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The Dharma at Big Sur

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The Dharma at Big Sur is a composition for solo electric violin and orchestra by the American composer John Adams. [1]

44 relations: Abbey Road Studios, Bass clarinet, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Canberra International Music Festival, Cello, Cowbell (instrument), Crotales, Electric violin, Equal temperament, Esa-Pekka Salonen, French horn, Glockenspiel, Gong, Harp, Interval (music), John Adams (composer), Just intonation, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Lou Harrison, Marimba, Movement (music), My Father Knew Charles Ives, Nonesuch Records, Octave, Percussion instrument, Piano, Pieter Wispelwey, Sampler (musical instrument), Skywalker Ranch, Standing bell, String section, Terry Riley, Timpani, Tracy Silverman, Triangle (musical instrument), Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Tubular bells, Types of trombone, Vibraphone, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Xylophone.

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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Canberra International Music Festival

The Canberra International Music Festival is a music festival based in Canberra, Australia.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Cowbell (instrument)

The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music including salsa and infrequently in popular music.

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Crotales

Crotales, sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks.

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Electric violin

An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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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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Gong

A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation (sometimes abbreviated as JI) or pure intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer.

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Marimba

The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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My Father Knew Charles Ives

My Father Knew Charles Ives is an orchestral triptych by the American composer John Adams.

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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City.

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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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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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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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Pieter Wispelwey

Pieter Wispelwey (born 25 September 1962) is a Dutch cellist.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Skywalker Ranch

Skywalker Ranch is a movie ranch and workplace of film director, writer and producer George Lucas located in a secluded, yet open area near Nicasio, California, in Marin County.

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Standing bell

A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Terry Riley

Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Tracy Silverman

Tracy Silverman is an American violinist, composer, and producer.

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Triangle (musical instrument)

The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Tubular bells

Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Types of trombone

There are many different types of trombone.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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References

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

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