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... instruments made by the traditional instrument - making craft , for example , strings , air columns , reeds , plates , and mem- branes , but ultimately nearly all sounds of traditional music group around combinations of a dozen ...
... instruments made by the traditional instrument - making craft , for example , strings , air columns , reeds , plates , and mem- branes , but ultimately nearly all sounds of traditional music group around combinations of a dozen ...
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... instruments with fixed sounds ( piano , harp , harpsi- chord , organ ) . In the orchestra , where the instruments are only statistically dependent on each other , the average deviations decrease as the interval of integration ...
... instruments with fixed sounds ( piano , harp , harpsi- chord , organ ) . In the orchestra , where the instruments are only statistically dependent on each other , the average deviations decrease as the interval of integration ...
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... instrument or to a group of matched instruments . When orchestral practice en- trusts the melody to instruments with complex timbres or when it has a counterpoint or a polyphonic structure accompanying the mel- ody , it takes care to ...
... instrument or to a group of matched instruments . When orchestral practice en- trusts the melody to instruments with complex timbres or when it has a counterpoint or a polyphonic structure accompanying the mel- ody , it takes care to ...
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