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Joseph Haydn 
 Haydn made a living teaching lessons and playing in the streets for handouts until he met Nicolai Porpora, who hired Haydn as an accompanist and general servant.
Joseph Haydn 
 While in London, he heard Handel's Messiah, and was inspired to write two oratorios of his own, The Seasons and The Creation.
Joseph Haydn 
 Beethoven had first wanted to study with Mozart, but by the time Beethoven was ready to study in Vienna, Mozart had died.
Joseph Haydn 
 The house in Vienna where Haydn wrote his oratorios has been turned into a museum called 'Haydnhaus'.
Joseph Haydn 
 Haydn was so well-respected in Vienna that he was known as "Papa Haydn" and his influence on music was profound and great.
Scale (music) 
 If the scale starts with the note which has the lowest pitch and goes up to the note with the highest pitch, the scale is called ascending.
Scale (music) 
 If the scale starts with the note which has the highest pitch and goes down to the note with the lowest pitch, the scale is called descending.
Scale (music) 
 If we start on the note C and play each white key going up until we come to the next C, we have played the C Major scale.
Scale (music) 
 It has eight notes because there are eight notes from each C to the next one: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.
Scale (music) 
 The note played by each black key has two names: it can be named by the note after it, or the note before it.
Scale (music) 
 That same note can also be called D♭ (D-flat) because it is the note before D. Flat means lower in pitch.
Scale (music) 
 The key to the right plays a note half a step higher (sharp) and the key to the left plays a note half a step lower (flat).
Scale (music) 
 So between the third and the fourth note, and between the seventh and eighth note, there is only half a step.
Scale (music) 
 Starting the scale at the next white key (D), two black keys will need to be touched to get the same scale, the first one for the third note, the second for the seventh note: D, E, F♯, G, A, B, C♯, D. The pattern for an ascending major scale is up a whole step, up another whole step and then a half step, then a whole step, a whole step and another whole step, then half a step to complete the octave.
Scale (music) 
 Scales use either just sharps or just flats when choosing between the two names for the same note, when this is possible.
Scale (music) 
 This means that some scales have one or two notes named with a sharp or a flat even though they are played by white keys.
Scale (music) 
 In the C♯ Major scale, for example, all the notes have names with a sharp: C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, B♯, C♯. In this scale, E♯ is the name for the note played by the key that plays F and the B♯ is the name for the note played by the key that plays C. The same notes are used in the D♭ Major scale, but they all have different names: D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C, D♭.
Scale (music) 
 In the musical The Sound of Music, Maria teaches the children to sing by teaching them a song called "Doe, a deer, a female deer".
Scale (music) 
 Each line starts on the next note of the scale and uses a different English word for each note ("doe", "ray", "me", "far", "sew", "la" and "tea").
Scale (music) 
 natural minor uses half a step between the second and the third note, and between the fifth and the sixth note.
Scale (music) 
 harmonic minor is the same as natural minor, except that there is only half a step between the seventh and eighth note.
Scale (music) 
 Taking the example from before, but using the black key between G and A instead of the G (raising it by half a step) gives A, B, C, D, E, F, G♯, A.
Scale (music) 
 Except for some forms of Jazz music, the natural minor is used going down the scale: A, B, C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A, G, F, E, D, C, B, A.
Scale (music) 
 Traditional western music generally uses seven notes, and repeats the first note (an octave higher or lower) to complete the octave.
Scale (music) 
 During the Middle Ages, and the Renaisssance, the diatonic scale (the white keys of the piano) was used most often.
Orthology (language) 
 This science is a place where psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and many other fields of learning come together.
Orthology (language) 
 The book, The Meaning of Meaning, by C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards, is an important book dealing with orthology.
1712 
 January 26 – Tuscarora War: More than half of the Native Americans in Colonel John Barnwell's Carolina militia desert during the crossing of the Cape Fear River.
1712 
 January 29 – Tuscarora War: Colonel John Barnwell's Carolina militia attack the sprawling Tuscarora farming community of Torhunta by focusing on Fort Narhantes.
Toei Company 
 Toei Company, Ltd. (東映株式会社 Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha (pronounced toe ay) is a Japanese film, television production, and  distribution corporation.
Toei Company 
 Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a shareholder in several television companies.
Toei Company 
 Tokyo-Yokohama Films (東横映画 Tō-Yoko Eiga, incorporated in 1938, had previously erected its facilities immediately east of the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line, they managed the Tōkyū Shibuya Yokohama studio system prior to V-J Day.
Toei Company 
 From 1945 through the Toei merger, Tokyo-Yokohama Films leased from the Daiei Motion Picture Company a second studio in Kyoto.
Toei Company 
 On October 1, 1950, the Tokyo Film Distribution Company was incorporated; in 1951 the company purchased Ōizumi Films.
Toei Company 
 In 1956, Toei established an animation division, Toei Animation at the former Tokyo-Ōizumi animation studio, purchasing the assets of Japan Animated Films (originally founded in 1948)
Toei Company 
 Toei was a pioneer in the use of transformation in live-action martial-arts dramas, a technique developed for the Kamen Rider, Metal Heroes and Super Sentai series; The genre currently continues with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.
Toei Company 
 In April 6, 2020, Toei create their official Youtube Channel and uploading some of the oldest tokusatsu series (from the 50s to 90s).
Naoko Takeuchi 
 She wrote the manga Sailor Moon, which was so popular it was made into an anime, musicals, video games and more.
Kimi Ga Yo 
 The music was written more recently (about two hundred years ago) and was then rewritten shortly afterwards because the original tune was unpopular.
Kimi Ga Yo 
 Although popular for a long period and sung in situations where people from other countries would usually sing their country's national anthem, Kimi Ga Yo was only considered as Japan's official national anthem in 1999.
April Fools' Day 
 April Fools' Day (also known as April Fool's Day) is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year.
April Fools' Day 
 In some countries, April Fools only last until noon, and if someone plays a joke after, they are an April Fool.
April Fools' Day 
 Some people think that April Fools' started because those who celebrated on January 1 made fun of those who celebrated on other dates.
April Fools' Day 
 One tradition there is to try and stick a paper fish on one's friends back, and shout "Poisson d'Avril!'
Baroque music 
 Baroque music is a set of styles of European classical music which were in use between about 1600 and 1750 during the Baroque period.
Baroque music 
 The word "Baroque" is used in other art forms besides music: we talk about Baroque architecture, painting, sculpture, dance and literature.
Baroque music 
 This can be seen in the architecture of famous buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, or St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Baroque music 
 There was also a harpsichord or organ that played the bass line as well, and made up chords in between.
Baroque music 
 Often the composer did not bother to write out all the chords (harmonies) but just showed some of the chords by figures, leaving it to the performer to decide exactly which notes to play.
Baroque music 
 Again: the composer did not write this all down but left it to the performer to improvise something nice around the notes he had written.
Baroque music 
 Because composers were now writing opera it was important for the audience to hear the words clearly.
Baroque music 
 In the Renaissance the groups of a choir were often singing several different words using different melodies all at once.
Baroque music 
 Polyphony was widely used in instrumental music, but was not used in opera, which needed to tell a story without being confusing.
Baroque music 
 There were several “affections” or moods: there were arias about revenge, jealousy, anger, love, despair, peaceful happiness etc.
Baroque music 
 There are many exceptions to the standard order, but the order of Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Other, and Gigue is most common.
Pattern language 
 Pattern language is used to mean a system of patterns that have a certain meaning other than just the pattern.
Pattern language 
 The pattern can be a pattern which has a hidden meaning shown through any sense like sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.
National Maritime Day 
 In the United States, National Maritime Day is held every May 22 to honor people who have served in the United States Merchant Marine service.
National Maritime Day 
 The first National Maritime Day was May 22, 1933, based on a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress on May 20, 1933.
National Maritime Day 
 The biggest National Maritime Day celebration was in 1946, the first National Maritime Day after the Allied Powers won World War II.
National Maritime Day 
 That year, governors of many U.S. states also officially named the day National Maritime Day or Maritime Day for their state.
National Maritime Day 
 The first National Maritime Day after the end of the Korean War, in 1954, was also more widely celebrated than most.
National Maritime Day 
 In the 2006 annual proclamation by president George W. Bush, he made special mention of the Merchant Marine service's hurricane aid work following Hurricane Katrina and the other hurricanes of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
Nuclear fusion 
 Nuclear fusion is the process of making a single heavy nucleus (part of an atom) from two lighter nuclei.
Nuclear fusion 
 Stars join all of their atoms together to make heavier atoms of different types, until they start to make iron.
Nuclear fusion 
 On Earth it is very difficult to start nuclear fusion reactions that release more energy than is needed to start the reaction.
Nuclear fusion 
 The reason is that fusion reactions only happen at high temperature and pressure, like in the Sun, because both nuclei have a positive charge, and positive repels positive.
Nuclear fusion 
 Scientists and engineers have been trying for decades to find a safe and working way of controlling and containing fusion reactions to generate electricity.
Nuclear fusion 
 They still have many challenges to overcome before fusion power can be used as a clean source of energy.
Concertmaster 
 The Concertmaster (American English) or leader (British English) is the most important violinist in an orchestra.
Concertmaster 
 He will talk to the conductor about anything the orchestra are not happy about (he may have to remind the conductor when it is time to stop the rehearsal!).
Concertmaster 
 If part of the music is marked "solo" then he will play it as a solo while the other violins stop playing.
Concertmaster 
 In the United States it is usual for the concertmaster to be on the platform before the concert and to tell the orchestra to tune their instruments, playing on his A string to give them the correct pitch.
Mutual assured destruction 
 Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a military strategy in which two opposing military forces are powerful enough to completely destroy each other.
Mutual assured destruction 
 If a state attacks another with nuclear weapons, the state attacked will potentially be able to attack back.
Thin Lizzy 
 The band's famous song "The Boys Are Back in Town" is still played a lot on classic rock radio stations.
Thin Lizzy 
 The band's music showed many musical styles including: country music, psychedelic rock, Celtic music and folk music which Lynott mixed with hard rock and heavy metal styles.
Aziz al-Abub 
 Aziz was a disciple of Ewen Cameron and a graduate of the Soviet Union's Patrice Lumumba Institute that specialized in mind control techniques.
Aziz al-Abub 
 Aziz al-Abub used mind-control, drugs and physical torture in the infamous 444-day (1984-1985) torture and mental derangement of American William Buckley in Beirut.
Hobbit 
 Hobbits are a fictional race in the Middle-earth world invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, also often called halflings.
Hobbit 
 Several important main characters in those books are hobbits, such as Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins.
Hobbit 
 Hobbits (or similar beings) have become very popular and are now often used in fantasy fiction and (video) games.
Hobbit 
 Hobbits are a peaceful people and live a simple, pre-industrial life in the land which they call The Shire, and also in Bree-land.
Hobbit 
 Originally these were underground in hills, then the house was called a smial; but this architecture(style of building) is also used for 'normal' houses above ground.
Bilbo Baggins 
 Bilbo Baggins was greeted by Gandalf the Grey and a group of 13 Dwarves known as the Company of Thorin Oakenshield.
Bilbo Baggins 
 Decades after returning from Erebor, he celebrated his 111th birthday as well as his nephew Frodo's birthday.
Bilbo Baggins 
 In Peter Jackson's movie adaptations of both books, Bilbo was played by Martin Freeman when he was younger and Ian Holm when he was older.
Middle-earth 
 Although Middle-earth is only one continent in Tolkien's world, it is often used for the whole fictional world and all stories Tolkien invented for it.
Middle-earth 
 Tolkien created and worked on Middle-earth through most of his life, and it is this creation for which he is most famous.
Middle-earth 
 Middle-earth has its own geography, several different species and peoples (elves, dwarves, humans, hobbits), their languages, and a history that spans thousands of years.
Middle-earth 
 "Middle-earth" is called Endor (or Endóre) and Ennor in the fictional Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin.
Middle-earth 
 Sometimes, when big historical events happen, a new Age is begun, which starts counting again with the year 1.
Middle-earth 
 First Age: The First Age can be divided into the "First Age of the Trees" and the "First Age of the Sun".
Middle-earth 
 First Age of the Sun (590 years): Begins with the creation of the Sun and Moon, and ends with the War of Wrath, the final imprisonment of Morgoth and the destruction of Beleriand.
Middle-earth 
 Fourth Age: Follows the defeat of Sauron and the One Ring, but starts officially when the Bearers of the Rings left for the West.
Middle-earth 
 During this Age the Elves become less and leave, while the humans become the dominant people of Middle-earth.
Arnold Rosé 
 All four boys were musical and so his parents decided to move to Vienna which was a big city in Austria where there was lots of music.
Arnold Rosé 
 When he was ten he was good enough to study the violin at the Vienna Conservatorium which was a special school for musical pupils.
Arnold Rosé 
 In 1881 he played a violin solo with a famous orchestra and famous conductor: the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter.
Arnold Rosé 
 He like to play string quartets and he got together with three other players to make up the Rosé Quartet.
Arnold Rosé 
 They were very good and for more than half a century people said they were the best string quartet in Europe.
Arnold Rosé 
 Rosé knew the composer Johannes Brahms and they played some of Brahms’s compositions when they had only just been written, e.g. the clarinet quintet (for clarinet and string quartet).
Arnold Rosé 
 The Rosé Quartet also knew the composer Schoenberg and helped him to get well known by playing his music.
Arnold Rosé 
 He was given the title of Royal and Imperial Court Musician, and he had a special court carriage to take him to the opera.
Pontiac Silverdome 
 The largest crowds to come to the stadium were for WrestleMania III on March 29, 1987, where the main event was a match between Hulk Hogan and André the Giant.
Estonian language 
 The Estonian language is similar to Finnish and is one of the few national languages of Europe not to be an Indo-European language.
Chromosome 
 The mother's eggs always contain an X chromosome, while the father's sperm contains either a Y chromosome or an X chromosome.
Chromosome 
 To produce sex cells (gametes), the stem cells go through a different division process called meiosis.
Chromosome 
 If a person does not have the usual number of chromosomes, they may die or have one or more peculiarities.
Chromosome 
 For example, they might get a genetic disorder like Down syndrome (extra chromosome 21) and Klinefelter syndrome (a male with two X chromosomes).
Chromosome 
 Polytene chromosomes form when multiple rounds of replication produce many sister chromatids that are stuck together in parallel.
Chromosome 
 They also occur in arthropods of the class Collembola,  Ciliate protozoa, early stages of mammalian embryos, and suspensor cells in plants.
Chromosome 
 In Drosophila, for example, the chromosomes of the larval salivary glands undergo many rounds of endoreduplication.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 Giovanni Gabrieli (probably born Venice (date unknown), about 1553 - 57; died 21 August 1612, in Venice) was an Italian organist and composer.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 About 1575, Giovanni began working for Orlando di Lasso at the Bavarian court, as his uncle Andres Gabrieli had before him.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 Little is known of his time in Munich, and he left in 1579 after the death of his patron, Duke Albrecht.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 That year he replaced organist Claudio Merulo at Basilica di San Marco, church of Venice's patron saint.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 Due to Merulo's resignation, a contest was eventually held January 1, 1585 to fill his post, which Gabrieli won, having already occupied the position anyway.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 Giovanni and his uncle, who had raised him and taught him music, worked together only a short time at the church before Andres died in August 1585.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 Also in 1585 Giovanni had been appointed as organist of Scuola Grande di San Rocco, where he composed ceremonial music.
Giovanni Gabrieli 
 Giovanni is well known for being one of the first composers who specified volume markings and instrumentation in music.
Arcangelo Corelli 
 Arcangelo Corelli (b.Fusignano, Imola, 17 Feb.1653; d.Rome, 8 Jan.1713) was an Italian violinist and composer.
Henry Purcell 
 His compositions include church music, instrumental music, music for the theatre, even popular drinking songs.
Henry Purcell 
 He liked Italian and French music, and combined those styles to make something that was typically English.
Henry Purcell 
 In 1664, Henry Purcell senior died and the widow took her children to live with her brother in law, Thomas Purcell, who was very kind to them.
Henry Purcell 
 He also wrote church music, including an anthem for a singer called John Gostling who had a very good, deep bass voice.
Henry Purcell 
 In 1680, Blow, who had been made organist of Westminster Abbey in 1669, resigned so that the 22-years-old Purcell could have his job.
Henry Purcell 
 Later he went back to writing music for the theatre, including the first English opera Dido and Aeneas.
Henry Purcell 
 In 1685, he wrote two of his finest anthems, "I was glad" and "My heart is inditing", for the coronation of King James II.
Henry Purcell 
 Sometimes this music was for masques (a kind of ballet with some singing as well), sometimes it was music for tragedies, e.g. plays by Dryden.
Henry Purcell 
 In 1692, he composed songs and music for The Fairy-Queen (an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Henry Purcell 
 Purcell's Te Deum and Jubilate was written for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1693, the first English Te Deum ever composed with orchestral accompaniment.
Henry Purcell 
 People were therefore very glad to be able to make music again, and they wanted lots of songs and instrumental music in their plays.
Henry Purcell 
 In Europe opera was very popular in countries such as Italy, Germany and France, but it did not become popular in England until Handel came to England in 1709 and introduced Italian opera.
Henry Purcell 
 Dido and Aeneas is an exception because it is a real opera: everything is sung, and the words are in English.
Henry Purcell 
 Although Purcell was recognized as a great composer at the time he did not have much influence on other composers after his death.
Henry Purcell 
 In the 18th century the music heard in England was largely imported from the continent, e.g. Italian opera.
Henry Purcell 
 Benjamin Britten wrote a piece called The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra which is based on a tune from Purcell's Abdelazar.
Henry Purcell 
 The aria "I know a bank" from Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream is inspired by Purcell's aria "Sweeter than Roses".
Henry Purcell 
 Sir Michael Tippett loved Purcell’s harmonies and rhythms and they influenced him in his compositions.
François Couperin 
 François Couperin (born in Paris on 10 November 1668; died in Paris, on 12 September 1733) was a French composer who lived in the Baroque period.
François Couperin 
 He is often called François Couperin le Grand (The Great) because he was the most famous of the Couperin family.
François Couperin 
 He wrote several pieces which he called Ordres meaning the same as the word suite i.e. a collection of dance movements.
Christoph Willibald von Gluck 
 Orfeo ed Euridice includes song “Che farò senza Euridice” which is one of the best-known opera songs ever written.
Jan Ladislav Dussek 
 Jan Ladislav Dussek (b. Ĉáslav, Bohemia, 12 Feb.1760; d.Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 20 March 1812) was a Bohemian composer of the Classical period.
Johannes Brahms 
 He thought that people were expecting him to be the “next Beethoven”, and spent many years on his first symphony before he allowed it to be performed.
Johannes Brahms 
 In the end, he wrote four symphonies altogether, as well as four concertos and a number of choral works, including a requiem.
Johannes Brahms 
 One of his best known songs is Wiegenlied ("cradle song"), often called "Brahms' Lullaby," which is often heard in music boxes.
Johannes Brahms 
 When Brahms played in a public concert in 1843 an American agent asked him to tour America, but his teacher realized he was too young.
Johannes Brahms 
 He also started to compose, and he sent some of his compositions to Robert Schumann to ask for his advice.
Johannes Brahms 
 They went on tour together and met famous people such as the composer Franz Liszt and the violinist Joseph Joachim who became a close friend of Brahms for many years.
Johannes Brahms 
 Schumann liked Brahms and could see that he was going to be a great composer, so he wrote an article in his music journal about him.
Johannes Brahms 
 Schumann turned out to be correct: Brahms did become a famous composer and found “new paths” (new ways of composing).
Johannes Brahms 
 He continued to be in love with her after Robert Schumann’s death, and they had a close relationship, though Brahms became interested in other women and was briefly engaged.
Johannes Brahms 
 His First Piano Concerto was a great success in Hanover and Hamburg, but not in Leipzig, where a lot of people preferred the wildly Romantic music of Liszt which was quite different from Brahms’s style based on the Classical music style.
Johannes Brahms 
 For a short time he was director of a choir called the Vienna Singakademie, who sang some of his compositions.
Johannes Brahms 
 He became more and more famous as a composer, but he was never very good at conducting, and in 1875 a conductor called Hans Richter took over conducting the concerts.
Johannes Brahms 
 During these years he finished one of his greatest works: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), as well as one of his most popular works: the Variations on the St Anthony chorale (sometimes wrongly known as Variations on a Theme by Haydn).
Johannes Brahms 
 He wrote his last symphony (Fourth Symphony) in 1885 and conducted it, going on tour with the orchestra through Germany and the Netherlands.