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First name origin & meaning:
English: Light; A variation of Helen
First name variations: Ellyn, Elen, Elyn, Ellin, Elin, Ellan, Ellene, Ellynn, Ellynne
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Nunez Surname Origin
(Spanish) patronymic from the personal name Nuņo - son of Nuno.
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[ 2 syll. coo-per, co-op-er ] The baby boy name Cooper is also used as a girl name, but it is much more common for boys. It is pronounced as KUW-P-er †. Cooper is an English name of Old English origin. The name is of the meaning cooper, barrel maker, barrel fixer. It is from the element 'cupa... | 0 |
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The claviorganum (also known as the claviorgan, or organised piano) is a combination of a harpsichord and an organ. Its origin is uncertain. A number of "virgynalls with regals" are me... | 1 |
Five Ways To Get The Most Out Of Music Lessons
By Ernie Mansfield
These guidelines will help you have a successful, rewarding experience learning an instrument. These are practical tips that have been discovered from years of teaching—both from my experiences, and those of other teachers.
1. How Young Is Too Young? How... | 1 |
Guillaume Dufay (French: [dyfɛ]; also Du Fay, Du Fayt; August 5, c. 1397 – November 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.
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Developed for the classroom teacher, particularly the non-specialist, the Threshold to Music popular program instructs teacher and student alike in the reading and appreciation of music, emphasizing the Kodaly approach to learning music through the use of simple, familiar everyday songs, nursery rhymes and children's c... | 1 |
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Sibelius 7 is the complete software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation, and can be used by every kind of musician, from students and teachers to professional composers. In Sibelius 7 Essential Training, author Jenny Amaya shows how to create professional-lo... | 1 |
The form developed in the late seventeenth century, although the name was not used at first. Alessandro Stradella seems to have written the first music in which two groups of different sizes are combined in the characteristic way. The first major composer to use the term concerto grosso was Arcangelo Corelli. After Cor... | 1 |
Bedřich Diviš Weber
Bedřich Diviš Weber (9 October 1766, Velichov, nr. Karlovy Vary – 25 December 1842, Prague), also known by the German form of his name, Friedrich Dionys (or Dionysius) Weber, was a Bohemian composer and musicologist primarily remembered as the first Director of the Prague Conservatory, in whose foun... | 1 |
, 1926-97, American poet, b. Paterson, N.J., grad. Columbia, 1949. An outspoken member of the beat generation
, Ginsberg is best known for Howl
(1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack Kerouac
, the insights of Zen Buddhism
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Salammbô is an opera in five acts composed by Ernest Reyer to a French libretto by Camille du Locle. It is based on the novel Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert (1862). The opera was first performed at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels on 10 February 1890. The American premiere was at the French Opera House in New ... | 1 |
Horn is a straight pipe with five holes above and one below. Horn is produced from birch, maple and juniper. Its s ound is strong, but gentle, rang ering a little more than an octave. The first written evidence of the h o r n appear ed in II half of XVIII century in the descriptions of musical instruments by Tuchkov, S... | 1 |
Jim covers basic music concepts such as the staff, time signatures, clefs, measures, note duration, and note representation.
Taught by Jim Deeming in Music Reading seriesLength: 16:25Difficulty: 1.0 of 5
Reading music and rhythm is the foundation for anyone serious about music. In order to understand the theory necessa... | 1 |
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Crotchety old men seem to have won this argument.
Modern pop music is too loud and does sound all the same, just like angry old types have been saying for 70 years.
A team from Spain analyzed music from a 55 year period, using an archive known as the Million Song Dataset, and found that songs have indeed become both lo... | 1 |
Learning the correct hand position on the piano can take a while – especially for young kids, or students who have already established bad habits. Here, Portland teacher Bonnie M. shares an easy way to explain it…
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We propose a method by which dancing motions can be generated automatically using various dancing rules. Hence the burdensome task of teaching can be avoided by using our proposed method. We have analyzed the dancing motions taught by an expert dancer to the automata and have extracted the dancing ... | 1 |
Kids will love learning about 50 of history's most famous composers with these easy-to-digest materials.
One-Page Composer Bios is 100% reproducible and is chock-full of brief, informative, and interesting one-page biographies of 50 of history's greatest composers. Use these easy-to-read biographies as a complete cours... | 1 |
BOSTON — On May 19, 1968, three poets stepped up to the mic to recite their verses to the rhythm of percussive thrusts, and from that day forward the art of spoken word was altered. The poets had no idea that they were about to make music history. None of them had given what they were doing a name, but each wanted to c... | 1 |
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A music kiosk is a type of self-standing structure with an electronic interface that helps consumers look up, listen to, or buy music. Kiosks with digital screens and interfaces are part of a modern world of commerce, and are frequently set up in public areas such as ... | 1 |
Jazz Guitar Corner: 10 Steps to Learning Jazz Guitar Standards
One of the biggest problems I encounter with jazz guitar students is that they have learned a ton of chords, scales and arpeggios, but they can’t play a tune or jam on a standard with other musicians.
When learning how to play jazz guitar, it’s vital to kee... | 1 |
Definitions for Dancing
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Dancing
dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation(noun)
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
The activity of dancing (see the verb dance).
Describing something or someone that is currently in the a... | 1 |
The octobass is an extremely large bowedstring instrument that was first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthierJean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875). It has three strings, and is essentially a larger version of the double bass (the specimen in the collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris measures 3.48 met... | 1 |
Want to remember the lyrics of a song to impress your friends? Want to just know the lyrics so you can sing along? If so, read this article.
1Pick a song you really like. Don't just remember any old song lyrics. Pick a song that you listen to the most and one that you really enjoy.Ad
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The Rite of Spring
|The Rite of Spring|
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|Premiere||29 May 1913
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|Original ballet company||Ballets Russes|
The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps, Russian: «Весна священная», Vesna svyashchennaya) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer... | 1 |
Are you flummoxed with your flute tone? Is it too bright or airy for your taste? Look no further. Here are a few steps you can take to improve your tone.
1Sit up straight. In fact, it's easiest to play with a good tone while standing. Make sure your back is straight up and down when you are sitting and don't slouch! Tu... | 1 |
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Producer Serge Diaghilev and directors Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold dominated Russian theatrical life in the first decades of the 20th century. Together with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Stanislavsky founded the ... | 1 |
Introduced by his father to literature while very young, in addition to his native Italian, Ferretti mastered not only Latin and Ancient Greek but also French and English, and began writing verse early. Even though he worked in the tobacco industry from the age of about 30 until he was over 60, he was extremely prolifi... | 1 |
Victor Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist, and conductor. He is best known for his many operettas which premiered on Broadway between the 1890s and World War I. He was a founding member of ASCAP, an activist for the legal rights of composers, and influe... | 1 |
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. That is to say, a songwriter is a lyricist, a composer, or both. The word 'songwriter' is however more commonly used to describe one who writes popular songs than to describe a writer of art songs.
Songwriters m... | 1 |
Music Psychology and Effects of Music
To quote Stevie Wonder, "Music is world within itself, with a language we all understand...."--music acts as a language, with or without words, serving as a platform for people from all walks of life to express their deepest and most profound thoughts and emotions. As such, Leo Tol... | 1 |
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Essential learning for anyone interested in arranging music for a band, Arranging 1: Rhythm Section explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm sect... | 1 |
Reading Jane Austen's books really made me wonder how people used to make a living in the 19th century England.
It seems to me that the men didn't have to go to work. Mr. Bingley (from Pride and Prejudice) who is said to have four or five thousand pounds a year, considered very rich, spent considerable amount of time (... | 2 |
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Nhuong say the white catfish fought like at the end of the old man's line?
(a) A boxer.
(b) A wrestler.
(c) A demon.
(d) A devil.
2. Why ... | 2 |
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1. Why does Cal want Chapter Eleven to drive through Detroit on their way home for Milton's funeral?
(a) He wants to shop for an outfit to wear to the... | 2 |
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When George loses he temper when the boys question him, what does he say the organization he works for tries to do?
(a) Wipe out bad pol... | 2 |
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1. Why does Elinor wonder if Marianne and Willoughby will be able to sustain a conversation?
(a) They have already covered several topics
(b) They don... | 2 |
discussed in biography...tracts of 1641–42 are the antimonarchical polemics of 1649–55. Composed after Milton had become allied to those who sought to form an English republic, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)—probably written before and during the trial of King Charles I though not published until after his ... | 2 |
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1. Officer Leandro Pornoy, who visited with the twins at Clothilde Armenta's:
2. Colonel Lazaro Aponte:
3. The purple blotch that appears on Santiago's face is ... | 2 |
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(1882-1941). Virginia Woolf was born Virginia Stephen in London on January 25, 1882, and was educated by her father, Sir Leslie Stephen. After ... | 2 |
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
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1. A forlorn Mary Alice informs Grandma of ______________.
(a) Mildred's demand.
(b) Mildred's desire to be her friend.
(c) ... | 2 |
A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry. A public reading is typically given on a small stage in a café or bookstore, although reading by prominent poets frequently are booked into larger venues such as amphitheaters and college auditoriums, to accommodate crowds. Unless otherwise indicate... | 2 |
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1. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?
2. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in ... | 2 |
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Norwood finally say Bert is allowed to do?
2. Where does Cora say she will see Bert when he leaves?
3. Of what does Cora inform this person?
4. Wit... | 2 |
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Seeds, December 11, 1906 - May 15, 1939.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Cameron Wilcox returns from war with ______________.
(a) Foreign money.
(b) A bag of guns.
(c) Trophie... | 2 |
Crane, Stephen, 1871–1900, American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, b. Newark, N.J. Often designated the first modern American writer, Crane is ranked among the authors who introduced realism into American literature. The 14th child of a Methodist minister, he grew up in Port Jervis, N.Y., and briefly attended ... | 2 |
Theatrical realism was a general movement in 19th-century theatre from the time period of 1870-1960 that developed a set of dramatic and theatrical conventions with the aim of bringing a greater fidelity of real life to texts and performances. Part of a broader artistic movement, it shared many stylistic choices with n... | 2 |
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Short Answer Questions
1. With whom is the governor in love with?
2. How does Welldon say he could cheat the widow?
3. What does Blanford vow to help Oroono... | 2 |
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? (Study Guide) Cummings Guides Home..|..Contact This Site .Study Guide Written by Michael J.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the relationship between Elmire and Mariane?
(c) Mother and daughter.
(d) Stepmother and stepdaughter.
2. What is the name of Tartuffe's... | 2 |
Sonnet 60 Man and the Natural World Quotes
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end,
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend. (1-4)
On the surface, the simile in these lines is just comparing "... | 2 |
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is one thing that makes Anita realize Oscar is right about their country?
(a) The way her father and mother speak in low tones all the time.
(... | 2 |
Sensory words in poetry are those that powerfully invoke instances of sense perception for the reader, particularly those invoking the five senses themselves: taste, touch, sight, smell and hearing. Through the use of sensory language, the poet seeks to enhance the poem's experiential nature.Know More
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Introduction to Romeo and Juliet by Mario DiGangi
“Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” So familiar is Romeo and Juliet to us that it takes an act of conscious will to imagine a time when Juliet’s ques... | 2 |
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Qfwfq want Lll to come away with him to?
(a) An underwater garden.
(b) A system of caverns in the forest.
(c) A plain beyond the mountain... | 2 |
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- Low Comedy
- Picture-frame stage
- closet drama
- a Developed in the 16th century Italian playhouses, it held the action within an arch, a gateway standing "in front of the scenery". It framed painted scene panels to give the illusion of 3-dimensional perspective although only... | 2 |
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in the country but those imitative versifiers of an already antiquated English fashion whom Bryant was himself to characterize1 with quiet justice in the first critical appraisal of our “literature,” the first declaration of intellectual independence, antedating Emerson's Ameri... | 2 |
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does she tell Figaro to tell "Lindor?"
(a) She wants to marry him.
(b) All she wants is his love.
(c) All she wants is friendship.
... | 2 |
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of what caste level was the girl who the director took to the savage reservation?
2. Who was Lenina going to the north pole with?
3. Why di... | 2 |
The two chief families in Verona were the rich Capulets and the Montagues. There had been an old quarrel between these families, which was grown to such a height, and so deadly was the enmity between them, that it extended to the remotest kindred, to the followers and retainers of both sides, insomuch that a servant of... | 2 |
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Woody bring as a gift to his father's family?
(b) A radio
2. Why is there a housing shortage on the West Coast?
(a) Japanese American hou... | 2 |
discussed in biographyDryden’s longest poem to date, Annus Mirabilis (1667), was a celebration of two victories by the English fleet over the Dutch and the Londoners’ survival of the Great Fire of 1666. In this work Dryden was once again gilding the royal image and reinforcing the concept of a loyal nation united under... | 2 |
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late 12c., a shortening of Old English adrædan, contraction of ondrædan "counsel or advise against," also "to dread, fear, be afraid," from on- "against" + rædan "to advise" (see read (v.)). Cognate of Old Saxon andradon, Old High German intraten. Related: Dreaded; dreading.... | 3 |
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"crescent-shaped body," 1690s in reference to lenses, c.1812 in reference to liquid surfaces, Modern Latin meniscus, from Greek meniskos "lunar crescent," diminutive of mene "moon" (see moon (n.)). Related: Meniscoid.
meniscus me·nis·cus (mə-nĭs'kəs)
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1590s, "putting forth activity," present participle adjective from act (v.). Meaning "performing temporary duties" is from 1797.
c.1600, "performance of deeds;" 1660s, "performance of plays;" verbal noun from present participle of act (v.). Acting out in psychology is from 1... | 3 |
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1777, from Portuguese or Spanish curare, a corruption of the name in the Carib language of the Macusi Indians of Guyana, wurali or wurari, which had a sort of click sound at the beginning, and is said to mean "he to whom it comes falls."
curare cu·ra·re or cu·ra·ri (ku-rä'rē... | 3 |
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peritoneum per·i·to·ne·um or per·i·to·nae·um (pěr'ĭ-tn-ē'əm)
n. pl. per·i·to·ne·a or per·i·to·nae·a (-tn-ē'ə)
The serous sac consisting of mesothelium and a thin layer of irregular connective tissue that lines the abdominal cavity, covers most of the viscera contained therei... | 3 |
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A file transfer protocol used between modems. YMODEM was developed by Chuck Forsberg as the successor to XMODEM and was itself succeeded by ZMODEM. XMODEM used 128-byte packets, YMODEM can also use 1 kilobyte packets. Whereas YMODEM is a batch protocol, YMODEM-G is a non-sto... | 3 |
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1706, respelling of croisade (1570s), from Middle French croisade (16c.), Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare "to mark with a cross," from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cross." Other Middle English forms were croiserie, creiserie. ... | 3 |
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biblical masc. proper name, Greek Barabbas, from Aramaic barabba, "son of the father," or "son of the master." In Hebrew, it would be ben abh.
i.e., son of Abba or of a father, a notorious robber whom Pilate proposed to condemn to death instead of Jesus, whom he wished to re... | 3 |
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"to loll idly," c.1500, Scottish, of uncertain origin, perhaps [Barnhart] from French s'allonger (paresseusement) "to lounge about, lie at full length," from Old French alongier "lengthen," from Latin longus "long" (see long (adj.)). Another etymology traces it through obsol... | 3 |
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1530s, from Middle French réhabilitation and directly from Medieval Latin rehabilitationem (nominative rehabilitatio) "restoration," noun of action from past participle stem of rehabilitare, from re- "again" (see re-) + habitare "make fit," from Latin habilis "easily managed... | 3 |
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