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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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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A harpsichord, an instrument used in numerous Baroque pieces, often accompanied these works. ... Some examples are as follows: in the piece "D'un soir triste,"" she used a muted tam-tam crash, bass drums, off-beat notes on a harp, and several percussion; in the piece "D'un matin de printemps,"" she used orchestrations such as lightly tapped and brushed snare drums (Lace, 3). ...

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