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Celesta

Index Celesta

The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. [1]

173 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera), Akhnaten (opera), Alex Trebek, Amelia Goes to the Ball, An American in Paris, Ariadne auf Naxos, Arlecchino (opera), Art Fleming, Art Tatum, Baby It's You, Ballet, Basin Street Blues, Béla Bartók, Be Myself, Benjamin Britten, Biophilia (album), Björk, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Greco, Buddy Holly, C (musical note), Cadenza, Capitol Records, Carl Orff, Carmina Burana (Orff), Cherish (The Association song), Children's television series, Climax Blues Band, Close to You (Frank Sinatra album), Coda (music), Columbia Records, Composer, Conrad Susa, Danny Federici, Das Lied von der Erde, Der Mond, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dmitri Shostakovich, Doktor Faust, Duke Ellington, Dulcitone, E Street Band, Earl Hines, Eels (band), Electric piano, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Ernest Chausson, Every Single Night, Everyday (Buddy Holly song), ..., Fats Waller, Ferde Grofé, Ferruccio Busoni, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, Fred Rogers, Gamelan, Gene Wilder, George Gershwin, Giacomo Puccini, Gian Carlo Menotti, Girl Don't Tell Me, Glockenspiel, Go Quiet, Grand Canyon Suite, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, Harry Potter (film series), Herbie Hancock, I'll Never Smile Again, Idiophone, In the Wee Small Hours, Incidental music, Jónsi, Jeopardy!, John Williams, Johnny Costa, Karol Szymanowski, Keith Jarrett, Keyboard glockenspiel, Keyboard instrument, Keyboard section, L'enfant et les sortilèges, L'heure espagnole, Louis Armstrong, Maggie May, Magnet and Steel, Maurice Bouchor, Maurice Ravel, McCoy Tyner, Meade Lux Lewis, Memphis Slim, Merv Griffin, Mine for Me, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Morton Feldman, Mother (Pink Floyd song), Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Musical keyboard, Neptune, Nick Drake, Northern Sky, Novocaine for the Soul, Octave, Ogg, Opera, Orchestra, Oscar Peterson, Paris, Percussion instrument, Philip Glass, Piano, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd – The Wall, Pinocchio (1940 film), Progressive rock, Pump organ, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Raw Power, RCA, Resonator, Rhythm of the Rain, Richard Strauss, Rod Stewart, Schiedmayer, Schott Music, She's a Rainbow, Sheryl Crow, Sigur Rós, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Staff (music), Steven Wilson, Sun Ra, Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground song), Symphonic poem, Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski), Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 6 (Mahler), Symphony No. 8 (Mahler), Takk..., Tarkus (song), The Association, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Cascades (band), The Gnome, The Magic Flute, The Nutcracker, The Planets, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Tempest, The Turn of the Screw (opera), The Velvet Underground, The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad), The West Wing, Thelonious Monk, Timbre, Tosca, Transformations (opera), Transposing instrument, Tuning fork, W. G. Snuffy Walden, Walter Egan, William Shakespeare, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Yamaha Corporation, 1930s in film, 1940s in film, 1940s in music, 1950s in film, 1971 in film. Expand index (123 more) »

A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Akhnaten (opera)

Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983.

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Alex Trebek

George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality.

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Amelia Goes to the Ball

Amelia al ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball) is a one-act opera buffa by Gian Carlo Menotti, who set his own Italian libretto.

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An American in Paris

An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Arlecchino (opera)

Arlecchino, oder Die Fenster (Harlequin, or The Windows, is a one-act opera with spoken dialog by Ferruccio Busoni, with a libretto in German, composed in 1913.

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Art Fleming

Arthur Fleming Fazzin (May 1, 1924 – April 25, 1995), better known as Art Fleming, was an American actor and television host.

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Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.

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Baby It's You

"Baby It's You" is a song written by Burt Bacharach (music), Luther Dixon (credited as Barney Williams), and Mack David (lyrics).

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Basin Street Blues

"Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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Be Myself

Be Myself is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Biophilia (album)

Biophilia is the seventh studio album by Icelandic singer Björk.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Buddy Greco

Armando Joseph "Buddy" Greco (August 14, 1926 – January 10, 2017) was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist, who had a long career in the US and UK and was good friends with the Rat Pack, an American group of entertainers.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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C (musical note)

C (Do, Do, C) is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (F, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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Cadenza

In music, a cadenza (from cadenza, meaning cadence; plural, cadenze) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing virtuosic display.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carl Orff

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (–) was a German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937).

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Carmina Burana (Orff)

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.

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Cherish (The Association song)

"Cherish" is a pop song written by Terry Kirkman and recorded by The Association.

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Children's television series

A children's television series, or children's show, is a television show designed and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon, when children are usually awake.

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Climax Blues Band

The Climax Blues Band (originally known as The Climax Chicago Blues Band) is a British blues rock band.

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Close to You (Frank Sinatra album)

Close to You is the eleventh studio album by American musician Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the Hollywood String Quartet.

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Coda (music)

In music, a coda (Italian for "tail", plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Conrad Susa

Conrad Stephen Susa (April 26, 1935 – November 21, 2013) was an American composer.

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Danny Federici

Daniel Paul "Danny" Federici (January 23, 1950 – April 17, 2008) was an American musician, best known as the organ, glockenspiel, and accordion player and a founding member for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

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Das Lied von der Erde

Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") is a composition for two voices and orchestra written by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909.

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Der Mond

Der Mond (The Moon) is an opera in one act by Carl Orff based on a Grimm's fairy tale) with a libretto by the composer. It was first performed on 5 February 1939 by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich under the direction of Clemens Krauss. The composer describes it not as an opera but as Ein kleines Welttheater ("A little world theatre"); the performance lasts for about one hour and is often paired with Orff's Die Kluge.

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Der Rosenkavalier

(The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op.

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Die Frau ohne Schatten

(The Woman without a Shadow), Op.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Doktor Faust

Doktor Faust is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer himself, based on the myth of Faust.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Dulcitone

A dulcitone is a keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.

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E Street Band

The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972.

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Earl Hines

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Eels (band)

Eels (often typeset as eels or EELS) is an American rock band, formed in California in 1995 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett, known by the stage name E. Band members have changed across the years, both in the studio and on stage, making Everett the only official member for most of the band's work.

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Electric piano

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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Ernest Chausson

Amédée-Ernest Chausson (20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.

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Every Single Night

"Every Single Night" is a song written and performed by American alternative singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.

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Everyday (Buddy Holly song)

"Everyday" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957, and released on September 20, 1957, as the B-side of "Peggy Sue".

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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Ferde Grofé

Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972) was an American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister.

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Gamelan

Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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Gene Wilder

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist.

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Girl Don't Tell Me

"Girl Don't Tell Me" is a song written by Brian Wilson for the American rock band The Beach Boys.

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Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

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Go Quiet

Go Quiet is a music film directed by Dean DeBlois, featuring acoustic renditions of all nine songs from the 2010 album Go by Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson.

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Grand Canyon Suite

The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé, composed between 1929 and 1931.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Harry Potter (film series)

Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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I'll Never Smile Again

"I'll Never Smile Again" is a 1940 song written by Ruth Lowe.

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Idiophone

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.

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In the Wee Small Hours

In the Wee Small Hours is the ninth studio album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra.

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Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical.

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Jónsi

Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson (born 23 April 1975) is the musician, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós.

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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Johnny Costa

Johnny Costa (born John Costanza; January 18, 1922 – October 11, 1996) was an American jazz pianist.

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Karol Szymanowski

Karol Maciej Szymanowski (3 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist, the most celebrated Polish composer of the early 20th century.

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Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist.

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Keyboard glockenspiel

The keyboard glockenspiel (French: jeu de timbre) or organ glockenspiel is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Keyboard section

The keyboard section of an orchestra or concert band includes keyboard instruments.

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L'enfant et les sortilèges

L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette.

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L'heure espagnole

L'heure espagnole is a 1911 one-act opera, described as a comédie musicale, with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 1904 play ('comédie-bouffe') of the same nameStoullig E. Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 30eme edition, 1904. Librairie Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1905.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Maggie May

"Maggie May" is a song co-written with Martin Quittenton and performed by singer Rod Stewart from his album Every Picture Tells a Story, released in 1971.

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Magnet and Steel

"Magnet and Steel" is a hit single written and performed by Walter Egan, released in May 1978.

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Maurice Bouchor

Maurice Bouchor (18 November 1855 – 18 January 1929) was a French poet.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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Meade Lux Lewis

Anderson Meade Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964), known as Meade Lux Lewis, was an American pianist and composer, noted for his playing in the boogie-woogie style.

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Memphis Slim

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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Merv Griffin

Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television host and media mogul.

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Mine for Me

"Mine for Me" is a song written by Paul and Linda McCartney.

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (sometimes shortened to Misterogers or simply Mister Rogers) is an American half-hour educational children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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Mother (Pink Floyd song)

"Mother" is a song by Pink Floyd.

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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz.

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Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.

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Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.

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Northern Sky

"Northern Sky" is a song from the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake's 1970 album Bryter Layter, produced by John Cale.

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Novocaine for the Soul

"Novocaine for the Soul" is a song by American rock band Eels.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pink Floyd – The Wall

Pink Floyd – The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Alan Parker with animated segments by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and is based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album of the same name.

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Pinocchio (1940 film)

Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Pump organ

The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.

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Raw Power

Raw Power is the third studio album by American rock band The Stooges (credited as "Iggy and the Stooges").

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.

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Resonator

A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior, that is, it naturally oscillates at some frequencies, called its resonant frequencies, with greater amplitude than at others.

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Rhythm of the Rain

"Rhythm of the Rain" is a song performed by The Cascades, released in November 1962.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart, (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter.

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Schiedmayer

Schiedmayer is the name of a German Instrument-manufacturing family.

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Schott Music

Schott Music is one of the oldest German music publishers.

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She's a Rainbow

"She's a Rainbow" is a song by the Rolling Stones and was featured on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request.

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Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic avant-rock band from Reykjavík, who have been active since 1994.

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Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

Songs for Swingin' Lovers! is the tenth album by American singer Frank Sinatra and his fourth for Capitol Records.

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Staff (music)

In Western musical notation, the staff (US) or stave (UK) (plural for either: '''staves''') is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or, in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

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Steven Wilson

Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, most closely associated with the progressive rock genre.

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Sun Ra

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground song)

"Sunday Morning" is a song by the Velvet Underground.

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Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.

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Symphony No. 3 (Szymanowski)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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Takk...

Takk... (Thanks...) is the fourth studio album by the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, first released in America by Geffen Records on 12 September 2005.

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Tarkus (song)

"Tarkus" is the title track of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's second album.

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The Association

The Association is an American sunshine pop band from California.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Cascades (band)

The Cascades was an American vocal group best known for the single "Rhythm of the Rain", recorded in 1962, an international hit the following year.

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The Gnome

"The Gnome" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).

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The Planets

The Planets, Op.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Stooges

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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The Turn of the Screw (opera)

The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas".

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).

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The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad)

The Voyevoda, Op.

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The West Wing

The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Transformations (opera)

Transformations is a chamber opera in two acts by the American composer Conrad Susa with a libretto of ten poems by Anne Sexton from her 1971 book Transformations, a collection of confessional poetry based on stories by the Brothers Grimm.

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Transposing instrument

A transposing instrument is a musical instrument whose music is recorded in staff notation at a pitch different from the pitch that actually sounds (concert pitch).

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Tuning fork

A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel).

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W. G. Snuffy Walden

William Garrett Walden, known as W. G. Snuffy Walden (born February 13, 1950) is an American musician and composer of film and television soundtracks.

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Walter Egan

Walter Egan (born July 12, 1948) is an American rock musician, best known for his 1978 gold status hit single "Magnet and Steel" from his second album release, Not Shy, produced by Lindsey Buckingham and Richard Dashut.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Willie "The Lion" Smith

William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (November 25, 1897 – April 18, 1973), also known as "The Lion", was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas "Fats" Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre in its golden age, from about 1920 to 1943.

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy family film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

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Yamaha Corporation

() is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics and power sports equipment.

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1930s in film

The decade of the 1930s in film involved many significant films.

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1940s in film

Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s.

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1940s in music

For music from a year in the 1940s, go to 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1940s.

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1950s in film

The decade of the 1950s in film involved many significant films.

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1971 in film

The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celesta

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