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99 relations: "Heroes" (David Bowie album), A Night at the Opera (Queen album), A Taste of Honey (band), Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album), Alligator Farm (album), Anthony Braxton, Asia (band), Autoharp, Đàn tranh, Brian Jones, Bridge (instrument), Camper Van Beethoven, China, Chinese dragon, Dave Brubeck, David Bowie, Deerhoof, Dr. Dre, E-mu Emulator, Elizabeth Falconer, Encyclopædia Britannica, Experimental music, Gayageum, Genesis (band), Guqin, Guzheng, Half hitch, Haru no Umi, Heat of the Moment (Asia song), Hiroshima (band), I'll Try Something New, Ichigenkin, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Japan, Japanese language, Japanese literature, Japanese New Year, Jazz, Jim O'Rourke (musician), John Cage, John Fahey (musician), Kacapi, Kagrra,, Kazue Sawai, Kimio Eto, Korea, Lateralus (song), Mama (Genesis song), Meiji period, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ..., Michio Miyagi, Michiyo Yagi, Miho: Journey to the Mountain, Miya Masaoka, Mongolia, Moss Garden, Mr. Bungle, Musical instrument, Nara period, New York City, Nut (string instrument), Ogg, Paul Gilbert, Paul Winter Consort, Paulownia, Paulownia tomentosa, Piano, Plectrum, Pop music, Queen (band), Reiko Obata, Rin', Rock music, Santur, Se (instrument), Shakira, Shakuhachi, Silenziosa Luna, Spectral Mornings, Still D.R.E., String instrument, Sukiyaki (song), Tadao Sawai, Taishō period, Taishōgoto, The Rolling Stones, The Tale of Genji, Tony Banks (musician), Tool (band), Tuxedomoon, Vietnam, Virtuoso, Winston Tong, Yamatogoto, Yatga, Yatsuhashi Kengyo, Zither, 17-string koto, 2001 (Dr. Dre album). Expand index (49 more) »
"Heroes" (David Bowie album)
"Heroes" is the 12th studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on RCA Records on 14 October 1977.
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A Night at the Opera (Queen album)
A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.
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A Taste of Honey (band)
A Taste of Honey was an American recording act, formed in 1971 by associates Janice–Marie Johnson and Perry Kibble.
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Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album)
Aftermath, released in April 1966 by Decca Records, is the fourth British and sixth American studio album by the Rolling Stones.
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Alligator Farm (album)
Alligator Farm is the third solo studio album by Paul Gilbert formerly of the heavy metal band Racer X and the hard rock band Mr. Big.
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Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.
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Asia (band)
Asia are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1981.
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Autoharp
The Autoharp is a musical instrument in the chorded zither family.
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Đàn tranh
The đàn tranh or đàn thập lụcLe, Tuan Hung.
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Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician, best known as founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones.
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Bridge (instrument)
A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.
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Camper Van Beethoven
Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California in 1983 and later located in Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese dragon
Chinese dragons or East Asian dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and East Asian culture at large.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.
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Deerhoof
Deerhoof is an American independent music group formed in San Francisco in 1994.
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Dr. Dre
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), better known by his stage name Dr.
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E-mu Emulator
The Emulator is the name given the series of digital sampling synthesizers using floppy disk storage, manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1981 until the 1990s.
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Elizabeth Falconer
Elizabeth Falconer (born July 20, 1956) is one of the few American masters of the koto, a traditional zither from Japan.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Gayageum
The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other number of strings.
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Genesis (band)
Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.
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Guqin
The guqin is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family.
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Guzheng
The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, is a Chinese plucked string instrument with a more than 2,500-year history.
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Half hitch
The half hitch is a simple overhand knot, where the working end of a line is brought over and under the standing part.
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Haru no Umi
Haru no Umi (春の海, "The Sea in Spring") is a Shin Nihon Ongaku ('New Japanese Music') piece for koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi.
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Heat of the Moment (Asia song)
"Heat of the Moment" is the first hit single released by English progressive rock supergroup Asia from their 1982 eponymous debut.
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Hiroshima (band)
Hiroshima is an American jazz fusion/smooth jazz/Asian-American jazz band formed in 1974 by Sansei Japanese American Dan Kuramoto (wind instruments and band leader), Peter Hata (guitar), June Kuramoto (koto), Johnny Mori (percussion and taiko), Dave Iwataki (keyboards) and Danny Yamamoto (drums).
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I'll Try Something New
I'll Try Something New is the third Tamla (Motown) album by The Miracles.
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Ichigenkin
The is a Japanese single-stringed zither.
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Jackie-O Motherfucker
Jackie-O Motherfucker is an American experimental music group that formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanese language
is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
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Japanese literature
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese.
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Japanese New Year
The is an annual festival with its own customs.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jim O'Rourke (musician)
Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and record producer.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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John Fahey (musician)
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.
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Kacapi
The kacapi is a zither-like Sundanese musical instrument played as the main accompanying instrument in the Tembang Sunda or Mamaos Cianjuran, kacapi suling (tembang Sunda without vocal accompaniment) genre (called kecapi seruling in Indonesian), pantun stories recitation or an additional instrument in Gamelan Degung performance.
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Kagrra,
was a Japanese visual kei rock band.
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Kazue Sawai
is a Japanese koto player noted for her performance of contemporary classical music and free improvisation.
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Kimio Eto
(surname Etō, born 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto.
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Korea
Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.
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Lateralus (song)
"Lateralus" is a song by American progressive metal band Tool.
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Mama (Genesis song)
"Mama" was the first single from Genesis' 1983 self-titled album.
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Meiji period
The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.
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Michio Miyagi
was a Japanese musician, famous for his so playing.
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Michiyo Yagi
, a Japanese musician, studied koto under Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai and Satomi Kurauchi, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians.
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Miho: Journey to the Mountain
Miho: Journey to the Mountain is an album by Paul Winter Consort, released in 2010 through the record label Living Music.
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Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka is based in New York City (born 1958, Washington, DC) and is an American composer, musician, and sound artist active in the field of experimental music.
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Mongolia
Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.
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Moss Garden
"Moss Garden" is an instrumental piece written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1977 for the album "Heroes".
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Mr. Bungle
Mr.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nut (string instrument)
A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest to the headstock or scroll.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966), is an American hard rock/heavy metal guitarist.
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Paul Winter Consort
The Paul Winter Consort is an American musical group, led by soprano saxophonist Paul Winter.
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Paulownia
Paulownia is a genus of six to 17 species (depending on taxonomic authority) of flowering plants in the family Paulowniaceae, related to and sometimes included in the Scrophulariaceae.
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Paulownia tomentosa
Paulownia tomentosa (common names princesstree, foxglove-tree, or kiri) is a deciduous tree in the family Paulowniaceae, native to central and western China.
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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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Plectrum
A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.
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Reiko Obata
Reiko Obata A Japanese American koto performer and composer based in Southern California.
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Rin'
Rin' was a Japanese pop group which combines traditional Japanese musical instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Santur
The santur (also santūr, santour, santoor) (سنتور) is a hammered dulcimer of Persian/Iranic origins.
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Se (instrument)
The se is an ancient Chinese plucked zither (string instrument).
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977) is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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Shakuhachi
The is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown bamboo-flute.
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Silenziosa Luna
is an album by the Italian composer Carlo Forlivesi.
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Spectral Mornings
Spectral Mornings is the third studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett, released in May 1979 on Charisma Records.
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Still D.R.E.
"Still D.R.E." is a song by American rapper Dr. Dre, featuring fellow American rapper Snoop Dogg.
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String instrument
String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Sukiyaki (song)
is a Japanese-language song that was performed by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, and written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura.
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Tadao Sawai
was a Japanese koto player and composer.
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Taishō period
The, or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō.
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Taishōgoto
The, or Nagoya harp, is a Japanese stringed musical instrument.
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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 Tale of Genji
is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century.
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Tony Banks (musician)
Anthony George Banks (born 27 March 1950) is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and film composer primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis.
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Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.
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Tuxedomoon
Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
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Virtuoso
A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso or, "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.
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Winston Tong
Winston Tong (born 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an actor, playwright, visual artist, puppeteer, and singer-songwriter.
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Yamatogoto
The, also called and, is a six- or seven-stringed zither which, unlike the koto and other stringed instruments, is believed to be truly native to Japan, and not imported from mainland Asia.
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Yatga
The yatug (Mongolian: yatug-a, Khalkha dialect: ятга yatga;; Chinese: 雅托葛) is a traditional Mongolian plucked zither, related to the Chinese guzheng.
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Yatsuhashi Kengyo
Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto.
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Zither
Zither is a class of stringed instruments.
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17-string koto
The is a traditional Japanese musical instrument, a zither with seventeen strings.
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2001 (Dr. Dre album)
2001 (sometimes referred to as The Chronic 2001, Chronic 2001 or The Chronic 2) is the second studio album by American rapper and producer Dr. Dre.
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