The organ is an instrument that dates back to the third century B.C. The man credited for this invention is Ctesibius of Alexandria who invented an instrument called the hydraulis, which used wind maintained through water pressure to some pipes. Organs are most likely found in churches and are used during the services. Its divine pitch imitates that of a human voice and creates a beautiful sound that many find pleasing. There are three types of organs, non-piped, electronic, and mechanical organs. Non-piped organs are much like accordions and harmonicas. Electronic organs make electronically produced sounds through speakers. Then the mechanical organs are controlled usually by pinned barrels or book music.
The organ is a keyboard instrument with one or more manuals, and usually a pedal board. Manuals are keyboards you play with your hands and pedal boards are keyboards that people play with their feet. The organ’s sound output is continuous and constant for as long as a key is depressed. It is up to the player to determine how long a key is depressed. A good thing about organs, is that the volume of the organ’s sound does not depend on how hard you strike the keyboard. A person can gently stroke the keys and it does not affect the volume or note that the organ makes. Pianos are very different however. A piano’s volume can be raised and lowered depending on the force you use to strike the keys. There are many types of organs with different purposes including the church organ, concert organ, pipe organs, chamber organs, theatre organs, reed organs, chord organs, electronic organs and more!
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...The feature of not only having a keyboard but also a pedal board gives them more of an advantage than a pianist. Plus the tone of the organ doesn’t fade as you hold down the key like a piano. It makes it so the sound is constant and is last without decay. Organs can have multiple key boards which also makes it unique because you could be playing two different sounds with both hands. Organs are also unique because they are not portable. They have to be built for the room they are going to be in so there are not many alike at all most the time.
Organs are a very old and sophisticated instrument. The design and sound is very unique compared to other instruments. From the sizes and uses of the organ, you can use them just about anywhere and enjoy it. It is probably one of the best instruments invented from the sound it makes to its structure and build.
The piano is the most commonly known and most used. The saxophone has the ability to produce a unique sound. The clarinet has a reed connected to the mouthpiece, which the player blows through to create music. The trumpet is another a popular instrument. The trombone is descended from the trumpet that’s with played in bass clef or treble clef. With the larger size the double bass, the player usually has to stand up. The drums include the bass drum, snare drum, and cymbals. Last but not least, it’s good to have a vocalist because songs will sound
Over an extensive amount of time, the piano has developed into what we commonly see today. Through the improvement in the production of dynamics and the development of the pedals, it has become a popular instrument that is used for a variety of genres apart from classical music, such as jazz and contemporary. There are a variety of models available, such as the grand piano, where the harpsichord and forte piano originated from, as well as the upright piano.
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An artificial organ can replace the non-functioning organ temporarily while the patient is waiting for a real organ to be ready. Artificial organs are becoming more popular due to the low price when compared to the real organs. The list of patients waiting for an organ transplant increases greatly each hour. Thousands of people die waiting for a transplant. Doctors are trying to figure out other ways, like artificial organs, that are faster and could save hundreds of people.
A organ donation is where you take the healthy tissue from one person and transplant is to another person. The types of organs that can be donated are kidneys, heart, liver,pancreas, intestines, lungs, skin, bone marrow, and cornea. Your liver, kidneys, and bone marrow can be donated by a living donor. Your lung, heart, pancreas, intestines, and cornea come from a deceased organ donation. Database has listed al...
<td width="50%">Baroque OrchestrasClassical OrchestrasString section and basso continuo central to the orchestra. Other instruments are occasional additions.Standard group of four sections: strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Different instruments treated individually.Fairly small; generally 10- 40 players.Larger than baroque; great variation to the numbers of players.Flexible use of timbres, e.g. Timpani and trumpets used generally just for festive music.Standardised sections. Most sections used regularly.Tone colour is distinctly secondary to other musical elements.Greater variety of tone colour and more rapid changes of colour. Timbre is unimportant and therefore a piece written for harpsichord could easily be rearranged for a string section.Each section of the classical orchestra has a special role. And each instrument is used distinctively.Wind instruments mainly used as solo instruments or as part of the basso continuo.The wind section had become a separate unit capable of contrast and distinct colour.The harpsichord generally plays an ostinato under the orchestra. Piano not invented.The piano introduces a third colour-tone to be contrasted with the orchestra
The 10th century organum features a duplicated fourth, fifth, or octave below the plainchant melody in the principal voice. The duplicated voice moves in oblique and/or contrary motion, with a multitude of intervals interspersed. In addition to oblique and contrary motion, there is parallel motion, and similar motion. All of these types of motion can be featured in an organum, however in the 10th century, oblique and contrary were the most typical. An example of a 10th century organum can be found in Musica enchiriadis. Musica enchiriadis is an anonymous treatise that was the first of its kind to describe polyphony. It set up a system of guidelines for polyphony, and it included many examples of the organum. While the examples in Musica enchiriadis are mere teachings and instructions on how to sing an organum, some of the earliest examples of organums ever recorded exist within the treatise.
“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!” a quote from Frederic Chopin. Similar to Chopin, a copius amount of musicians utilized their instruments of choice in order to express their emotions or feelings. During the Baroque Period both the clavichord and the harpsichord reigned as the most popular keyboard instrument of choice. However, by the end of the Baroque Period the piano had replaced both keyboards as being the most popular and widely used (Verotta). The piano has been derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord which had evolved continuously through the combined effort of keyboard makers.
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Organ Sale is the exchange of human organs for money. This topic is very debatable because some people view organ sales as morally wrong mainly due to the view that only the wealthy will be able to afford the purchase of organs. In addition, many believe those living in poverty will be taken advantage of because they need the money. The selling of human organs can be beneficial to everybody and should be legal. By making organ sales legal it will give individual donors a better financial life, create a safer environment for those who sell their organs, make organ transplants available to more people and most importantly will save many lives.
To fully understand any musical style, one must be able to analyze the various elements of music as they exist in that particular style. In this first musical close-up, we shall briefly describe these elements of music. In subsequent musical close-ups, we shall examine one or another of these elements in greater detail as it pertains to a given style or topic.
It all began in ancient times with the creation of the psalterion, a dulcimer-like instrument. It consisted of a box shape with wire strings tuned to play a scale across it. Wooden hammers held in the hands were used to strike the strings to create music. Next came the clavichord. The clavichord had a keyboard added which was used to strike the strings by means of small copper plates. The clavietherium, coming next, used gut strings instead of wire, and they were played upon by leather hammers attached to keys. The virginal was also a keyed instrument, but in this case it used quills attached to the ends of the keys or levers to vibrate metallic strings. Composers such as Palestrina, and Byrd used the Virginal in the Renaissance. Even Queen Elizabeth herself played the Virginal. Next came the Spinet, which, similarly to the Virginal, used quills to vibrate the strings. The idea of a square pianoforte was likely to have been come from the Spinet, The Harpsichord, which was of a slightly similar shape to the modern grand piano, came after the Spinet. It used crow-quills connected to a key by means of a “jack” to play the strings. It had two keyboards; with one an octave higher than the other. A...
When people think of the saxophone, some items that come to mind are jazz music, golden metal, and Kenny G. The saxophone consists of these, but it is also so much more. Playing the saxophone is a great experience that everyone should try. Although playing the saxophone may take some money and time, it is a great investment because it is a unique instrument with many benefits.
Many people believe that organ donation is a good thing, and it should be practiced for various reasons. One reason may be that through organ donation, many lives can be saved. Sometimes it’s just one organ that fails, and by receiving that organ from a person they can continue to live as they had been before. This may extend their life for many decades. Organ donation can also provide a sense of comfort. The family of the deceased may feel better knowing that even after their loved one is dead, his/her organs are still alive and helping others. It may also make living donors feel better about themselves since they may have given someone a new life with their organ. Organ donation also helps medical students practice medicine and helps them become better doctors. For
Organ donation is when someone who has died, has previously given permission for their organs to be taken from their body and transplanted into someone else?s who because of some sort of medical condition, can not survive off of their own. At the time of death one?s heart, intestine, kidneys, liver, lung, pancreas, pancreas islet cell, heart valves, bone, skin, corneas, veins, cartilage, and tendons can all be used for transplantation. Choosing to donate organs is beneficial to many people, morally the right thing to do when you pass on and, is also one of the most important ways for survival of many people. Organ donation is often perceived with doubt because many people do not know the truth. There are many myths out about the donating of organs that cause many people to opt not to.