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  2. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    In a live music context, this is a slang term used by musicians to refer to the audio processing and amplification gear used by a keyboardist, bassist, or electric guitarist. An electric bassist, for example, may refer to her speaker cabinet, bass amplifier "head" and rack-mounted effects units collectively as her "rig" (or "bass rig").

  3. A Gaelic Blessing - Wikipedia

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    The organ accompaniment rests on a pattern of chords held often for a full measure in the left hand, and broken chords in eighth-notes in the right hand. The choir voices enter together, with the lower voices also moving slowly like the left hand (a full measure for "Deep", another one for "peace"), while the soprano pronounces "peace" sooner ...

  4. Peace (Horace Silver song) - Wikipedia

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    "Peace" is a composition by Horace Silver that was first recorded on August 29, 1959. It has become a jazz standard . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Silver also wrote lyrics for the tune.

  5. Bless This House (song) - Wikipedia

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    The words were written by Englishwoman Helen Taylor, under the original title "Bless the House". The music was composed by Australian May Brahe , a friend of Taylor's. One of the first artists to record the song was tenor John McCormack who recorded it on September 16, 1932 in London with Edwin Schneider on piano.

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Also an adjective to describe a singer or musician performing a note in which the intonation is an eighth or a quarter of a semitone too low. flautando Flutelike mode; used especially for string instruments to indicate a light, rapid bowing over the fingerboard flebile Feeble, low volume flessibile flexible [7] focoso or fuocoso Fiery (i.e ...

  7. Travelin' Prayer - Wikipedia

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    Joel wrote "Travelin' Prayer" about two years before it appeared on the album. [3] The song has four verses, the first of which is later repeated, and two instrumental breaks. [4] The lyrics offer a prayer that the singer's lover be protected until she returns to the singer. [4] The song has elements of country music, and is taken at a brisk ...

  8. Peace, Perfect Peace (hymn) - Wikipedia

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    Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]

  9. Pharoah Sanders - Wikipedia

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    Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane's groups in the mid-1960s ...