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Insects In Music
Insect names have appeared in music from Rimsky-Korsakov's " Flight of the Bumblebee" to such popular songs as " Blue-tailed Fly" and the folk song ''La Cucaracha'' which is about a cockroach. Insect groups mentioned include bees, ants, flies and the various singing insects such as cicadas, crickets, and beetles, while other songs refer to ''bugs'' in general. Overview Insects including bees, cicadas, crickets and grasshoppers produce sounds, whether by flying or by stridulation, attracting human interest.Morris, 2006. Insect sounds have accordingly been the inspiration for a variety of forms of music. Among Western composers, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov imitates the quick buzzing vibrato of the bumblebee in his famous " Flight of the Bumblebee"; Edvard Grieg was inspired by flies in his ''Said the Gadfly to the Fly''. Popular songs with an insect theme include "Glow-Worm", "Poor Butterfly", "La Cucaracha", "The Boll Weevil", and "The Blue-Tailed Fly". Operas like Puccini's ''Madam ...
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The Crickets
The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in January 1957. Their first hit record, "That'll Be the Day", released in May 1957, peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Top 100 chart on September 16, 1957. The sleeve of their first album, ''The "Chirping" Crickets'', shows the band line-up at the time: Holly on lead vocals and lead guitar, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe B. Mauldin on bass. The Crickets helped set the template for subsequent rock bands, such as the Beatles, with their guitar-bass-drums line-up, performing their own self-written material. After Holly's death in 1959 the band continued to tour and record into the 1960s and beyond with other band members through to the 21st century. History Formation Holly had been making demo (music), demo recordings with local musician friends since 1954. Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, and Larry Welborn particip ...
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The Tale Of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov)
''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' ( rus, Сказка о царе Салтане, Skazka o Tsare Saltane ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue (a total of seven scenes) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The opera was composed in 1899–1900 to coincide with Pushkin's centenary, and was first performed in 1900 in Moscow, Russia. The lengthy full title of both the opera and the poem is ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan'' (russian: Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной царевне Лебеди ''Skazka o tsare Saltane, o syne yego slavnom i moguchem bogatyre knyaze Gvidone Saltanoviche i o prekrasnoy tsarevne Lebedi''). Composition ...
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Interlude
Interlude may refer to: *a short play or, in general, any representation between parts of a larger stage production *''Entr'acte'', a piece of music performed between acts of a theatrical production *a section in a movement of a musical piece, see: Bridge or Break *a piece of music composed of one or more movements, to be inserted between sections of another composition: see also intermezzo, and for the Baroque era, sinfonia Music Albums * ''Interlude'' (Billy Taylor album), 1961 * ''Interlude'' (Toshiko Akiyoshi album), 1987 * ''Interlude'' (Kool Moe Dee album), 1994 * ''Interlude'' (EP), a 1999 EP by Iron Savior * ''Interlude'' (Saint Etienne album), 2001 * ''Interlude'' (David Lyttle album), 2012 * ''Interlude'' (Delain album), 2013 * ''Interlude'' (Jamie Cullum album), 2014 Songs *"Interlude" (aka "A Night in Tunisia"), a 1942 composition by Dizzy Gillespie * "Interlude" (1957 song), a Skinner/Webster song recorded by the McGuire Sisters in 1957 *a song by Cardiacs on the alb ...
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Flight Of The Bumblebee On Pipe Organ Pedals
Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight). This can be achieved by generating aerodynamic lift associated with gliding or propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement. Many things can fly, from animal aviators such as birds, bats and insects, to natural gliders/parachuters such as patagial animals, anemochorous seeds and ballistospores, to human inventions like aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, airships, balloons, etc.) and rockets which may propel spacecraft and spaceplanes. The engineering aspects of flight are the purview of aerospace engineering which is subdivided into aeronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through the atmosphere, and astronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through space, and ballistics, the study of the flight of project ...
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