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Cover of the book with the sheet music to "Coon Coon Coon"

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Photograph, by Carl Van Vechten, of Débria Brown as Carmen, at the New York City Opera, in 1958

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Georgette Leblanc

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A black and white photo of a smiling Japanese man with short black hair and a black, zipped jacket shown from the shoulders up. The background is fuzzy and difficult to distinguish.

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David Bispham

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Les Twins, photographed by Shawn Welling in 2010

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The Legend, libretto cover

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Siti Nurhaliza at the launching of her first English-language album

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The front of 1520 Sedwick Avenue. A light brown apartment building is in the background with some trees in the foreground.

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Six dark haired women sitting at a table in a black room

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Annette Nelson as 'The Mountain Sylph'

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Musiktheater im Revier, the rectangular structure of the theater at night from the street

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The well-lit inside of a large room with large glass plane windows

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Ben Goldwasser of MGMT backstage with bandmate Andrew VanWyngarden in 2008

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Marguerite Bériza

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Organ from the Wilhelm Sauer Manufactory in the Berlin Cathedral

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Sketch of woman with long hair and curls and light dress

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A woman with long black hair playing a guitar and singing in front of a microphone

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A musical stave displaying the overtones (harmonics).

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Major-thirds tuning repeats itself (at a higher octave) after three strings. Thus, chords can be shifted vertically on the same frets. The shift of a C major chord (with notes C,E,G) is displayed.

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An equilateral triangle's corners represent the equally spaced notes of a major-thirds tuning, here E-C-G♯. The triangle is circumscribed by the chromatic circle, which lists the 12 notes of the octave.

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A seven-string guitar with the open-strings annotated with the notes D-G-B-D-G-B-D

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A knotwork, a design often associated with Celtic traditions. The outer design is a circle, surrounding what appears to be a triangle surrounded by a Celtic knot at first glance. Closer inspection of the triangle reveals that it is in fact an organic part of the inner knot, which seems to have two continuous segments linked by knots. At first glance, the knotwork appears to be symmetric; closer inspection reveals that the right-hand knots seem to be the reverse of the left-hand knots and there are small differences among the "twin nots"; the right and left hands of the design have variations, much as our right and left hands have subtle distinctions. The design is not symmetric with respect to 120 degree rotations: The center of the pseudo-triangle is above the center of the surrounding circle, but visual balance is maintained by extra knots below the lower pseudo–line-segment. The background is crimson.
Discipline Global Mobile (DGM) insists that its artists retain all copyrights even to DGM's knotwork logo (pictured), which is owned by artist Steve Ball.

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A guitar fretboard with line-segments connecting the successive open-string notes of the standard tuning

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A taiko drum
A taiko drum

...that Japanese taiko drums (pictured) are played with wooden sticks called bachi?
... that major-thirds guitar tuning is a repetitive tuning in which chords are raised an octave by shifting all notes by three strings on the same frets?
...that Frank Zappa won a Grammy Award for the album Jazz from Hell, which was composed using, and entirely performed by, the Synclavier synthesizer?
...that the Industrial Workers of the World's Little Red Songbook has helped spread that group’s message?
...that Kassav' is the most popular band to ever emerge from the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe?
...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
...that the bass player Jaco Pastorius was killed by a night club bouncer, after being refused entry to a Santana concert?
...that Austrian composer Alban Berg encoded names and messages in his works using the Twelve-tone technique, and wrote program music referring to his secret love for novelist Franz Werfel's sister?
...that French singer Alizée's performance of her song J'en ai marre! was the inspiration of the female Night Elf dance in World of Warcraft?

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...that, in the 1940s, the female fans of the Soviet tenor Sergei Lemeshev often quarrelled with the fans of his rival, Ivan Kozlovsky?
...that an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer Mikhail Bulgakov was found in Isaak Dunayevsky's archive after his death in 1955?
...that the symphony said to have been written in 1809 by Ukrainian landowner Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was later proven to be a hoax?
... that the Agung, a Philippine set of gongs, was repeatedly hit during earthquakes for it was believed its supernatural powers would halt the earth's reverberations?
...that the first performance of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) was conducted by Catterino Cavos, who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
...that composer Veniamin Fleishman was killed at the beginning of the Second World War before he could complete his opera Rothschild's Violin, but that his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad and completed the opera?
...that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired the jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning?

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The bagpiper, by Hendrik ter Brugghen
The bagpiper, by Hendrik ter Brugghen

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clear
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Mozart, the younger
Mozart, the younger

...that the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a son, Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, who was a noted composer himself?
...that the composer Arnold Schoenberg once said of his music: "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"?
...that according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent more time on the UK album charts than those of any other musical act?
...that the Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert on August 20, 1966?
...that "Lady Marmalade" was a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label?
...that Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that Jully Black is a Canadian R&B singer best-known for her Top 40 hit "Rally’n"?
...that Russian composer Boris Sobinov was abducted from the Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union?
...that Austrian composer Alban Berg died from an insect bite that caused blood poisoning?

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Mariah Carey


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