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  2. Focal dystonia - Wikipedia

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    For example, in focal hand dystonia, or writer's cramp, the fingers either curl into the palm or extend outward without control. In musicians, the condition is called musician's focal dystonia, or simply, musician's dystonia. In sports, it may be involved in what is commonly referred to as the yips. The condition appears to be associated with ...

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  4. Writer's cramp - Wikipedia

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    In fact, up to 20% of those with writer's cramp have a family member with some form of dystonia. [ 7 ] Musician's cramp (a similar focal dystonia which affects less than 1% of instrumentalists [ 10 ] ) has historically been grouped together with writer's cramp because of this and their common task-specificity.

  5. Maenad - Wikipedia

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    Chalcomede – when she followed Dionysus in his Indian campaign, the Indian general Morrheus, hit by one of Eros' arrows, fell in love with her, and when he was about to seize her a serpent darted out of her bosom to protect her. [20] Charopeia – leader of the Bacchic dance. She followed Dionysus in his Indian campaign.

  6. Jazz hands - Wikipedia

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    Jazz hands in performance dance is the extension of a performer's hands with palms toward the audience and fingers splayed. This position is also referred to as webbing. It is commonly associated with especially exuberant types of performance such as musicals, cheerleading, show choir, revue, and especially jazz dance shows. [1]

  7. List of mudras (dance) - Wikipedia

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    One of the most striking features of Indian classical dance and dances of Thailand, [1] Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and the Malay world is the use of hand gestures. Speaking in dance via gestures in order to convey outer events or things visually is what mudras do. To convey inner feelings, two classifications of mudras (hand or finger gesture) are ...

  8. Music-specific disorders - Wikipedia

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    Temporal organization of music is commonly referred to as "rhythm". In 1982 the neuroscientist Fraisse claimed that there are mainly two types of time relations that are fundamental to musical temporal organization: (1) "the segmentation of an ongoing sequence into temporal groups" based on the duration values (in musical terms a whole, half ...

  9. Sydenham's chorea - Wikipedia

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    The fingers can move as if playing the piano. There may be tongue fasciculations ("bag of worms") and motor impersistence , for example, the "milkmaid sign" (grip strength fluctuates, as if hand milking a cow), or inability to sustain tongue protrusion (called jack-in-the-box tongue [ 5 ] or serpentine tongue, [ 6 ] as the tongue slides in and ...