Clarion (instrument)Clarion is a name for a high-pitched trumpet used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also a name for a 4' organ reed stop that produces a high-pitched or clarion-like…View analysis →
GwalarnGwalarn ("Northwesterly") was a Breton language literary journal. By extension, the term refers to the style of literature that it encouraged. 166 issues (numbered from 0 to 165)…View analysis →
Finger snappingSnapping (or clicking) is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one's fingers. Primarily, this is done by building tension between the thumb and another (middle…View analysis →
CircolocoCircoloco is a dance party that is held at the DC10 nightclub in Ibiza, Spain, as well as other various locations globally. Circoloco features musical artists from the genres of…View analysis →
VanitasVanitas is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the uselessness of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly…View analysis →
MurgaMurga is a form of popular musical theatre performed in Argentina, Panama, Spain and Uruguay during the Carnival season. Murga groups also operate in the Buenos Aires Carnival…View analysis →
ArchluteThe archlute (Spanish: archilaúd, Italian: arciliuto, German: Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large…View analysis →
Border pipesThe border pipes are a type of bagpipe related to the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe. It is perhaps confusable with the Scottish smallpipe, although it is a quite different and…View analysis →
KobyzThe kobyz or qobyz, also known as the kylkobyz, is an ancient Turkic bowed string instrument, spread among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Bashkirs, and Tatars. The Kyrgyz variant is…View analysis →
Batá drumThe bàtá drum is a double-headed hourglass drum with one end larger than the other. The percussion instrument is still used for its original purpose as it is one of the most…View analysis →
Apparent source widthApparent source width (ASW) refers to the perceived spatial extent of a sound source. This psychoacoustic phenomenon is influenced by both the sound radiation pattern of the…View analysis →
Basso continuoBasso continuo is a harmonic musical structure, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), that generally consisted of a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is…View analysis →
Sam CreeSamuel Raymond Cree (1928–1980) was a Northern Irish playwright. During the 1960s and 1970s he wrote several long running and popular plays for comedians James Young and Jimmy…View analysis →
Counter-flowCounter-flow (also called contraflow) is the movement of culture running counter to the traditional dominant-to-dominated ("West to rest") cultural adaptation patterns. In a…View analysis →
TonnetzIn musical tuning and harmony, the Tonnetz (German for 'tone net') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard Euler in 1739. Various…View analysis →
KakegoeKakegoe (掛け声) usually refers to shouts and calls used in performances of traditional Japanese music, kabuki theatre, and in martial arts such as kendo.View analysis →
DengakuDengaku (田楽) were rustic Japanese celebrations that can be classified into two types: dengaku that developed as a musical accompaniment to rice planting observances, and the…View analysis →
Alifuru peopleThe Alifuru, Alfur, Alfurs, Alfuros, Alfures, Aliforoes, or Horaforas (Dutch: Alfoeren) is a collective term for the indigenous people of mixed Melanesian and Austronesian…View analysis →
Gem SpaGem Spa was a newspaper stand and candy store located on the corner of St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It opened…View analysis →
MatatuIn Kenya, matatu or matatus (known as mathree in Sheng) are privately owned minibuses used as share taxis. Often decorated, many matatus feature portraits of famous people or…View analysis →
ScheitholtThe scheitholt or scheitholz is a traditional German stringed instrument and an ancestor of the modern zither. It falls into the category of drone zithers.View analysis →
ToroganA torogan (lit. 'resting place' or 'sleeping place') is a type of pre-colonial vernacular house of the Maranao people of the Philippines. A torogan was a symbol of high social…View analysis →
CrouchenCrouchen is a white South African and Australian wine grape variety that originated in the western Pyrenees of France but is now virtually extinct in France due to its high…View analysis →
Peter OswaldPeter Charles Patrick Oswald (born 1965) is an English playwright specialising in verse drama. He was a resident at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London from 1998 to 2009.View analysis →
PlastererA plasterer is a tradesperson who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. The process of…View analysis →
PP-2000The PP-2000 (Russian: ПП-2000) is a submachine gun made by the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.View analysis →
Individualistic cultureIndividualistic cultures are characterized by individualism, which is the prioritization or emphasis of the individual over the entire group. In individualistic cultures, people…View analysis →
PazoA pazo (Galician: ) is a type of Galician traditional house. Similar to a manor house, pazos are usually located in the countryside, as former residences of important people in…View analysis →
Design elementsDesign elements are the foundation of any visual design. These include color, line, shape, texture, space, form and value.View analysis →
Frequency counterA frequency counter is an electronic instrument, or component of one, that is used for measuring frequency. Frequency counters usually measure the number of cycles of oscillation…View analysis →
AltoThe musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (from Latin: altus), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In…View analysis →
Clouds HillClouds Hill is an isolated early 19th-century cottage near Wareham in the county of Dorset in South West England. It is the former home of T. E. Lawrence. The cottage is a Grade…View analysis →
Fancy danceFancy dance, Pan-Indian dancing, Fancy Feather or Fancy War Dance is a style of dance some believe was originally created by members of the Ponca tribe in the 1920s and 1930s, in…View analysis →
Percussion malletA percussion mallet is an object used to strike a percussion instrument to produce its sound. A mallet is normally held in the hand while a [clarification needed] may be manually…View analysis →
Through-the-lens meteringIn photography, through-the-lens metering (TTL metering) refers to a feature of cameras whereby the intensity of light reflected from the scene is measured through the lens; as…View analysis →
Bickleigh, Mid DevonBickleigh is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England, about four miles south of Tiverton. The 2021 census recorded a population of 339.View analysis →
