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Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men, oil on canvas by Gerard Terborch, 1667-1668. (Baroque Art)

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Is 27 an Especially Deadly Age for Musicians?

baby girl with toy bunny rabbit.

Has Pink Always Been a “Girly” Color?

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Are Black and White Colors?

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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo. General Porfirio Diaz leads Mexican cavalry to victory against the French lead by General Charles Lorencez at Puebla, Mexico April 2, 1867. Oil on canvas, 1902. May 5, 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.

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The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.

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colour musical composition parody serialism musique concrète instrumentation musical notation oratorio mass hymn motet ornamentation

Key People

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

American composer

Aleksandr Scriabin.

Aleksandr Scriabin

Russian composer

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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz