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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Concerto grosso. big concert. A Baroque form of concerto, with a group of solo instruments. Da capo aria. from the head aria. A three-section musical form. Dramma giocoso. jocular drama. A form of opera.

  3. Calliope (music) - Wikipedia

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    A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a North American musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles —originally locomotive whistles. A calliope is typically very loud. Even some small calliopes are audible for miles.

  4. 1883 eruption of Krakatoa - Wikipedia

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    The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa ( Indonesian: Letusan Krakatau 1883) in the Sunda Strait occurred from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late morning hours of 27 August when over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed into a caldera . The eruption was one of the deadliest and most ...

  5. Blue's Big City Adventure - Wikipedia

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    Blue's Big City Adventure (previously titled Blue's Broadway Dreams) is a 2022 live-action/animated musical comedy film.It is the second installment of the Blue's Clues film series, and a standalone sequel to Blue's Big Musical Movie, based on the revival Nick Jr. Channel television series, Blue's Clues & You!.

  6. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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    Chalkboard scraping. Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its ...

  7. How do cicadas make their signature sound, so eerie and ... - AOL

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    June 14, 2024 at 9:32 AM. WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a ...

  8. List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on disc formats like ...

  9. The Sun is really loud — but if we could hear it ... - AOL

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    The Sun is said to be extremely noisy, but we can’t hear it since sound doesn’t travel through space. Scientists at the University of Sheffield decided to use vibrations within our star's ...