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The piccolo (/ ˈ p ɪ k ə l oʊ / PIK-ə-loh; Italian for 'small') [1] [2] is a smaller version of the western concert flute [a] and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute , the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the standard transverse flute , [ 3 ] but ...
Parnasianism, named after its first appearance in the magazine "Le Parnasse Contemporain" (1866–1876), is a literary style that postulates art for art's sake, far from the important and sentimental ambitions that Romanticism defended. Those in favor tried to create "beautiful objects", approaching exotic subjects and ornamenting them with a ...
The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .
Named after its first known owner. Boissier-Sarasate: 1690 Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Named after its owner, this violin is one of two Stradivarius instruments which previously belonged to Navarrese musician Pablo de Sarasate. [33] Ex-Ries: 1691 Reinhold Würth Music Foundation On loan to József Lendvay Jr. since 2008 ...
Spanish literature (26 C, 73 P) M. Spanish-language literature about Mesoamerica (9 P) Mexican literature (18 C, 11 P) N. Nicaraguan literature (1 C, 3 P)
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
Piccolo Teatro (Milan), Italy's first permanent theatre; Il Piccolo, the daily newspaper of the region of Trieste, Italy; Piccolo, a Yugoslavian film; Piccolo, an Indian Marathi-language film; Piccolo, a 1977 release by the Ron Carter Quartet; Piccolo Summit, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada; 1366 Piccolo, an asteroid