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A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies. [2] Dirges are often slow and bear the character of funeral marches.
With Dirge from Cymbeline for baritone and harp, written in 2007 for the NMC Songbook, Crosse resumed active composition. The Dirge was followed by a Trio for oboe, violin and cello (Rhyming with Everything) and a "Fantasia" for flute/recorder, harp and strings. Then came a stream of new works, both large scale and small.
A Dirge for Two Veterans: for male chorus, brass and percussion: words by Walt Whitman: Choral: 124: 1915: Dirge and Hymeneal: for female chorus and piano (or harp) words by Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Choral: 127: 1915: Nunc Dimittis: for mixed chorus a cappella: Choral: 128: 34/1: 1916: This Have I Done for My True Love: for mixed chorus a ...
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A tone hole is an opening in the body of a wind instrument which, when alternately closed and opened, changes the pitch of the sound produced. Tone holes may serve specific purposes, such as a trill hole or register hole. A tone hole is, "in wind instruments[,] a hole that may be stopped by the finger, or a key, to change the pitch of the tone ...
Jane’s Addiction playing Stanhope, New Jersey in 1991. From left, Dave Navarro on electric guitar, a Greek goddess on fruit, Eric Avery on bass guitar, and singer Perry Farrell on mouth.
The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments, capped double-reed instruments, and fipple flutes have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments (apart from those using pirouettes) and open flutes do not. The characteristics of a mouthpiece and ...
A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension. Machine heads are used on mandolins, guitars, double basses and others, and are usually located on the instrument's headstock. Other names for guitar tuners include pegs, gears ...