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101Musical nationalism — refers to the use of musical ideas or motifs that are identified with a specific country, region, or ethnicity, such as folk tunes and melodies, rhythms, and harmonies inspired by them. Musical nationalism can also include the use of folklore as… …
102Fortingall — is a small village in highland Perthshire, Scotland, in the glen (or valley) of the River Lyon. Place name Gaelic Fartairchill , church at the foot (ie. of the hill slope behind the village). Its nearest sizable neighbours are Aberfeldy and… …
103Domestic sheep — taxobox name = Domestic sheep status = DOM image width = 250px image caption = A research flock at U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Bovidae… …
104Robert Hughes (composer) — Robert Watson Hughes AO MBE (27 March 1912 – 1 August 2007) was a Scottish born Australian composer. His music was characterised as muscular, assertive, pugnacious, with a dark, troubled, even driven quality; but it was also deeply sensitive,… …
105William Hardie — William Ross Hardie (6 January 1862 3 May 1916) was a Scottish classical scholar, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University from 1895 until his death.Early lifeHardie was born in Edinburgh in 1862 and educated there at Circus Place School and …
106New Brunswick — n. 1. a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 664,525; 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Cap.: Fredericton. 2. a city in central New Jersey. 41,442. * * * Province (pop., 2001: 729,498), one of the four Maritime Provinces, eastern Canada. Bordered by… …
107Beethoven, Ludwig van — (baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) German composer. Born to a musical family, he was a precociously gifted pianist and violist. After nine years as a court musician in Bonn, he moved to… …
108Art, Antiques, and Collections — ▪ 2003 Introduction In 2002 major exhibitions such as Documenta 11 reflected the diverse nature of contemporary art: artists from a variety of cultures received widespread recognition for work ranging from installation to video to painting …
109philosophy, Western — Introduction history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present. This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate… …
110Diaphoneme — In linguistics, a diaphoneme or diaphone is a phoneme viewed through its dialectal variants, called diaphonic variants or diaphonic allophones.[1] For example, the vowel that constitutes the English word eye /aɪ/ is pronounced d …
