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  2. Shave and a Haircut - Wikipedia

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    Shave and a Haircut" and the associated response "two bits" is a seven-note musical call-and-response couplet, riff or fanfare popularly used at the end of a musical performance, usually for comedic effect. It is used melodically or rhythmically, for example as a door knocker.

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A musical form in which a certain section returns repeatedly, interspersed with other sections: ABACA is a typical structure or ABACABA roulade (Fr.) A rolling (i.e. a florid vocal phrase) rubato Stolen, robbed (i.e. flexible in tempo), applied to notes within a musical phrase for expressive effect ruhig (Ger.) Calm, peaceful run

  4. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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    ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.

  5. Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge is an American old-time radio musical quiz program starring Kay Kyser. It was broadcast on Mutual , NBC , and ABC beginning on February 1, 1938, and ending on July 29, 1949.

  6. Swish cymbal - Wikipedia

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    The current Zildjian Swish Knocker is a redesign of their original swish, with more rivets, deeper bow and shallower bell, based on a cymbal made famous by Mel Lewis, [1] who coined the name knocker. Originally a Zildjian exclusive, both swish and pang cymbals disappeared from their catalog for a time but have reappeared.

  7. Clef - Wikipedia

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    A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff. Placing a clef on a staff assigns a particular pitch to one of the five lines or four spaces, which defines the pitches on the remaining lines and spaces.

  8. Clue (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Clue had previously been adapted for the screen as the 1985 black comedy film of the same name and was the basis of the British television game show Cluedo, which ran from 1990 to 1993. After theatrical tryouts in Baltimore in 1995 and Chicago in 1996, the musical ran off-Broadway in 1997, receiving mostly unfavorable reviews.

  9. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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    The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin) [1] is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. [1] It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale steps below the marked note and "slide" upward—that is, move stepwise diatonically between the initial and ...