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shorts C string (music), one of the strings on various instruments, for example the lowest string on the viola and cello CString, a C string representation...

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...

"Air on the G String", also known as "Air for G String" and "Celebrated Air", is August Wilhelmj's 1871 arrangement of the second movement of Johann Sebastian...

work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet...

and gambas used in early music from the Baroque music era and fiddles used in many types of folk music). All of the bowed string instruments can also be...

fundamentals of the two strings. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string. The strings of a guitar are normally...

rural folk culture, but 5-string and 4-string banjos also became popular for home parlor music entertainment, college music clubs, and early 20th century...

The String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131, was completed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1826. It is the last-composed of a trio of string quartets, written...

Strings The String (2009), a French film String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments String instrument...

A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than...

orchestra's string section, along with violins, violas, and cellos, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo, and chamber music in Western...

piano sonata, symphony, string quartet, and string quintet. Mozart also wrote many violin sonatas, and other forms of chamber music, violin concertos, and...

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, was written in three days (12–14 July 1960). The piece was written shortly after Shostakovich...

(1904), String Quartet in C major (after 1904), String Quartet Movement (1926), String Quartet (1926), String Quartet in C major (after 1927) and String Quartet...

loudest volume of an instrument, part or piece of music. Although woodwind instruments and string instruments have no theoretical upper limit to their...

13 in B♭ major (1825) Opus 131: String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor (1826) Opus 132: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor (1825) Opus 133: Große Fuge in B♭...

common keys used in music. Its key signature has no flats or sharps. Its relative minor is A minor and its parallel minor is C minor. The C major scale is:...

The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century...

comes to mind when speaking of drone music. In America, most forms of the African-influenced banjo contain a drone string. Since the 1960s, the drone has become...

art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part...