| 单词 | instrument |
| 例句 | I fiddle with metal instruments on a nearby cart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But before the new genre could become a universally addictive sensation it needed to undergo some fine-tuning, particularly in its choice of instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His thumbnail twanged the flat iron keys of the instrument, and the sound resonated inside the calabash on his knees. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Swords, axes, machetes, spears, and crude instruments that resembled primitive torture devices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For sheer technological complexity, though, no sixteenth-century instrument comes near the organ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Keyboard instruments were quite unique in that they had soft and loud settings - but no way of moving smoothly between the two. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I wonder what questions they are asking Papa right now, and I wish there were a way to get his instrument back to him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Well now,” he cackles and takes up his instrument again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard was beginning to see these contraptions as the instrument of his ambition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cowbell, for example, is an instrument that has another purpose besides its musical one. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It took a long time to get the instruments to Benatky, and the castle had to be adapted to make a suitable observatory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The instrument commonly called the "piano" by the way, was originally called a "pianoforte" because it could play dynamics, unlike earlier popular keyboard instruments like the harpsichord and spinet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As my left boot reached the top of the instrument panel, it snagged briefly on something, and I began a slow face-down pitching motion. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z You are to give him your loyal support and regard him as the new instrument of the committee's authority . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The drummer’s hair was a black blur as he beat on the instrument. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was early, and there were a few musicians with their instruments talking outside the Apollo. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z With trig under our belt, all we would need to do was build some instruments to measure angles and we would be able to calculate how high our rockets flew. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So everyone had to leave some of their belongings behind—tents, surveying instruments, and clothes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Ms. Parker, you didn’t leave the instrument closet unlocked,” someone shouts. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z For other instruments, such as guitar59 , it means sliding through all of the possible notes between the two written pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Just think of the rack, the medieval instrument of torture. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This may seem counterintuitive, but remember, you are basically compensating for the transposition that is "built into" the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Using an instrument called a sextant, the navigator can measure the height of the star above the horizon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Listen to recordings of different instruments playing alone or playing very prominently above a group. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He put the beautifully curved instrument on his shoulder, barely touched the strings, and a long, lovely melody filled the air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z People were standing around, chatting, laughing nervously, instead of warming up their instruments. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The pitchfork tines straightened, and all the instruments returned to their original places. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Each instrument class will play one piece, and the choir will sing,” Ms. Parker explains. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The professor adjusted the lampshade so that the light fell full on the stool, and took the instrument out of its box. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I’d been struck by this picture because the guillotine looked like such a precision instrument, perfect and gleaming. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The Ancient Greeks invented one of the most influential instruments of all time: the organ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Dusky Devastators of the Depression were still putting their instruments on the stage, waiting for Miss Thomas and Mr. Jimmy and Herman E. Calloway. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Fourth of July. They were out on Ernie’s porch, playing their instruments.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I got to ride with the band while Mr. Jimmy and Herman E. Calloway and the instruments were riding in the Packard. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Their wings were long and graceful instruments of speed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Very gradually, like one instrument after another being tentatively rehearsed, beacons of color began to pierce the sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z How long have I been in the instrument closet? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Open instrument cases sat on chairs and were strewn across the floor, along with dozens of backpacks. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Every Easter we had to perform at the New Brown Church, playing our instruments or reciting a story from the Bible for the entire church congregation. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z You realize there is a need for something to help you see sraf and instantly, out of the materials we have known for thousands of years, you put together an instrument to do so. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The same terms used to identify vocal ranges are also often used to identify particular instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This is the part of the range where the instrument or voice is particularly strong. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His instruments, too, he fixed to the framework with close attention, even the compass, whose needle was swinging around the dial quite uselessly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor lifted the lower half of her burqa and produced a metallic, cone-shaped instrument. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It is the instrument that men played in military marching bands. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Having children play Orff instruments and classroom instruments as sound effects using the aesthetics above, would add greatly to the stories, as would composing an original song for the stories. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He designed new instruments, capable of an exquisite precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He wanted to hang up but something made him hold the instrument to his ear, waiting. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All of which is particularly frustrating for us, since we have so much evidence of the wonderful-looking instruments of the Ancient World, but no way of bringing them to life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Transpose C parts up one whole step for B flat instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On January 31, 1985, in a debate in Parliament, the state president publicly offered me my freedom if I “unconditionally rejected violence as a political instrument.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence could also take pride in the cyclotron’s improved reputation as a reliable laboratory instrument. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I loaded all of the instruments into the Packard, sat on a big rock and took out my recorder to practice. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He folded the velvet over the instrument and thrust it into her hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t be ashamed with me; I’m just an instrument of God.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he takes the battery, two rectangles of sheet metal, some penny nails, and the instrument hammer from his box. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The beloved instrument, seldom touched now had not been moved, and above it Beth’s face, serene and smiling, as in the early days, looked down upon them, seeming to say, “Be happy. I am here.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the 1590s, the instrument was selling so well that for a short time Galileo had to employ a skilled workman to make them for him. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “The eye ward, I guess. They have all the big instruments up there.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z If they were spotted, the plan was to go to school and fake out their schedules as best they could, having neither books in their bags nor musical instruments in their cases. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached under the kitchen table and pulled out one of those funny-looking suitcases that the band kept all their instruments in. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The clapping is even louder than the music—I clamp my legs around my instrument so that I can cover my ears. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Thinking about the source of sound production and materials will lead you to the field of organology, or the classification of musical instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But Kepler had worked with Tycho Brahe, who had devised new instruments capable of measuring with astonishing accuracy to a single minute. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “That stands for do-it-yourself, and that includes learning how to play an instrument.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z When a note was for violin or ’cello or flute she would write the name of the instrument to show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The Augurs suspect my interference. My...instruments are not as subtle as I’d hoped.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Once she got her fingers moving she peeled off the wax, then grabbed the cauterizing instrument and held the sharp tip of it under the flame until it turned a painful shade of bright red. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Something very significant can be found both in the Buxheim organ book and on the instrument at the basilica of Valere: the indication to play a line of music on the pedals, with the feet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Or that he did not give her the use of their own instrument—which must now be shut up in London, untouched by any body.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Organize instruments, props, AV equipment, etc. to permit wheelchair access. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Thus a bugle player can play any note in the harmonic series of the instrument that falls within the player's range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Carl Orff came across an African xylophone, and developed a way to transform the xylophone into an instrument for the children at the school to play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I ran out of room long before I could mention my outdated surgical instruments. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A musical instrument called a regal stood on the table between them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from replaying the tune on your own instrument, how could you prove you were really listening? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When the instrument was together, she took a seat on the piano bench and began to play. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Instrumentalists with transposing instruments will usually need any part they play to be properly transposed before they can play it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Although it may be challenging for teachers to find adaptive instruments to suit the individual needs of their students,” Sobol says, “the music market catalog offerings are expanding.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Right there across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments while we keep on living like donkeys.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Societies attribute masculinity to different genres of music, instruments, and what musicians should look like when performing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I wish his telescopes and mathematical instruments, however, may secure his felicity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I had to read measuring markings on my machine, and sometimes I simply couldn't; the fine lines on the instruments looked like tiny wiggly worms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But he stirred it vigorously until it became glossy white, holding the spatula like a delicate instrument and studying the paint as it laced off the blade, back into the bucket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these instruments relied, at least in part, on glass manufacturing skills and provided visual information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The doctor spoke in a low, curt voice to the nurse, and she hurried to a side table and brought back some rolls of gauze and silver instruments. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z But those near him were silent, intent upon the music of the voices and the instruments, and they gave no heed to anything else. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Immediately the instruments that were playing stopped, and at once all color vanished. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I begged that if he might grant me an instrument and three minutes’ audition, I hoped that he would not find his time poorly used. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Deb says, and I realize I’d rather play a sweet instrument than a gross one. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z They do allow writing instruments in the rec room, but they are under constant guard by the pastels. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I’ve given it a tetanus shot,” said the doctor, putting away his instruments. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There are a few experimental twangs and booms from behind the curtain as the instruments are plugged in and tested. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We gathered our instruments, minus the drum set we’d borrowed from the band room, and left the auditorium. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A trocar being a sheathed sort of ice pick instrument you stab into the bellies of foundering ruminants to let out the deadly gases. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “So if you don’t practice your instrument every day, you will quickly lose your position.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All the other instruments took turns trying to interrupt the conversation, but in the end it was Miss Thomas’s voice and Steady’s saxophone doing the talking that you really wanted to listen to. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Several people had followed up Galileo’s lead by the 1660s and, as we have seen, Malpighi in particular had already made important discoveries, especially those concerning the circulation of the blood, with the new instrument. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This site would be helpful to those learning new instruments, as well as experienced musicians who are just looking for some new music to play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Voices and instruments with higher ranges usually learn to read treble clef, while voices and instruments with lower ranges usually learn to read bass clef. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She took a deep, shuddering breath and turned the instrument around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His images are all twisted together and overlapping, like when I hear music with a lot of different instruments. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Egyptian art is rife with depictions of musicians and their instruments, suggesting that music was an important feature of public and private life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But with the threat gone and his family arrived from Dresden, Tycho began to settle in at the castle, sending his eldest son back to Denmark to fetch four large observing instruments from Hveen. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He glanced at a photo of his dog, tucked into the instrument panel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I sweep the broad-sided metal instrument across the bridge of her nose. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So Tycho worked out a table of corrections for the instrument from which he could read off the correct measurement corresponding to the incorrect reading obtained by the cross-staff for any observation he made. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Navigating using instruments without being able to see the ground was known in the early days of aviation as “blind flying.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Quite possibly she made it up. Those who use these instruments have studied for many years, and even then they can only understand them with the help of many books of reference.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I stuck close to Miles, because there I didn’t feel the need to check every instrument for contraband items and Communist propaganda. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She has five different colors of nail polish and all kinds of surgical-looking instruments. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z NOTE: Trombones77 still use a slide instead of valves to make their instrument longer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There are many creative ways to use these inexpensive instruments to help and inspire you, and which will fire up a child’s imagination. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Of course, he added, this was quite natural for a scientist who had achieved repeated triumphs with instruments scaled to fit on a laboratory bench. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Men were playing instruments taken from a music store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Muses had no instrument peculiar to them, but their voices were lovely beyond compare. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But archaeologists have had moderate success in unearthing other ancient instruments in all corners of the globe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I pick up the instrument like it’s a life preserver. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Blind flying” is what early aviators called air navigation using instruments in poor visibility. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Your harp is in a better state than you are,” said Eilonwy, taking the bard’s instrument from his shoulder and putting it in his lap. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z You have no clarinet player, but one group member plays recorder, a C instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Such instruments, however well constructed, could not make sufficiently exact measurements or calculations to test the limits of Ptolemaic astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was too tired to be amused at her uncle’s telephone manners: he viewed such instruments with deep anger and his conversations were monosyllabic at best. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Psalms sung by the priests of King David, who united the kingdoms of Israel and Judaea in 1003 bc, are riven through with references to instruments and to singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They may want to group instruments by their color, how big or small, and their shape. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Lee Scoresby wasn’t concerned for his comfort so much as for his instruments, and he spent some time making sure they were securely lashed to the main struts. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z So while cartography and navigational instruments taken in isolation are neutral devices, in practice they are part of a package of technologies that ensured Western global dominance for five hundred years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Do any of the instruments actually make you think of specific shades of color, like fire-engine red or sky blue? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Keys that avoid the wolf fifth sound just fine on instruments that are tuned this way, but keys in which the wolf fifth is often heard become a problem. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z An ostinato can be performed using body percussion, instruments or with the voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The old men all raised their instruments at once, and the room filled with a shock of horns over the gentle footsteps of conga drums. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z If she gave me a bloody nose for forgetting to sterilize her instruments, what will she do to me now? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we found them, we focused an instrument called a sextant on them, and measured their direction precisely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He told them about his father’s collection of guns and swords and torture instruments and leg irons and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear voices in the living room—a chorus of them, in fact, joined by occasional bursts of laughter and a faint melody plucked on an instrument, a banjo or a guitar. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The valuable things were books and records, surgical instruments and optical glass and such things that a practical working burglar wouldn’t look at twice. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One of those horn kind of instruments played a sad and silver tune. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was hard to even name some of the instruments because the sounds they made were so unusual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The instruments were the best that money could provide, and as the work of observing developed and more assistants came to the island to work with Tycho, a second observatory was built near by. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z What Hannah didn’t tell them was that her hands on the instrument felt instantly at home and at work in a way that they never had with the Oxford alethiometer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Likewise, even though we know that in early seventh-century China ‘orchestras’ of instruments played together, what they played is guesswork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For example, most four- and even five-year-olds are not yet able to play a steady beat on an instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “We used our instruments to find the nearest airport.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We lunched on a cold collation of duck and mutton shortly after noon; then betook ourselves to the instruments to observe the Transit. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z During practice sessions my sisters and I would eat potato chips, scowling at our hated instruments and speculating on the lives of our music teachers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The kids got band instruments, sports uniforms, and new books. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I follow him through the maze of old chairs and tables covered with tools to the instruments. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z How can I learn it without a teacher or an instrument to practice on? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The whole world clanged and chuffed with the machinery and instruments that their ingenuity had produced. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I enjoyed listening to music—but I couldn’t play an instrument. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Rather than a system, Schulwerk combines instruments, singing, movement, and speech to develop children’s innate musical abilities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The gleaming steel instruments in the examination room looked like tools Terrance Randall might have ordered from the blacksmith for sinister purposes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I can also play any other instrument I like, for as long as I want, within reason, without succumbing to the same worry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When she reached 18, it was a commercial license; two years later, she also had a flight instructor rating and an instrument rating. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Almost at once the Grievers had shut down completely, their instruments sucked back through their blubbery skin, their lights turned off, their inside machines dead quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He takes the instrument from me and places it in the case. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Before electricity made any of this possible, ‘A’ could be different pitches not just in different countries but also from town to town or even from instrument to instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We call it “instrument flying” now, and it’s much more complex and reliable than it was in the 1930s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All of us except for Fern waved furiously as the trumpets, trombones, tubas, flutes, and percussion instruments played the marching tune. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A pregnant woman smiled at her and moved slightly, making room; Claire recognized her as Jean, the wife of one of the fiddlers who were tuning their instruments and preparing to play for the dancing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That involved the invention of many new instruments for improved measurements on Earth and in the heavens—cross-staffs, sextants, quadrants—and it was driven by a new obsession with accuracy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But a brass player, without changing the length of the instrument, gets different notes by actually playing the harmonics of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I shall tell them that our courts, swamped with mawkish sentimentality, are no longer fit instruments to safeguard the public peace! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She drafted drawings of new flight instruments and prepared them for testing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Books, papers, shoes, football helmets, baseball bats, dolls, trucks, bicycles, musical instruments, lay everywhere and were used by everyone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad asks, “Do we have to rent an instrument?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z From his opened briefcase he fished out the Voigt-Kampff apparatus, seated himself at a nearby rosewood coffee table, and began to assemble the rather simple polygraphic instruments. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Seeking out common ancestors for similar types of instruments is in many cases complicated by the abundant exchange of commodities via trading routes that ran between Europe, North Africa and Asia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the room, a female graduate student evidently immune to the smell sat working on a spectrograph, an instrument for measuring electromagnetic radiation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch, for example. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Amanda stopped with a look of horror when they came to the door of the operating room: she had seen the instruments and the gynecological table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At three o’clock, however, the manager of the concession, G. F. Morgan, checked his instruments and noted a sudden decline in barometric pressure, evidence that a storm was forming. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With eight years to prepare, he erected a first-rate viewing station, tested and retested his instruments, and had everything in a state of perfect readiness. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I rub the instrument across her stomach again, and it flattens with each stroke, the extra skin and bulk beneath it melting away, her waist growing smaller. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His motivation for this work came from his interest in astronomy, where the need for accurate timekeeping had long been obvious, but was becoming more pressing as more accurate observing instruments were designed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The next morning, I pack a small satchel with bei powder, two smoothing instruments, and a few color pots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The easiest way to experiment on the Orff instruments is to begin with the pentatonic scale, a scale with only five pitches. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His insistence on being more precise than Archimedes goes back into his youth, when he had devised an instrument, the balincetta, which would make more exact measurements of specific gravities than any made before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “No, there isn’t. The other Oxford readers are honest scholars with sound academic reasons for using the instrument.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z This includes vocalists, most wind instruments, and many string instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But this couldn’t last—there was no way to stop other people copying the instrument and no way to prevent those who knew how to use it passing on their knowledge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z A song arrangement typically means adding voices such as making a choral arrangement or adding instruments to the melody such as a piano accompaniment or Orff accompaniment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Vocalists, wind instruments, and bowed strings are usually not part of the rhythm section. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On the day of Garfield's shooting, Drs. Townshend, Bliss, and Wales probed the president's bullet wound with unwashed fingers and unsterilized metal instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Mtolo said that while he had never lost faith in the ideals of the ANC, he did lose faith in the organization when he realized that it and MK were instruments of the Communist Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two men constructed an instrument that included batteries, coils of wire to carry electric current, and a telephone receiver. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When its badinage was completed, we picked up our instruments and began to play the overture for The Blockade of Boston. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z NOTE: The French horn79 has a reputation for being a "difficult" instrument to play. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then he took a small case with optical instruments out of the toolbox that he always carried with him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In this way, with my vocal cords as my instrument, I glide through the verses, wavering slightly at first, but getting stronger as I continue. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The best solution was to become a singer and leave the instruments to other people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps at the other end of the instrument some small, beetlelike man was listening intently— listening to that. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Next to me she laid out the Q-tips, a magnifying glass, the bottle of anesthetic, and the cauterizing instrument, which was a wooden handle with a six-inch-long thickish wire coming out of one end. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Descriptions of how each articulation is done cannot be given here, because they depend too much on the particular instrument that is making the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Idiophones produce sounds from the following methods and represent the largest category of classroom instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Below is a list of other ways to think about instruments besides the way the sound is produced, such as its timbre or similar sound; physical attributes, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Again and again they checked her with their instruments, metallic and cold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Membranophones are instruments in which the sound is produced by making a membrane vibrate; drums are the most familiar example. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Stoically, Le Gentil packed up his instruments and set off for the nearest port, but en route he contracted dysentery and was laid up for nearly a year. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Behind her, Tialys put away his instrument and sat watching the child plead with her own death to be taken where no one should go. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Uncle and Jedda-Boy took a couple of surveying instruments and discussed mud and sand and other important surveying matters. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Carved figures paraded around its edge, screaming or singing, holding weapons or ancient instruments, calling for the storm in the center—roiling clouds and lightning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you begged for them? Can I refuse you anything? Oh! you cannot deceive me,” and Mademoiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Ty opens the door, and the room is tiny twin beds and nothing else except this girl and her entire freaking family and what seems like every instrument ever invented. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z George and his trio huddled in the corner, tuning their instruments. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “But I don’t want to play those instruments. I want to play the piano. You know that.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Through barter and the generosity of a few friends, he soon owned a ragged collection of old stringed instruments—a mandolin, several guitars, an old ukulele, and two banjos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He later devised a better, table-top instrument and studied how flies could climb up glass. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Edie sang the song quick and cruel, with sharp metallic sounds from her instrument. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellie counted us down, but all three of them managed to start playing their instruments at different times, so we had to start over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z You didn’t have to buy a uniform or a musical instrument or pay any dues to work on the Wave. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Near at hand some kind of instrument was ticking slowly and regularly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dread of the perverted gynecologist and his inquisitorial instruments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ask students how they might label such instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “When we’re done, we can thrash our air instruments,” he jokes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Only Lee Scoresby was awake, calmly chewing a thin cigar and watching his instruments. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The orchestra arrives, and I await them by the door of the rehearsal room as they load in their instruments and hang their hats. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Good articulation comes naturally to the musician who has mastered the instrument and the style of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “It is a paradox. And it is uncomfortable. To go back to the instrument from Bologna for a moment: presumably it’s really a possession of Bologna University?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They had no instrument to calibrate how much punishment he could take. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Our ears, though, believe we have heard full chords, a whole accompaniment, from this one solitary instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Everyone is putting together instruments and blowing through mouthpieces. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I don’t want to see the other kids walking into the music school with their instruments. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z These instruments shared the ability to regenerate a held note seemingly endlessly, without a break for breath or a change in fingering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z A few people are picking up instruments to take home. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Scientists in Japan, England, India, the U.S., they're all looking at information from ten different instruments on board. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me want to dance and shout, and I could hear tinkling instruments somewhere in the distance as the man stepped into view. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Using a piano/keyboard, pitch pipe, or some other melodic instrument, find the correct starting pitch for the range of students in your class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Were you influenced by what instrument other girls or boys or professional musicians were playing? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z While each instrument is limited in range to fewer than two octaves, all together, from bass bars to soprano glockenspiel, the ensemble covers six octaves, creating an entire orchestra! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In his twenties now, Horace made a mechanical instrument that helped his father study how far a stone moved vertically. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For that reason, he urged doctors to wash their hands thoroughly and to sterilize hands and surgical instruments with carbolic acid. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But the En Cognito program ensures I understand how each instrument in that bag works. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After a while, still crouching between my legs, Luce turned his head to search for another instrument. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When he came to, it was in a different space, small, hot, close to the drumming of a gyropter engine, lit by the glow of an instrument panel. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Kepler found that if he removed his gloves his hands were soon too numb to manage his instrument; if he kept them on he could barely make the fine adjustments necessary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Of course, such a great instrument would involve large expenditures,” Lawrence said. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And the cleft lip, just left of midline, where the Chinese doll maker’s instrument may have slipped, or perhaps he had simply grown tired and careless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Leo had never played a musical instrument, but he imagined it must be like this—knowing each key or note so well that you didn’t really think about what your hands were doing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Navigation instruments were being designed, but no one really knew how accurate they would be, and they had to be very, very precise. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The board would fear a backlash should it grant the same sum for a project “which an unsympathetic and inaccurate critic might describe as a single instrument for one man.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Using magic was like playing a gusli: anyone could pick up the instrument and strum the strings, but only a talented or trained bard could make real music with it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z This list is by no means exhaustive, but it does provide a wide range of commonly used instruments from Western and world cultures. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There was also a case of canvas with a tough wooden frame, lined with kapok, containing various instruments; and there was a pistol in a holster. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But often transposing instruments are a result of the history of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z No instrument, just his high clear voice that rose and flowed like the pipes he had played before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Everyone is in the music room, putting together instruments, getting ready for the holiday concert. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Both began as practical technologies and became scientific instruments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How queer the instruments looked in the gallery, the little stands for the music, the big drum. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “All right, pal,” Finny spoke in his cordial, penetrating voice, that reverberant instrument in his chest, “don’t start awarding prizes until you’ve passed the course. The tree is waiting.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Even I can play those, and piano is my third instrument. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I showed Lelia how this was done, sometimes brutally, my face a peerless mask, the bluntest instrument. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Since their school didn’t offer band or lessons on musical instruments, Ms. Treadwell let Clayton accompany the class on his blues harp a few times—something he’d never told his mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z With furious concentration he sent for books, instruments, chemicals, all manner of tools and equipment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He cradled the instrument in one arm and, almost before his fingers touched the strings, a gentle melody, as beautiful as the curve of the harp itself, lifted like a voice singing without words. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Instruments all over the world can be grouped into five categories based on the Sachs-Hornbostel instrument classification system. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We feel a bit warmer, enough to take out our instruments and join in. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The invertebrate eye was invented into an optical instrument at the MBL, opening the way to modern visual physiology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here there were a couple of stools, a cauldron, a bench with all sorts of small knives and surgical instruments, and some shelves with pots on them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to try and catch Shadows, and without the instruments in her laboratory she had to improvise with the materials at hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He placed a box of instruments on a stand where Tendai could see them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I could imagine, for example, a key instrument failure in Chryse just after an unfortunate crash landing in Cydonia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is one reason that the unlocking of the cosmological mysteries requires us to use exotic instruments and frequencies different from the visible light to which our eyes are sensitive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now, with her head bopping and her limbs flailing, she almost looks like one of those one-man bands, but without instruments. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He had been playing an instrument ever since the fourth grade, when his mother enrolled him in music class. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Nowadays the humans had instruments for measuring anything, so if there was any time-stopping to be done, it had better be fine-tuned and precise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A collection of imposing metal instruments lay on a nearby tray. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The layers of instruments started to pile up. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The note name is the name of the fundamental harmonic of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I was starting to catch on to this Grand Rapids talk, I remembered that a ax was a instrument. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Her imagination was an instrument of wonder, and she fashioned, of the stuff of her ghostliness, an ever-shifting expression of her marvelous self. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “The violin was his instrument of choice. Here is where he died in poverty.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Tune I did; and found that, indeed, the instrument was none of the most euphonious. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Figure 3.10: Standing Waves in a wind instrument are usually shown as displacement waves, with nodes at closed ends where the air cannot move back-and-forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When it touched the moon, it caused a light on the instrument panel to light, so that Neil would know he was just about to touch down. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By his official induction into the underground railroad, he had been its instrument for some time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I cover her nose with bei powder and dip one of my metal instruments into the pot of steaming water. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And, much as she hated herself for these torturous and unconfessable pleasures, she hated her mother more for being their instrument. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Children are able to discern the timbre of a sound from a very young age, including the vocal timbres of peers, relatives, and teachers, as well as the timbres of different instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Finally I pressed a poultice of certain herbs over the whole wound, using a trowel-like instrument to plaster it on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet in this brief flash of six decades, the gene had transformed from an abstract concept in a botanical experiment to a powerful instrument of social control. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I saw again the instruments of torture before me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z What new notes are added in the instrument's middle range? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Um, well,’ Leo said, ‘this is quite simply the most amazing instrument ever!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On the instrument sheet, I write one word: bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Lisa was assigned the flute, and I returned home from a Scout meeting one evening to find my instrument leaning against the aquarium in my bedroom. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I’d made my way close enough to where DJ Ren is still standing up behind his mountain of instruments, spinning a fast-tempo beat, the gold wings of his headphones reflecting the neon strobe lights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A man truly believed that the whip was an instrument of virtue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With Duke Valentino as his instrument and the French invasion as his opportunity, he achieved all those things that I discussed earlier in describing the actions of the Duke. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z On a side table under a naphtha lamp lay a battered wooden box, certainly the right size to contain the instrument she knew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After about twenty seconds, Welles signals for him to silence the instruments. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And in the basement is a sink and instruments for embalming and for injecting. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Low-pitched instruments such as drums impact the body with vibration and rhythm that influence body rhythms and movement, whereas higher-pitched frequencies such as flute and voice demand more attention and focus. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t enjoy it, and for the first time I found myself thinking about the words of the song, closely listening to the subtle instruments in the beat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He grabbed his instrument and lightly placed it beside me and knelt down on his rug to pull a shoebox out from under the bed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Match instruments to students’ functional independence and enjoyment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But croaking seemed to work great with the grating, mismatched sounds that came from the instruments behind me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He pronounced a hasty benediction: “Heavenly Father please make me a powerful instrument of Thy perfect will here in the Belgian Congo. Amen.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The metal farm instruments hanging on the walls quaked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The new instruments and the oceans of printed books opened up new experiences and destroyed old authorities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z "A lens is an instrument to help us see." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Adaon, sitting comfortably with his back against a tree, put the instrument to his shoulder. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” he said, and went to see about his instrument. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z There were instruments and bandages on the tray. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z What with the sound of the cracking and snapping and her swift-fingered movements, she seemed to be playing a complicated instrument. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Why was it that he wanted the boy to serve as his instrument? The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Their instruments include an accordion, a bass guitar, a tuba, and bongo drums. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And he bought a Victor victrola, a tall Gothic instrument, and he went regularly to see what new records had come in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There were three or four glass-fronted cabinets containing antique scientific instruments—brass microscopes, telescopes covered in green leather, sextants, compasses; it was clear why he wanted the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I’m doing but I start thumping that old spruce dresser of an instrument for all it’s worth, thumping and thumping, until I feel my life begin. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If T has an instrument, have students guess which scale is being played. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “With your other hand, don’t grab the instrument. Use your first two fingers to make a mouth with your thumb around the slide.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z If she ever wants to play an instrument, I would vote for cymbals. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z To Adam who was an instrument, who saw not the future farms but only the torn bellies of fine humans, it was revolting and useless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No instrument currently imaginable will give scientists the power to observe strings directly; nobody can think of an experiment that will give physicists evidence about whether black holes and particles are, indeed, strings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z These waves fit together so well, in the instrument, and in the air, and in your ears, that they sound almost like different versions of the same note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “That a scythe is merely the instrument of death, but it is your hand that swings me. You and your parents, and everyone else in this world are the wielders of scythes.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z ‘Yes, I believe you can. You go walk about in the fresh air, while I get my instruments ready.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m okay for a bit,” Alec said, standing back to scan the instruments and screens of the control panel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Leo had a sudden instinct to hide the instrument and keep it for himself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I had my room arranged just so, and the instrument did not fit in with my nautical theme. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Using their paws as though they are surgical instruments, the cats extract from the grilles every feathery particle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The standing waves in a wind instrument are a little different from a vibrating string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There’s something I didn’t expect in the room—instruments on all the seats around the circle—and people run for the ones they want. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The third plucked at strings stretched across a long-necked instrument made of wood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That elicited oohs and ahhs from the twins, who put their heads together to examine and admire the instrument. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “I liked that black instrument with the silver keys and the pointy top. That one played a note, and everybody else followed. What was it?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It is one of the undisputed masterpieces of all music for the violin, comprising an astonishing sixty-four continuous variations on a single theme, creating the impression of an orchestra of sound from one single instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Radar and I followed him, talking as we went past the band room, where freshmen and sophomores were sitting and chatting amid a slew of instrument cases. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A constant and steady supply of broken planes coaxed back to repair sites, new ones delivered from factory to operational base—all flown by civilian pilots, no instruments, no radio, no guns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z New instruments meant new perceptions, and with them came new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I’ll ask Mr. Fabian to let you come early to class tomorrow. And no more switching instruments after this, okay, Amelia?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She colored strips of parachute silk to use as scarves, and she carried a picture of roses on her Yak’s instrument panel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When Captain Prince laughed he rattled the instruments on the shelves! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did Galileo take it seriously as a scientific instrument? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Idiophones are instruments in which the body of the instrument itself, or a part of it, produces the original vibration. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For instruments that can tune almost instantly, like voices, violins, and trombones, this is not a problem; but it is unworkable for pianos, harps, and other other instruments that cannot make small tuning adjustments quickly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That meant the rocket was on our nose, instead of behind us as usual, and its thrust would push us forward against the instrument panel instead of back into our seats. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” she said finally, putting the instrument down in her lap and blinking and sighing as she woke out of her profound concentration. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Since the Fischers didn’t own a piano, Nigro began giving Bobby accordion lessons, lending him a somewhat battered “twelve-bass” instrument so he could practice at home. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Each note that comes out of the instrument is actually a smooth mixture of many different pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His muted instruments flashed nothing but sun, until a gaggle of noisy kids showed up and he got back to minding his own business. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “A very quick-witted agent of ours was able to deal with the murderer and capture the instrument. It’s in that box under the lamp.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The owner of an Indianapolis repair shop testified that Holmes had come into his shop on October 3, 1894, with two cases of surgical instruments and asked to have them sharpened. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Also, to save money, a synthesizer would be used to accompany the recordings rather than authentic instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Researchers also learned that the primary source of wound infection was not air, but contact with hands, instruments, and even drops from a surgeon's mouth and nose. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Learn any alternate fingerings and other "tricks" available on your instrument for fine-tuning each note as you play. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In 1602 Tycho Brahe published his Instruments for the Restoration of Astronomy, which provided elaborate illustrations of the new instruments he had devised for conducting astronomical observations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The real Iron Maiden was a medieval torture instrument, a sort of boiler which was shaped like a woman on the outside—and lined with spikes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It took seventy years for that answer to establish itself, but once the telescope had been invented and turned into a scientific instrument it was the only answer with any chance of survival. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Lyra, can you see that instrument to read it?” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The old man Daedalus was hunched over a worktable, wrestling with some kind of navigational instrument, like a huge compass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She had fallen behind; it was beginning to look as if she’d hit an obstacle, or had fallen out of sympathy with the instrument. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z This violin was built by the famous Amati famib of Cremona, Italy, whos mid-sixteenth-century violins are the world’s oldest surviving example of the instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Dashing tears from her eyes, she pulled the carved cylindrical lid over the desk, hiding her writing instruments. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Although these exercises were developed for children with special needs, they are highly applicable in developing crucial musical listening skills and for helping children recognize categories of music, instruments, and timbre of sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Here are a few instruments typically found in classrooms, or that can be purchased inexpensively at a music store or online. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His musical efflorescence was tragically brief, but this is the man who turned the chord-strumming, jobbing electric guitar into a high-wire, virtuoso lead instrument, from also-ran to star turn. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He kept his ingenious instrument in a slim leather case and carried it in his pocket wherever he went. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a surprisingly compelling speaking voice for so small a man, an instrument that he wielded like a rapier when he addressed large crowds in person or spoke on the radio. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Music was played on some inner ear, and Spender imagined the shape of such instruments to evoke such music. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They worked twenty-hour days, setting up instruments to measure the blast, and building a 100-foot steel tower to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was white—the walls and sheets and nurses’ uniforms—or silver—the beds and trays and medical instruments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He slapped his fingers against his waist, playing an imaginary instrument. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z They sang at their work and in the evenings sat together making music, singing and playing instruments. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z IT beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She raised Laila’s burqa and placed the wide end of the instrument on her belly, the narrow end to her own ear. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Distracter, however, for all its strengths, is a fairly crude instrument. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The blind man was sitting with his instrument on his lap. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They apologized about it later, claiming that the image of pint-size me with such a hulking instrument between my spindly legs had made them crack up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I threw up two more times before Karim agreed to stop, mostly so I wouldn’t stink up his vehicle, the instrument of his livelihood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Doctors hoped it was within reach of the entry wound and could be easily pulled out with their instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As an army of workers cleared the stage, unhooking power cords, removing instruments and equipment, Armpit and Ginny were unsure of what they were supposed to do or where they were supposed to go. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Then she sat scanning the collection of gauges and instruments. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z To salvage what she could of her standing as a teacher, Aunt Anne used to tell the audience before we went on stage that we had only recently shifted from the piano to stringed instruments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the instrument of torture was put once more upon the table and a box of matches was produced. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The instruments didn’t blend so much as collide, like rocks caught in a lawn mower. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Finch doorbell was a mystical instrument; it was possible to tell the state of mind of whoever pushed it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z So why do different instruments have different timbres? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Lawrence was unaware how tactless this sounded to Fosdick, who had been brooding over the foundation’s investment in what had turned out to be an instrument of unparalleled death and destruction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Any rhyme can be made more complex by adding a body percussion pattern or simple instrument pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “They’ve also got these weird old instruments called hands. They work better.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully, as he did most evenings, he tuned the instrument. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “We had to fix instruments on the aircraft with our bare hands, our skin stuck to the metal, and our hands bled,” Irina said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Astronomical instruments designed by Tycho Brahe serve as decorations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Servants wheel in tiered trays bursting with skin-color pastilles and rouge pots, brushes and combs and barrel irons, tonics and creams, bei-powder bundles, waxes and perfumes, measuring rods and metal instruments, and sharpened kohl pencils. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The hoosh pot was cleaned and scoured, filled with ice to melt, and once the water was boiling, the surgical instruments were sterilized. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He listened, then turned a small screw on the back of the instrument’s wooden neck, then listened again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I cannot imagine why in a place with so many sharp instruments for cutting bones and thick tissues, that woman brought me such teeny nail scissors. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they had another problem: the extreme cold froze the communication instruments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the distance came a mournful sound of brass instruments, a death dirge echoing over the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He viewed them as instruments for the uneducated, and purveyors of sinister influences and vulgar ideas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The high point in indigenous Chinese astronomy occurred around 1280, with the work of Kuo Shou-ching, who used an observational baseline of 1,500 years and improved both astronomical instruments and mathematical techniques for computation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The instruments began again and the color returned. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re super determined. You convinced me, someone who couldn’t even play an instrument, to join the band. I’m pretty sure you can do anything.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Timbre is caused by the fact that each note from a musical instrument is a complex wave containing more than one frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I sat on the chair, and he looked at the eye through the instrument attached to the metal rod. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Here is a short list of the most common transposing instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I’d always believed that the cello was a solitary instrument, but now I was starting to wonder if maybe I was the solitary one. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Parker says, and hands me a long instrument case. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z If they dropped an instrument on the floor, they picked it up and inserted it into a patient's body without cleaning it again. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, I am so sick of the young men of the present day!” exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Evil-looking masks stared down from the walls, an assortment of human bones lay upon the counter, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z My mother not being an islander and the islanders not being acquainted with pianos, no one realized at the beginning the effect of damp salt air on the instrument. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He suspected that bacteria entered wounds through a surgeon's dirty hands and instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The blind man was rubbing the polished wooden side of his instrument with a soft cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He kept repeating the only three notes he could get out of his instrument. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z An instrument is like a companion and a lover. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What if pretending to like an instrument is as bad as pretending to like someone? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z We had picked this direction because it allowed our navigational instruments, which were in the belly of Columbia, to point at the stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In ancient music-making, pitch was fixed - defined - only by the length of your string or pipe, hence the need for a label like ‘A’ to denote the same sound made on different-shaped instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He said that the instruments, tubing, and solutions used to wash out Garfield's wound each day were disinfected as Lister recommended. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One near Bailey has a flute at his lips, the instrument silent in his fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He leaped from the car while it was still skidding dangerously and hurtled up the flight of steps inside, where three men were busy at the instruments and the controls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Since we have no instruments to tell us the time, and we’re no good at guessing it from the sun’s position in the sky, the wait feels like forever. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Heat—dry or from hot water—sterilized surgical instruments much better. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Because Tycho was such a superb observer and had built such accurate instruments, this was the most sensitive search for parallax yet undertaken. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There were only a few basic instruments, like a big toy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Put down your surgical instruments, Dr. Loofah. Nobody's getting their back bugged today. Not on our watch." Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There was drama here, I can tell them—thousands upon thousands of us crossing the Rappahannock with banners flying, drums rolling, and our instruments of death gleaming in the sunlight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Bent ox er their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent- minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is someone going to come along,” Weaver asked, “and say that now a new instrument obviously must be built... to produce mesotrons?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It is the placement of the nodes that determines which wavelengths "fit" into a musical instrument "container." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I knew it to be Joe’s file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Musical activities such as singing, singing/vocalization, instrument play, movement/dance, musical improvisation, songwriting/composition, and listening to music, are types of musical therapy interventions to assess and help individuals practice identified skills. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Burns was the first American to see the immense possibilities of the instrument in detective work,” the Literary Digest reported in 1912. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He rose from his chair and put his stringed instrument on the shelf where he kept it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z New instruments are plain as pikestaffs; new intellectual tools are not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It could have been straight out of Fred’s Miles Davis album, where the musicians made sounds that had never been made by instruments before. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z If it is possible, have a reed player and a brass player demonstrate to you the sounds that their mouthpieces make without the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He looked along the length of the shining black instrument, sighting on the house two backyards away, and especially on the pale, timid, excited face at the third-floor window. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z While the nurse was expertly tying a strip of gauze around her arm and the doctor was putting his instrument in the sterilizer and taking out a fresh needle, Francie spoke up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is clear then that Galileo had turned his telescope into an instrument that was good for only one purpose—looking at the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The tooth was a hard one to get out, and the Doctor let Stuart sit on his instrument tray so they could talk during the operation. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z He invented an orchestra for the occasion, a combination of instruments never before gathered under one roof. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We saw that tents were purchased, and there w'as talk of provender, and transportation cases for the astronomical instruments. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Chairs and musical instruments crashed to the floor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Musical activities, including singing or playing instruments, can increase the self-esteem level of the child. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Some kind of optical instrument formed part of the end of this metal arm. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I watched the kid from the lunch line sit down at a table with other kids who had instrument cases. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She had brought the alethiometer with her, and now that it was light enough to see, she took the beloved instrument out and laid it on its black velvet cloth in her lap. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I am so glad to be on the other side of the instrument closet door. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z There was a lot of talking, and then usually some instruments came out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most teachers use some type of visual cues and supports such as charts, books, musical instruments, and music notation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z You can imagine them all thinking furiously, trying to square their assumption of where the plane is with what their instruments are telling them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Pay him if you want to keep your instrument," says the guard. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He slipped away through fields and forests, his precious old instrument under his arm, to seek out refuge in the hall of some lesser marauder. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They were works in progress, malleable, and could be set on the right path if the law behaved like a stem but loving parent rather than as an instrument of punishment. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The others would echo his words or make their voices sound like drums or musical instruments backing up his sermon—although the Vapostori used no actual instruments in their ceremonies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the second bell rang, the students with musical instruments went to band class and the rest of us were on our way to chorus. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There was the part she was supposed to be doing, the part that justified her time with the instrument, which was an investigation into the hourglass range of meanings. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He dances into the room, clicking two handfuls of spoons and forks together like they’re instruments. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But this was not quite the brilliant solution it might have seemed, since F# and Q> were still - to stringed instruments, singers and some brass players - separate notes, albeit just a short distance apart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That instrument panel: no one ever could know what all of those dials meant! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More instruments, certainly, than he really needed and all positioned so that Julia could not help but see them and be sickened by their hard, eager gleam. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cal sensed this, and it gave him the instrument to knock down her anthill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z So if you are composing or arranging, it's a very good idea to be able to distinguish between these two ranges for the voices or instruments you include. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “We are going to be handling large amounts of blood. And we will be handling sharp instruments. We are going to use the disposable biocontainment suits.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They got the latest philosophical instruments. Course they know what’s going on in the atmosphere.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It has changed and evolved as composers experimented with new sounds, ideas, and even new or evolving instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For example, on any string instrument, nobody can play lower than the note that the lowest string is tuned to. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And in jewels so fine that it is impossible to imagine with what instruments they were cut so perfectly?... 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Which was weird because when he played his musical instrument, he was real calm and silent. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But for keyboard instruments, on which the pitches of each step are firmly fixed, these nineteen subdivisions were a nightmare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The constant probing with unsterilized fingers and instruments introduced bacteria that the president's body was unable to fight. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Thankfully, the Memory shifts to Ren heading to his instruments in the center of the stage. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Well- dressed people milled around, nearly a third carrying some sort of musical instrument or another. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z See if you can develop other ways of classifying these instruments in addition to the ways listed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We could hear the sounds of trumpets and saxophones and other instruments echoing through the hallways, and the choir doing warm-ups in a large room next to our dressing room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The horizon was still visible, with the dark shape of the hut and its light snow-covered roof standing out, but the complexity of the instruments was hidden in darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She pulls down a banged-up case and puts the instrument together. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z In a bed of black velvet lay a golden instrument like a large watch or a compass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The doctor put the instrument over the eye again. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you begged for them? Can I refuse you anything? Oh! you cannot deceive me,” and Made-moiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A brass instrument could play only the notes of one harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Instruments that can bend most pitches enough to fine-tune them during a performance — and this includes most orchestral instruments — also tend to play the "pure" intervals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The answer is that it is partly a matter of where astronomers point their instruments and partly a matter of what their instruments are designed to detect, and partly it’s just Pluto. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Her scream bent instrument dials like palms in a hurricane. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Lawrence had invented a superb instrument for smashing atoms, but while he was preoccupied with making the tool better, the quintessential small-science lab had stolen the prize from under his nose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When the music started, it sounded like tiny bells and jumping string instruments. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “First we checked all the instruments and radio equipment,” recalled Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Examples of different ways children can categorize instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To assist in this work, he had a huge version of the instrument called a quadrant made for him. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The proboscis of the death’s-head hawk moth is used as a kind of reed instrument, blown through to make high-pitched, reedy notes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I scrabble for something to hold on to as the door swings open, and I tumble out, a mountain of instrument cases cascading all around me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z A little plume of smoke was creeping out from the instrument panel! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on the front porch every day after school, working at it again at night when his schoolwork was finished, he patiently and painstakingly taught himself to play each instrument proficiently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The fence clangs and twangs like a weird musical instrument, and the nose of the truck begins to dip forward, revealing a gorge like a roller-coaster drop. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Education had been the primary instrument of change in my own life, my lever upward in the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And for three years, whenever he said “gwagala,” his family knew that he wanted to hear those pretty sounds made with voices and instruments. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of its scientific instruments are on a scan platform, which tracks Jupiter or one of its moons as the spacecraft hurtles past. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t simply an instrument for beating you. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a violinist who played a gilded instrument with finesse, but whose face seemed strangely weary for someone who was making such sweet music. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The gamelan orchestras of southeast Asia, for example, have an aesthetic preference for the "lively and full" sounds that come from instruments playing near, not on, the same pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She usually had more luck with her sharp lance, but claimed that out of hunger her arms were weakening and her aim with the razor-keen instrument was off. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Maybe then I’d pick up a new instrument, guitar or bass, or even drums. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some rabbits say he controls the weather, because the wind, the damp and the dew are friends and instruments to rabbits against their enemies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did you decide on which instrument to play? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Some instruments that are identified this way are transposing instruments, but others are not. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The band was still there, busy with their instruments. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Then other instruments, notably sax, trombone and trumpet, perform similarly athletic interludes atop the structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Noises of trumpets and horns, pipes and flutes, and other musical instruments. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From a medical bag, they removed a few primitive instruments, including a saw. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then Ms. Parker signals with her hands for us to get louder, and all the fifth graders on all the instruments play forte so loudly, my ears hurt. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z To write it for a C instrument, transpose it back down one whole step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Their feet sounded as though they were playing a wet wind instrument as they slipped in and out of the puddles between the shacks in the shantytown. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z How sometimes I didn’t understand why I’d been drawn to it, how some days it seemed as if the instrument had chosen me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The only thing I really know about New York is what’s playing on Broadway, y’know? Did you read they’re doing a revival of Into the Woods where all the actors play their own instruments?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z As if they were gods, and didn’t just predict the weather with their instruments and satellites, but also told it what to do. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He’d never been around kids who actually played instruments—except for Beat Box, even though technically, Beat Box didn’t play a musical instrument. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There are no instruments that can detect a virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been in the weapons den nearly every day for lessons, but to be there alone, nothing but her and instruments of death, was entirely different. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The columns on the tablet are made up of cuneiform script detailing various instruments, including the kinnor, the hand-held harp-like instrument that is alternatively known as a lyre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His surgical kits stood open and gleaming, his instruments laid out in a sunflower of polished steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After they were dressed, Claudia whispered to Jamie, “Let’s stash our book bags and instrument cases before we man our stations.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z How amazing to be able to play an instrument, Jule thought. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I am almost as trapped as I was in the instrument closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The instrument closet door is open, and I can see all the cases on the shelves. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “But honestly, I was thinking more about your harp. You lost your lyre in that fire. I know what it’s like to be without an instrument.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Closer to the table, she saw that the man was using the instrument to write something on each woman’s arm. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He picks up the instrument and opens it to find an exquisite system of cogs and wheels turning inside, resulting in a mechanical device that is capable of telling time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally, he straightened, swung the instrument back, and gave me a tired smile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Rhythm Section — The rhythm section of a band is the group of instruments that usually provide the background rhythm and chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Most don't even have an instrument, but the director has several salvaged pieces. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Uniformed men take my grandparents' phones and even their keys, and we walk through something that Tanvi Ma'am says is an instrument made to detect metal. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And then the village, where the natives receive her as an emissary of the Lord, an instrument of civilization. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was a battery-powered drill, a canvas cot, a bucket of sea water for rinsing, a metal suitcase full of the various instruments. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’d never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “For example,” he said, continuing what he’d been saying, “I’m very curious about this instrument. Suppose you tell me how it works.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After students explore and group instruments, they can develop their own instrumentation for a piece, then vary it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Carefully, as if approaching a sleeping person, Celaena walked to the large instrument. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He displayed such skill and care with the instruments that he soon became a permanent telescope operator and observing aide. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the ranges of many instruments are, like vocal ranges, not so definite. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Distraught at the possibility that he might lose the race, Galileo frantically set about building one of his own, knowing nothing more than that the instrument involved two lenses in a tube. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Then play the leitmotif on an instrument that helps describe that character. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They rebuilt instruments, checked circuits, wiggled wires, dusted plugs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She would have gotten too nervous over all of us using her purified instrument. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The instrument is alive in my hands; it trembles like a child who is too frightened to name her terror as she proceeds deeper into forest darkness, carrying a lantern of warm oil. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Playing a steady beat on the xylophone or other percussion instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z When a good choir sings in harmony without instruments, they will tune without even thinking about it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Mabel had said that she never discovered to what purpose he used those instruments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The aeronaut checked his instruments from time to time, chewed on the cigar he would never light with the inflammable hydrogen so close, and huddled deeper into his own furs. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I try to read but remember instead how nice it was when Madge didn’t laugh at me when Noah made me jump with his trumpet blast, or when I fell out of the instrument closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z So the physics of music is the physics of the kinds of sounds these instruments can make. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z After a successful vocalization or body percussion, the next step is to assign instruments to the different lines. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It was deeper than the Bodleian instrument, but the golden case was equally worn with handling, and glowed in the lamplight with as much intensity and fire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z All the other little girls were singing and clapping their hands, but Maybeth was staring at the nun’s hands as they played on the instrument. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Find other adaptive musical instruments with an Internet search. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In principle I heartily agreed with this, for I knew that it was impossible for working people to forge instruments of political power until they had achieved unity of action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The general sound that one would expect of a type of instrument — a trombone for example is usually called its timbre or color. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Lawrence drove Edward Teller out to Livermore during the first week of February, hoping that Teller would become the instrument of his hopes to create a permanent foothold for Livermore in the thermonuclear program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Not one of them on instruments yet and flying without a map. We shouldn’t have let them take off this morning.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It is the brass instruments that excel in getting different notes from the same length of tubing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The cross-staff is merely one of a series of instruments, such as the quadrant and the sextant, designed for measuring angles by taking sightings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She had said, “God’s speaking. You’re merely the instrument he chooses at this time. God is a wonderful speaker, so you have absolutely nothing to be nervous about.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally she and Mr. Dolan left the room, and Ms. Fender told us to hurry to our lockers to get our instruments. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Curious, some of the older boys gathered around him as he started twisting pegs and plucking at strings to tune the instrument. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z These were not independent sciences but a family group which held a set of geometrical techniques and measuring instruments in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was carrying a brief case and a navigation instrument I knew to be a sextant. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “For the hundredth time, I don’t know how to play any instruments.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “In the old days, Ariadne’s string guided Theseus out of the maze. It was a navigation instrument of some kind, invented by Daedalus. AndChris Rodriguez was mumbling about string.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Bass is the perfect instrument for me; you can barely hear it if you don’t know what you’re listening for, but the song wouldn’t be the same or even half as good without it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Even with modern instruments, pilots of commercial aircraft today need to be able to see the runway before they can land, even if they’ve been flying in cloud nearly to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The instrument was taken out of the house again and carried to Mr. Brown's, where the young concert artist really did receive very sincere applause and the most enthusiastic congratulations. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For example, according to a 2008 study, girls are more likely to sing, while boys are more likely to play instruments such as bass guitar, trombone, and percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If she could articulate it, she might have said to Nana that she was tired of being an instrument, of being lied to, laid claim to, used. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Write the harmonic series for the instrument above when both the first and second valves are open. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What might I be able to add to a lesson to increase its effectiveness for the learner—e.g., movement? rhythm? instruments? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But that day, I didn’t even blink an eye; the other instruments dropped out and the next thing I knew, they came back in. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Children can explore the timbre, production, and material of the instruments to come up with their own ways of categorizing them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He had washed all his glassware and instruments carefully. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ask them to help move risers or put instruments away so you can reinforce good behavior. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Your inspiration for a music or integrated lesson plan can be a song, an instrument, timbre, vocal sound, poem, story, rhythm, speech pattern, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I can never repent it, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made men the instrument of his punishment.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I’m not sure where all the instrument sounds came from at the bar, but still. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “So, for the moment, the Bologna instrument counts as the spoils of war,” Al-Kaisy went on after a pause. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The sound of a brass instruments starts with vibrations of the player's lips. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “If you choose one of the three instruments, I have rental forms here to take home to your parents. We’ll begin next week.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z In bebop, whole tracks were devoted to helter-skeltering instruments, sometimes solo, sometimes in coordinated groups, tumbling across notes at high speed, wilfully oblivious of the harmonies to which they once belonged. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His black bag of instruments and medicines was packed and on the table. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My father switched to trumpet, because he could play any instrument. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of August, while Galileo was still in Venice, he heard that a Dutchman had arrived in Padua with one of the new instruments. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The stone towers thrilled under them, trembling bodily like the bass strings of musical instruments. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he escaped the immediate reach of the Grievers’ instruments, they gave up and retreated, disappearing into the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We all hurried up and put our instruments in the lock room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z When the sighting rod was set up, Rondon’s loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant João Salustiano Lyra, used a telemeter, an instrument that measured the distance from his canoe to the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He picked up the instrument case he’d set on the floor and moved on down the line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Figure 1.11: Middle C is above the bass clef and below the treble clef; so together these two clefs cover much of the range of most voices and instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The curtain opens on five girls with instruments, and the first thing I notice is the colors. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Inside that small space were framed gold records and instruments hanging from the walls and the ceiling. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Here are a few questions that might help in thinking about the instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I never learned to play a musical instrument, but I loved to listen to classical music. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Some other terms that are used to describe instrument ranges are: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Our father offered to find us better teachers, adding that if we were unhappy with our instruments, we could trade them in for something more suitable. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The players scrambled for their instruments and struck up a wavering tune while Hamlet dashed among the crowd, trying in his manic way to restore their festive spirits. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Free sheet music is available for the different instruments, as well as music from different popular movies. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Fast/Slow Tempo and Loud/Soft Dynamics Game: Similar to above, play instruments in different tempos and dynamics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There was no instruction for string instruments at Truman anymore, and therefore no orchestra. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Children often come up with very imaginative ways to group instruments based on characteristics other than sound production. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z My cold hands grip my instrument between my legs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Instruments with ranges that do not fall comfortably into either bass or treble clef may use a C clef or may be transposing instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They found a military cache that left them openmouthed, for they had never seen such perfect instruments of death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z An instrument with a slightly higher fundamental will have a slightly higher range; an instrument with a much lower fundamental will have a much lower range. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There were also classrooms on the fifth floor, as well as a psychology laboratory, which contained rats, mazes, screens, and a variety of instruments for the measuring of auditory and visual responses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z There drummers who sounded the advance and retreat across the battlefields thumped upon the skins of their raucous instruments, judging the quality of the attack. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But by then I didn’t need any call slips; the Internet had bloomed into an instrument of research. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mouzaive had invented an instrument he called a cryptochromometer that used a protein extracted from birds’ eyes to detect the presence of magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight fist that socked at her heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And then she’s joined by the other instruments—Morgan on the keyboard and Anna on the bass. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z She learned how to control the light and the camera to get the effects she wanted, like a musician learning the intricacies of an instrument. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I looked about the room and saw on the table the instruments that had been used for my operation. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Every so often she took it out, throwing the strap over her shoulders to keep the huge, many-keyed, wheezing instrument off the ground. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It included brass and wind instruments, percussion, and a whole gallimau&y of types of strings: plucked, stroked, strummed, keyed and bowed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We unloaded all of the instruments and waited for nighttime to come. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z We grab our instruments, thinking it's time to play for a late transport or a midnight work detail. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Galileo rushed back to Padua, only to find that he had missed the stranger, who was now in Venice intending to sell the instrument to the Doge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Parents often learn the instrument along with the child, acting as musical role models, and maintaining a positive learning atmosphere for the child to succeed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But that did not change the fact that she had been the instrument of Adam’s hurt and shame. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There are instruments and human players but sometimes a fiddle or a drum makes instruments of those who play them, and all are put in servitude to the song. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “There’s a way of...There’s an instrument….Well, I found out by myself. No one else knows. What can you tell me about the acorn?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His dæmon, a finch, fluttered and shrieked and tried to pull away, only to fall half-fainting on the instrument panel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow observed, with a wry amusement, that the bows of the stringed instruments, played by mechanical arms, never actually touched the strings, which were often loose or missing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up—sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His first three models were large, clumsy, heavy instruments, but his final masterpiece was not much larger than a heavy pocket watch. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The ranges of some instruments are definite and absolute. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But in some, the shape of the instrument — usually a tube, block, circle, or bell shape — allows the instrument to ring with a standing-wave vibration when you strike it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Mine is just the French practice instrument Papa himself learned to play on as a child. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His chosen instrument was the Tesla coil, a high-voltage transformer invented by the visionary physicist Nikola Tesla in the 1890s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They contained instruments, small, but of perfect make and enchanting tones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A symphony, for example, is usually a piece of music written for a fairly large number of instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His short stubby fingers were touching the instrument with what looked to Coram like the tenderness of a lover, as if he thought it was alive. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He stands up and plays, sometimes he has that absent expression which violinists get when they close their eyes, or again he sways the instrument to the rhythm and smiles across to me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When she finally became convinced of the hopelessness of teaching us the piano, she shifted us to other instruments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z No one thought it strange that a boy and a girl, each carrying a book bag and an instrument case and who would normally be in school, were visiting a museum. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There are tables and chairs on the left side of the room, and a group of people with musical instruments on the right side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Since the part is written for a B flat instrument, it is written one whole step higher than it actually sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “They are the devil’s instrument to draw impressionable young minds to perdition.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We had crashed into it with our Banger unmanned spacecraft and even soft-landed a Surveyor spacecraft loaded with instruments. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had turned it into a scientific instrument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I heard all the words and instruments, complete with stereo highs and bass lows to “My Girl,” fluting out of his long but happy face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Of course,” the Savage went on to admit, “there are some very nice things. All that music in the air, for instance . . .” “Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I found that the philosophers there, centuries ago, had created a tool for their own undoing: an instrument they called the subtle knife. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a few seconds, but he finally noticed that “they,” the kids with the instruments, were girls. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The standing waves in these carefully-shaped-and-sized idiophones — for example, the blocks on a xylophone — produce pitched tones, but again, the patterns of standing waves in these instruments are a little too complicated for this discussion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They all thought it was a shame the Beiderman reacted so strongly to stringed instruments, especially given Isa’s extraordinary progress over the last six years. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She knew about it, but she could not see it as we can, until she made an instrument to look through. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But for many instruments, such as piano, organ, harp, bells, harpsichord, xylophone — any instrument that cannot be fine-tuned quickly — tuning is a big issue. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was a three-quarters-size instrument that had been in his family for generations. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Once it was dark, we remained by the instruments and saw the stars in their vaster orbits above us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z There are now many book/CD combinations available to help the beginning improviser in many different genres and on many different instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The man looked like someone you’d see on the street downtown, except instead of bills and coins in the instrument case, people had dropped little vials of colored powders and liquids. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the board tables, the instruments shining in the light, the basins and the stoppered bottles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He took the cotton off the eye and looked through the instrument. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Ron passed the bag to Griphook, and the goblin pulled out a number of small metal instruments that when shaken made a loud, ringing noise like miniature hammers on anvils. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Small ensembles playing 'Baroque’ instruments at lower pitch had become the norm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z However, because of the instrument's history, older orchestral parts may be in any conceivable transposition, even changing transpositions in the middle of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Seeing abstract images and performing them either on voice or instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Milton played his instrument with the same fingers he used for the Boy Scout salute, but his thoughts were anything but wholesome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Musically, the shape of the instrument is important since the shape is directly related to sound and sound production. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Most woodwinds can get two different octaves with essentially the same fingering; the lower octave is the fundamental of the column of air inside the instrument at that fingering. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This isn’t a matter of simply needing more precise instruments; it is an immutable property of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The melody instruments in a dixieland band are also generally playing independent parts, giving this genre its "busy" sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The Griever had grabbed him with two instruments, had started dragging him backward. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “I have heard him lamenting her having no instrument repeatedly; oftener than I should suppose such a circumstance would, in the common course of things, occur to him.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Sitting on one of the little spindle-legged tables that supported so many frail-looking silver instruments, was an ugly gold ring set with a large, cracked, black stone. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In Peking, in the 1670s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Jesuit astronomer, was able to build instruments based on his designs without ever having seen Brahe’s originals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like the case, the instrument was a part of her. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z After 1608 a new range of instruments made the invisible visible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some girls take out their instruments and gather on the lawn to play together. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z You’d have a real hard time trying to figure out which instrument was your favorite. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Not the entire time. I watched the dancers some of the time, but I always listened for that instrument with the pointy top...the oboe,” Mia explained. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z With the other, he had taken from the table a sharp instrument like a knife. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Word had arrived that in Venice someone called Galileo, using some sort of new instrument, had discovered four planets circling a distant star. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The whole point is that there was no common score, no assigned instruments, no blended harmonies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared to the music of his teacher Haydn or to Mozart, it seems much more dramatic and pianistic, almost to the point of theatricality, than anything they had written for the same instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When a place is biologically hot, no sensors, no alarms, no instruments can tell the story. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This issue of tuning came to a head with the growing dominance of keyboard instruments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Around the same time in Sweden - in approximately 1000 bc - it would seem that people were playing brass instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ernest Lawrence’s renown as an experimentalist and the father of the most productive instrument for researching the atom had spread coast to coast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He never came home with the prize money and his instruments, and no one in the family had seen him since. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But it hadn’t finished yet, and she looked back, frowning, until the instrument fell still. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Horace peeled down the back of the head, too, then lay his scalpel in the sink, rinsed his gloves, dried them, and brought out a hacksaw from his instrument cupboard. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Schumann was, however, one of a group of composers who between them made the piano the essential nineteenth-century instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Like all the instruments on the panel, it relayed a specific message. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Young students were accordingly expected to learn an instrument and perform music daily, alongside gymnastics. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But our response to crime remains a blunt and expensive instrument that more often seems to scar the criminal than reform him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For each instrument, what "color" words would you use to describe the timbre of each instrument? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What an instrument is made of has a direct effect on its timbre. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Although we had no better success, the other instruments at least were quieter than the piano and, more important, only one person could play them at a time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Drones can be most easily found in bagpipes music, Indian Classical3l music and other musics that use instruments that traditionally play drone notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One example might be to think of as many ways as possible to play a musical instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Three prisoners brought a table and some medical instruments. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an archaic instrument with no room for subtlety. Not to disparage your choice of instrument,” I said quickly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some of the men played a “Discord Fantasia” on homemade instruments, setting the dogs outside howling. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He pushed the scope into the hole, peering into the instrument. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A great vat was overturned, and our little band of music stood upon it as upon a stage, our instruments accompanied by the unison tread of the company assembled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Figure 4.42: These harmonic series are for a brass instrument that has a 11C11 fundamental when no valves are being used — for example, a C trumpet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He caught a quick glance of two pilot chairs, windows above wide panels full of instruments and dials and screens flashing information. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But the charged particles can damage the delicate instruments and fry the electronics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What if you had only a few instruments? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The problem was that composers were outgrowing not just the old modes and the restrictions placed on them but also the complicated system of tuning that allowed instruments to play in different keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z From these plucked instruments, rested on the lap and nestled against the body, with as few as six and as many as thirty-five strings, would grow innumerable further offshoots. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Hamilton intended to make the New Army his personal instrument of power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They push down a key and way at the other end of the instrument something moves. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor now put some water to boil in an aluminium mug over a gas flame, and into the boiling water he placed a long thin shiny steel instrument. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When the guard at that entrance told them to check their instrument cases, Claudia told him that they were just passing through on their way to meet their mother. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid it has to stay in the library. We’ve only got the one instrument. But here’s a picture you can have.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But they all are also affected by the history of their music traditions, as well as by the tuning peculiarities of the instruments used in those traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z No instruments, no senses can tell you if you are in the presence of the predator. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This fine instrument must have belonged to a mathematician who, unless on a journey, would have used it primarily to tell the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From outside, the baby hears language and music, mostly low sound waves from bass instruments and loud noises. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Then he would open one of the books, search laboriously through the index, and look up a reference before writing that down too and turning back to the instrument. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They hear the movement of pitches, the content of rhythms, the movement of meter, and explore the timbre of whatever instrument or voice with which they have access. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z For she had always thought of this letter as an instrument in her hands which could be used to complete her brother’s destruction. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But after only a few moments, she stopped and turned the instrument around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When people forget their instruments, Mr. Wren usually makes them sit quietly off to the side and watch the orchestra rehearse. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “And you’re learning an instrument at the same time? Are you insane?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z By honoring both the invention of an essential instrument for large-scale research and the creation of a laboratory model to put it to use, the Nobel committee validated a sea change in science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Cardinal Bellarmine himself looked through Galileo’s telescope and appointed what we would now call a scientific subcommittee of learned priests to examine Galileo’s claims for the instrument. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z All of the instruments blended up together and, just like that smell in the library, you couldn’t tell which one was your favorite. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know very much about music—I’m the only one in the family who can’t sing or play an instrument—but even I knew that what I was listening to was sheer magnificence. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z "And tomorrow?" the innkeeper asks the children, as the troubadours collect their instruments. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Horace made scientific instruments and was for a short time mayor of Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But on the top shelf was that bulky instrument with the brass rings: he’d made a point of noticing that. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his alto sax idol, Johnny Hodges, with Duke Ellington’s band, but he said he thought too many young musicians were only carbon-copying the big-band names on the same instrument. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am going to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know what follows.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z In his hand he held that long shiny steel instrument. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Surviving organs and other instruments from Bach’s time indicate that the average pitch was lower then than it is today, so his music is mostly performed at A = 415 Hz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The music master was unable to keep his hands on the instrument and thus was unable to detect mistakes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Other instruments may be a mix of absolute and indefinite ranges. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Boys Thomas didn’t know ran alongside him, whacking at Griever instruments with their makeshift weapons, jumping on them, attacking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For hours and hours he sang these folk songs he had picked up over there; really significant songs that proved my theory that music should basically be an instrument of social protest and expression. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Galen had claimed that the hand of a healthy doctor was the perfect instrument for judging hot and cold, wet and dry—the four qualities that made up the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I just said I don’t play an instrument.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z And he orates random thoughts of profundity with such authority that you want to write them down and hang them on the wall, but they only allow writing instruments in the rec room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Now Father brought the slender instrument home with him each night, in case Gabriel misbehaved. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Of the Cro-Magnons’ products that have been preserved, the best known are their artworks: their magnificent cave paintings, statues, and musical instruments, which we still appreciate as art today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the club downstairs, the band was tuning their instruments. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I push a metal instrument along his belly. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When Milton got to the end of the song, he lowered his instrument and leaned out the window, grinning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Although the song does have quite a few words, the refrain is repetitive with only three words, and provides two empty beats for clapping or playing an instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They used a few basic instruments, some almanacs, and math. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Ah,” Isabel begins, as if sounding a note on her instrument. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z My beauty caisse is set up behind me, fanned open so the medley of instruments inside twinkle in the subtle light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He took the hat he held in his hand and placed it beside an instrument tray. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Benny’s black instrument case sat on the floor between us. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z There’s a fat coil of copper wire, a tiny instrument hammer, and a two- terminal battery as big as a shoe—finer equipment than Werner has had access to in his life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Milton set his instrument case down on the sofa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What Corelli did was create a musical version of chiaroscuro by contrasting a big-sounding band of stringed instruments with a small group, switching between the big and the small throughout the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That would be quite a nice boodle to put in their knapsacks if they were using knapsacks instead of instrument cases. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently a voice blent with the rich tones of the instrument; it was a lady who sang, and very sweet her notes were. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Making and remaking the common culture that bound together clergymen, mathematicians, instrument makers and aristocrats such as James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, and George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, required constant effort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At each slide "position," the instrument gets a new harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Metal clinked as though someone were riffling through a box of instruments. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He starts singing and he’s just got a terrible voice, like an albino Jamaican frog, but we chime in as best we can with our voices and whatever instruments we ended up with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He straightened up and started to put his instruments back into the bag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the beginning, Shirley only listened politely, hunting for the tune, because all too often each instrument sang its own song and confused her. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z To this end she recruited Italian dancers, choreographers and a band of violinists, playing on the very instruments she had ordered for her son from Cremona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At first he used electronic techniques to make incremental transformations to a pattern, later having live players and acoustic instruments imitate this effect under his very specific and detailed configuration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Three ways I own you. That makes you wholly mine. An instrument of my desire. You will do as I say.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They are the instruments of his going and not coming back. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z What is considered beautiful about a type of sound, instrument or voice? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “She didn’t sterilize the instruments. And a patient came and I had nothing to use. She humiliated me.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sex-role associations of music instruments and occupations by gender and major. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In a more recent paper he had even suggested an instrument that might do the job: the Bell antenna at Holmdel. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s just...there’s so much underground here, so many layers, it’s overwhelming. Like standing in the middle of an orchestra and trying to concentrate on a single instrument. I’m going deaf.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z NOTE: Outside of the instrument's practical range, it may be a strain for even a very good player to play long or tricky passages. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “It’s pretty easy. You open the synthesizer and record a melody. Then you add background chords and harmonies. And then you mix in other instruments.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He traces the scrolled top of the instrument with his finger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Finally, assign a narrator, speaking or acting parts, and along with your instruments and sound effects, you have a complete performance that incorporates music composition and creativity along with language arts and theater. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z That night they removed all their dirty clothes from their instrument cases and stuffed those that would fit into various pockets. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands kept floating up in front of me, and I wished I had pockets or somewhere to put them to keep them out of the way of all the switches on the instrument panel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have a very nice selection of percussion instruments.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Each valve opens an extra length of tube, making the instrument a little longer, and making available a whole new harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then he played a slow, mournful melody on it, concentrating hard, biting his lip, leaning over the instrument and moving his shoulders with the rhythm. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He threw his directional instruments and his maps into a knapsack, and he undertook the reckless adventure. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Composers and music arrangers can jot down a piece of music without having to "pick it out" on an instrument to find the notes and chords they want. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Armpit, huh? I used to know a dude who called himself Burnt Toast. He played the slide trombone. You play an instrument, Armpit?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Some sources even list the power range of an instrument or voice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Leo didn’t usually think of the ukulele as a sad instrument. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z NOTE: Although percussion specializes in "noise"-type sounds, even instruments like snare drums follow the basic physics rule of "bigger instrument makes longer wavelengths and lower sounds." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He had some idea that I had studied instrument building and was in fact able to do all sorts of complex, technical work, though I had never told him any such thing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had practiced desperately until he got so that he could play all the instruments at once. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He plays the instrument of language as Casals plays a cello. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a device known as a ‘compass’—a graduated metal instrument that could be used as a calculator. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z One did not know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your nervous reactions, gradual wearing-down by sleeplessness and solitude and persistent questioning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But, when you put the mouthpiece on an instrument shaped like a tube, only some of the sounds the mouthpiece makes are the right length for the tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Well, gentlemen,” he said, “I’m greatly obliged to you. A splendid dinner, some of the finest wine I’ve ever tasted in my life, and a look at that remarkable instrument.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “What if you don’t want to learn an instrument?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Pages of tables and designs for instruments were probably often torn out for ready reference, leaving mutilated copies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She twists together metal pieces with holes for noise to come out, assembling three instruments. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He had a deep melodious voice like a finely tuned instrument. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Our choices as to which instrument to play, in other words, are not entirely our own. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He wished he could play on it, and wondered if he could make such an instrument. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In jazz, the shift in emphasis meant bigger bands comprising more structured families of instruments playing well-honed, written-out arrangements, with occasional well-defined solos emerging from the texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It is this kind of sound that we most often associate with music, and that many musical instruments are designed to make. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In short, scientists say that nothing we do as humans uses more parts of our brain and is more complex than playing an instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As always, the best way to perform such notes depends on the instrument and the style of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What particular movements, gestures, and instruments do we use? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Although these instruments are quite similar, the viola has a noticeably "deeper" and the violin a noticeably "brighter" sound that is not simply a matter of the violin playing higher notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When the boys left, they took their instruments with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of scissors for a tailor, a gold lamb for a wool weaver, a basin for a barber, a painted wooden book for a bookbinder, a large swinging compass for an instrument- maker. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To African drums, the Cubans gradually added an array of percussion instruments that were native to the region, such as the claves and the maracas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It looked like some awful torture table, with these metal stirrups sticking up in mid-air at one end and all sorts of instruments and wires and tubes I couldn't make out properly at the other. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He was a most unlikely instrument of abolition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was sitting in his chair, sharpening his mean instruments and putting extra sting into his medicines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All medical instruments and wound dressings would be sterile. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They are tones caused by standing waves produced in or on the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then there’s just the hum of the instruments, the purr of the ventilation system. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The only thing they could see was the faint light of the instruments in the cockpits. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They brought chests with what they could save of the instruments of their trade. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The voice is primary, and singing songs and speaking and creating poems should be mastered before playing an instrument, which is seen as an activity that extends the body. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The challenge here is that some instruments, such as the tambourine, contain more than one type of material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Later that night they passed a harp—not the old Shaper’s instrument, no one touched that—and the queen’s brother sang. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told you, I do not have my instruments with me. My demon spirit called me and compelled me to fly to him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z For example, a loud orchestral piece, even if it has 60 beats per minute, will not aid the body into a calm state as well as a softer, more soothing piece with a few instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the percussion instruments layer on another set of patterns, African style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A large yellow dog was curled up next to his legs, and next to it was an open instrument case. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She stopped at an empty table, laid down her bag, slung the instrument strap over her chair, and sat down. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z This last instrument was a common sight in Tudor barber-surgeons’ shops, hanging on the wall for customers or resident entertainers to while away the time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Some percussion or wind instruments fit the bill as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes— in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right, but no more switching instruments after this.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z If the instruments and drainage tubes were not properly disinfected, they would carry dangerous bacteria deep into the body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking of trying a new instrument. Like drums. Dad’s kit is down in the basement gathering dust.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "You! With the instrument! Get back over to the musicians. There's nothing to look at here." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It did indeed turn into the trusty guitar in due course, but not before it had cross-fertilised with another medieval instrument, the citole, whose chief successor in England was unhelpfully called the cittern. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then as her is she’d maybe let me borrow one of her instruments to play. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “Oh! then—some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to——You shall try it some day. Do your sisters play and sing?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z For him, silence was a precise instrument for gauging respect. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked over and saw a group of kids coming through the door with instruments. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a black leather chair over against one of the walls and instrument cabinets everywhere. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The noises and sights come as if we’re in rehearsal again, everyone tuning their instruments and no one in sync. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I walked over to a table to retrieve the necessary instruments. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The transposition you will use for one of these instruments will depend on what type of part you have in hand, and what instrument you would like to play that part. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The six familiar, friendly faces of the flight instrument panel smiled at her behind the control column. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A rider who lost touch with the saddle became a projectile moving at sixty feet per second, and whatever he hit became a potentially lethal instrument. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a leather pad called “the beat” that you’d strap to your palm, like a percussion instrument. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Simpson said that a plane had spotted two guys with what looked like surveying instruments. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The musicians are hastily packing up their instruments. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On the platform with him was the little keyboard instrument with which he would relay questions to Billy from the crowd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The solution to these problems, once brass valves were perfected, was to add a few valves to the instrument; three is usually enough. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Some have their instruments in beat-up cases like mine. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I leaned back on Vega’s bed and listened to him play his instrument. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The simplest thing to do is to find recordings of quality music and play songs with an even, steady beat and have children move, clap, tap, patsch, hit an instrument, or walk to that beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We stepped closer to the edge and looked down to see an old man with a white beard opening an oddly-shaped instrument case. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the early 1800s in the southwestern and western states, there was a prohibition against playing musical instruments and dancing by certain religious organizations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We successfully negotiate the treacherous radiation belts of Jupiter with only one instrument, the photopolarimeter, damaged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom took me to this cool instrument museum yesterday. Have you ever been there?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The King’s leitmotif, for example, might be 4 quarter notes played on a trumpet sound on a keyboard, or using an interval of a 5th on any instrument to sound regal and stately. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The descriptions have to be vague, because articulation, besides depending on the instrument, also depends on the style of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I’m on the roof in the glaring sunshine, cleaning the Doctorita’s dental instruments with soapy water in the cement washbasin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The door opens and the others arrive, including Madge, all talking, and putting together their instruments. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The French horn—like the trombone—is a “male” instrument. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When he touched the white and black keys on the piano, music wafted out of the instrument, and Mia’s face lit with joy. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He frowned and struggled with the pegs of his imaginary instrument watching her out of the corner of his eye with that secret joke playing over his face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z That all the artificial instruments were ever-so-slightly out of tune added to the otherworldliness of the place. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They examined her through monocles and magnifying glasses, with metal instruments that embossed her chest and forearms, thighs and forehead with a blue geometry. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They stand to the side of the crowd and start to play their instruments. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z NOTE: In some woodwinds, such as the clarinet , the upper "octave" may actually be the third harmonic rather than the second, which complicates the fingering patterns of these instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He looked down at the eye, went to the cabinet, came back, and looked at the eye again through an instrument with a light attached to it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Cautiously she began to climb, peering forward, ignoring the instruments and flying by sight and by instinct. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Playing two or more parts on instruments is far easier and children can begin this type of multi-part performance much earlier. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Donders built instruments to try to measure what he called “the time required for simple mental processes.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Some instruments are both physical and intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Being near an acoustic instrument or speakers offers the greatest benefit from the sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She had the golden instrument out in a moment and moved into the moonlight so she could see the dial clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In Jim’s grand plan, PIH would become an instrument for expanding the resources to treat TB, and in the process save itself. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At least our middle names came from people and not instruments. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I threw a switch on my instrument panel, and our two spacecraft were separated. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you get the sword, then payment. Now let me get to work measuring. Inigo—my instruments.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A few secondhand mint-condition musical instruments like trumpets, trombones, congas, and tambourines were on display inside a glass case, their price tags sticking out like a tag on a dead man’s toe. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But he planned to learn, even though his school didn’t offer music lessons for kids who wanted to play instruments. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z How he managed to reach his weather instruments and take readings is not known, nor are his words when he finally tumbled back in, though “Jeeeeeeeesus!” would seem an apt possibility. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Can you think of some other percussion instruments that get particular pitches? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The result is a scale that plays all the notes easily available on most instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Bills piled up rapidly, and he was soon faced with the loss of his most precious medical instruments: his adding machine was repossessed, and then his typewriter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Classroom instruments are much more than noisemakers to accompany songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “What instrument do you play on the show?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had found the missing link in Harvey’s description of blood circulation, a link which Harvey himself had guessed must be there, but could not detect with the instruments at his disposal. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z "Seriously, though, it helps if you give your instrument a name. What do you think you'll call yours?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z John brought to their partnership the initiative to expand nuclear research into biology and physiology, and Ernest contributed the instrument that could make that happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The tiered compartments fan open, exposing a medley of beauty instruments tucked into nooks and crannies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The word style is derived from stilus, the writing instrument of the ancient Romans. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was welcoming the crowds with folksy numbers he played on the instruments—washboard, harmonica, drums, cymbals—lashed to various parts of his body. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z How might you approach or use these instruments when creating a lesson plan? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Fred the Shark was making a pattern, slightly irregular, like a kid learning to play an instrument. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z My eyes wandered again to the beautiful instrument on the platform by the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This made well temperaments particularly welcome for players of difficult-to-tune instruments like the harpsichord and piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I run my fingers across the golden carvings before lifting the lid to reveal a medley of instruments tucked inside endless drawers and compartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Gertrude’s ladies took pride in their needlework, but to me the thin, sharp steel was an instrument of torture. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This system groups the instruments by the way in which sound is produced. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He came over to me without a word and looked at my eye with the instrument. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z On the night of 19 February 1604, in Prague, Johannes Kepler was out measuring the position of Mars in the sky with a metal instrument called a quadrant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No sluggers greeted me; none poked at me or prodded my body with their strange alien instruments. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The conductor then departed; the musicians left their instruments and also left. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z A new group of specialists came pounding up to his bedside with their instruments to find out if it was true. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When he realized that his observatory shook slightly in the wind, making his measurements imperfect, he moved his instruments into underground bunkers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I have a virus, and besides that, I don’t want to play a musical instrument. Don’t you know anything?” Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Nobody liked to think what might happen if Worsley lost any of his instruments or tables. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The reason I thought of myself as lying on my back was that the main instrument panel was in front of me, and I had long accustomed myself to think of that direction as “up. ” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Push that little button!” said the Doctor, pointing to a button on the instrument panel. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The Fellerings had brought a case of instruments, and they set to work at once. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As he spoke, he was dipping into his bag and producing the instruments for transfusion; I had taken off my coat and rolled up my shirt-sleeve. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A number of curious silver instruments stood on spindle- legged tables, whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The instruments gleam in the bright light like marvelous animals. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She bent over the instrument, concentrating furiously as the needle darted this way and that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes several instruments played one note, so the staff would have to be very large. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility, and, at the request of the gentlemen, remained at the instrument till her ladyship’s carriage was ready to take them all home. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z |
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