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Orchestral Instruments (m11897)
Keywords: bassoon, brass, clarinet, flute, French horn, horn, musical instruments, oboe, orchestra, strings, trombone, trumpet, tuba, wind instruments, winds, woodwinds
Summary: An introduction to the instruments of the modern Western orchestra.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 99.87%
Revised: 2006-05-02
Revisions: 2
Standing Waves and Wind Instruments (m12589)
Keywords: aerophones, brass, harmonics, harmonic series, music acoustics, pipes, standing waves, waves, woodwinds
Summary: The musical sounds of aerophones (woodwinds and brass) are created by standing waves in the air inside the instruments.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 98.77%
Revised: 2007-08-01
Revisions: 7
A Short History of Wind Bands (m14566)
Keywords: band, brass, music, wind ensemble, woodwinds
Summary: A summary of the history of the ensembles that led to the modern concert, marching, and jazz bands of the U.S.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 87.02%
Revised: 2007-06-04
Revisions: New
Keys and Scales are Sets (m11805)
Keywords: intersection, keys, major scales, music, national math standard sets, national music standard 5, national music standard 8, scales, set intersection, sets
Summary: Lesson plan, designed for grades 6-8, for a math-music interdisciplinary activity that use musical keys and scales to give students a chance to practice identifying sets and intersections of sets.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 99.54%
Revised: 2008-10-14
Revisions: 6
Transposition: Changing Keys (m10668)
Summary: Transposition, or changing the key of a piece of music, can be useful and is sometimes necessary to make music more singable or playable. Music is transposed by raising or lowering every note by the same interval.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 99.82%
Revised: 2007-02-14
Revisions: 14
Major Keys and Scales (m10851)
Keywords: keys, major keys, major scales, scales
Summary: A scale is a list of all the notes in a key. Major scales all follow the same interval pattern.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 99.96%
Revised: 2009-04-24
Revisions: 22
Minor Keys and Scales (m10856)
Keywords: dorian minor, harmonic minor, keys, melodic minor, minor keys, minor scales, natural minor, scales
Summary: The interval pattern for minor scales is different from that of major scales. Every minor key shares a key signature with its relative major. There are three common types of minor scales: natural minor, melodic minor, and harmonic minor. Jazz also commonly uses a "dorian minor".
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 99.99%
Revised: 2007-10-03
Revisions: 19
[ mini-project ] Risset Bell Synthesis (m15476)
Author: Ed Doering
Keywords: additive synthesis, amplitude trajectory, bell, envelope generator, frequency trajectory, LabVIEW, partial
Summary: Additive synthesis builds up complex sounds from simple sounds (sinusoids). Additive synthesis implies more than just doing Fourier series, though: each sinusoidal component is assigned its own frequency and amplitude trajectory (resulting in a partial), so complex, time-varying sounds can be generated by summing these partials together. In this ... computer music.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 65.89%
Revised: 2007-11-06
Revisions: New
Timbre Activities (m14259)
Keywords: color, harmonics, instruments, music, national art standard 6, national music standard 6, national music standard 7, national music standard 8, national music standard 9, timbre
Summary: Suggestions for introducing the concept of timbre (musical color) to young children.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 93.60%
Revised: 2008-08-11
Revisions: 3
Keyboard Instruments (m14567)
Keywords: harpsichord, instruments, music, organ, piano, spinet
Summary: A short introduction to the musical instruments that are played using a keyboard.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 98.05%
Revised: 2007-06-22
Revisions: 2
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