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instrument

Music; General music

Mechanism that generates musical vibrations and transmits them into the air.

Country dance of British Isles, often in a lively triple meter; optional dance movement of solo and orchestral Baroque suite; a type of duple meter hornpipe remains popular in Irish traditional dance ...

harpsichord

Music; General music

Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano. Also clavecin.

imitation

Music; General music

Compositional technique in which a melodic idea is presented in one voice (or part), then restated in another while the first voice continues with new material.

idiophone

Music; General music

World music classification for instruments that produce sound from the substance of the instrument itself by being struck, blown, shaken, scraped or rubbed. The most common Western instruments in ...