For example, percussion lessons and lessons with musical instruments might improve one's sense of rhythm. An actor might also be required to play a musical instrument (or a musician to act), so knowledge of music and its effect should be considered. ... Further, the range of possible instruments is huge, encompassing drums (large, pot shaped, cymbals, snares), the voice, strings, winds, percussion instruments (conch shells, ankle and knee bells, rattles, gongs) and modern instruments, such as the harmonium, clarinet, saxophone or violin. ...

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Revolutionizing music, Pythagoras" findings generated theorems and standards for musical scales, relationships, instruments and creative formation. ... Instrument makers began a precision approach to device construction. ... This sparked a revolution in the construction of melodic percussive instruments, as well as the wind instruments. ... The circumstances around Pythagoras" discovery in relation to strings and their resonance is astounding, and these catalyzed the production of stringed instruments. ... His conceptualization and experimentation molded modern musical practices, instruments, ...

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The Andean people were familiar with instrument making long before the Spanish Conquest of the sixteenth century. There were a wide variety of wind and percussion instruments which defined musical life in the Andes. ... Later came the brass instruments which formed the first mariachi bands of Mexico and Cuba [Figure 6]. ... The guitar became, rather, the instrument of Spanish men. ... This instrument, known as the "charango-, was the favorite string instrument of southern Peru and Bolivia. ...

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The instruments heard were the same ones that were used for all other kinds of musical activities, the aulos, a wind instrument with two pipes, percussion and string instruments as the lyre which also coloured musically the poems of epic poets like Homer. ...

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In historical and musicological terms, contemporary music can refer to the modern forms of art music where the artist uses emotion and expressions in making music with sometime employing the use of alternative style and various kinds of musical and percussion instruments. ... The standard orchestral instruments were established during the Classical era that became the most common instruments which included; violins, flutes and trumpets, but during the first part of the classical period a harpsichords was a popular instrument. The invention of a piano however replaced it and the woodwind secti...

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The events of Hara-kiri can be contextualized within a span of time that saw both the end of decades of war and the unification of Japan. The Shogun of the newly unified of Japan had the momentous task of designing a social and legal system that would prevent the usurpation of power by the many frin...

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