the section of the orchestra formed by members of the violin family but excluding harp, guitar, harpsichord, piano, viols ……
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a three section form in which the first section A is repeated, often with some changes, after a middle section B, thus the fo…
Gottuvadhyam
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instrument played in Southern India with six playing strings which pass over the top of the instrument, three drone strings a…
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an ensemble of players of musical instruments arranged in sections the strings, the woodwind and brass and the percussion, pl…
Tiple
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a box across which lie strings of various thicknesses, stretched and tuned in unison, which when placed in a window and the s…
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thirteenth , fourteenth and fifteenth century formes fixes, a strophic piece, each stanza having an initial repeated section…