Términos

In Greek and Roman mythology, goddesses regarded as presiding over and inspiring learning and the arts, especially poetry and music. Often, but not always, numbering nine.

Pequeñas gaitas francesas, especialmente aquellas de diseño aristocrático que lograron popularidad entre la nobleza francesa en el siglo XVII y principios del siglo XVIII.

Gaitas inventadas a principios del siglo XVII, y referida con frecuencia como musettes italianos. Las lengüetas complejas eran fuelle soplados y tenía cuatro cantores separados, dos de los cuales eran parte con clavija, y dos que eran completamente con clavija, que permite al usuario producir música de cuatro partes.

Catalogs listing items in a collection or highlights of a collection in a museum.

Institutions that maintain places where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artifacts are housed and displayed for public benefit. An institution devoted to the procurement, care, documentation, study and display of objects of lasting interest or value.

Museums devoted to the art, history, and technology of motion pictures, television, and video.

Describe obras creadas por africanos de mismo nombre que viven en el sur de Chad, en la región de Gounougaya, en valle del río Chari.

Plantas pequeñas sin flores, de hoja tallo, de la clase Musci, sereproduce por esporas y por lo general se encuentran en mechones o césped en un terreno húmedo, troncos de árboles o rocas.

Tipo de musgo encontrado comúnmente en el sur de Estados Unidos; se caracteriza por mechones grises en los troncos y ramas de árboles.

Úsese para describir obras producidas por el grupo étnico afriano de mismo nombre que habita el norte de Camerún y Chad.

Sombrero femenino de copa pequeña en forma de cúpula y con ala vuelta hacia abajo. Durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX estos sombreros fueron confeccionados en paja; luego, desde la década del 30 en adelante, se hicieron de fieltro.

Any of various fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi consisting of a stalk and a cap. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names.

The discipline of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, expressive content, etc.; musical composition, performance, analysis, etc., as a subject of study; the occupation or profession of musicians.

Benches intended for use in front of musical instruments.

Spool-shaped cylinders that rotate within music boxes. The cylinders have protruding pins in locations that correspond to the locations of notes on the “combs” of steel prongs, thus plucking the notes on the combs, which also correspond to specific, timed pieces of music played while the cylinders rotate.

Flat metal discs, shaped like phonograph records, which have pins partially punched out of them and bent at right angles. They are used in disc-playing music boxes which became popular from the late 19th century, when cylinder-playing music boxes became obsolete.

People who make music boxes, which are mechanical musical instruments that incorporate tuned steel prongs and moving parts driven by a clockwork mechanism.

Buildings used for the academic study of, instruction of, or performance of music.