't see him shift. He was immediately before her. "Relax," his voice raised an octave, like how Kadirra did it, but Dare's command was sexier and just delish. His eyes seemed to scan her as a preliminary check up to see if she's okay. Mmmm…she could stand before him all day. Naked. Dammit. He’s in her head. "We'll talk more later

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    instruments. The melody of this section is written in major scale. It ascends to a point, then descends back down, this is an ostinato and is played twice before the next session starts. Williams incorporates a wide range of largest intervals and octaves throughout. This motif features 3 orchestral groups, strings, brass, and percussion, and they are each played differently, sometime even on a different beat. The percussion group and strings are played with a strict staccato in the background underneath

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