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quadruple stop

Music; General music

Playing four notes simultaneously on a string instrument.

bell tree

Music; General music

Long stick with bells suspended from it, adopted from Janissary music.

mbube

Music; General music

Lion; a cappella choral singing style of South African Zulus, featuring call and response patterns, close-knit harmonies and syncopation.

third

Music; General music

Interval between two notes that are two diatonic scale steps apart.

double bass

Music; General music

Largest and lowest-pitched member of the bowed string family. Also called contrabass or bass viol.

quadruplum

Music; General music

Fourth voice of a polyphonic work.

bellows

Music; General music

An apparatus for producing air currents in certain wind instruments (accordion, bagpipe).

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