Compatibility testing
Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).
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Amazing grace (file info)
- from the Library of Congress' John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip; performed by Mr. and Mrs. N.V. Braley on 5 May 1939 at the home of Beal D. Taylor near Medina, Texas
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Amazing grace (file info)
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Amazing grace (file info)
- Performed on an Organ
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Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).
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Amazing grace (file info)
- from the Library of Congress' John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip; performed by Mr. and Mrs. N.V. Braley on 5 May 1939 at the home of Beal D. Taylor near Medina, Texas
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Amazing grace (file info)
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Amazing grace (file info)
- Performed on an Organ
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Lyrics
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"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (file info)
- Performed by Leadbelly, a folk singer and guitarist; this Southern Appalachian song dates to the 1870s
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[[Media:{{{filename}}}|"Cross Road Blues"]] ([[:Image:{{{filename}}}|file info]])
- Performed in 1937 by Robert Johnson, a Delta blues guitarist
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"Po’ Gal" (file info)
- East Coast blues, performed by Zora Neale Hurston in 1939
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[[Media:|"Caldonia"]] ([[:Image:|file info]])
- Jump blues performed by Louis Jordan in 1945
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"Back Door Man" (file info)
- Chicago blues performed by Howlin' Wolf in 1960
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[[Media:|"Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)"]] ([[:Image:|file info]])
- Blues rock performed by Janis Joplin in 1969
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Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often with the singer voicing his or her "personal woes in a world of harsh reality: a lost love, the cruelty of police officers, oppression at the hands of white folk, hard times".[1] Many of the oldest blues records contain gritty, realistic lyrics, in contrast to much of the music being recorded at the time. One of the more extreme examples, "Down in the Alley" by Memphis Minnie, is about a prostitute having sex with men in an alley. Music such as this was called "gut-bucket" blues. The term refers to a type of homemade bass instrument made from a metal bucket used to clean pig intestines for chitterlings, a soul food dish associated with slavery and deprivation. "Gut-bucket" described blues that was "low-down" and earthy, that dealt with often rocky or steamy man-woman relationships, hard luck and hard times. Gut-bucket blues and the rowdy juke-joint venues where it often was played, earned blues music an unsavory reputation. Upstanding church-going people shunned it, and some preachers railed against it as sinful. And because it often treated the hardships and injustices of life, the blues gained an association in some quarters with misery and oppression. But the blues was about more than hard times; it could be humorous and raunchy as well:
- Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
- Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,
- It may be sending you baby, but it's worrying the hell out of me.
Audio examples
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Playing Range (A1 B-flat1 E5 A-flat5) (file info)
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Tone across octaves (B-flat1 B-flat2 B-flat3 B-flat4) (file info)
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Chromatic scale (B-flat1 to B-flat4) (file info)
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Articulations (staccato, legato, legato+vibrato, slurred) (file info)
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Dynamics (file info)
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Trills (B4 to C5 B3 to C4 B2 to C3) (file info)
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Embouchure bending (file info)
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Bassoon reed alone (file info)
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Flutter tonguing (file info)
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1st movement (file info)
- Bassoon performance from Beethoven's 4th Symphony
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Scheherezade (file info)
- Bassoon solo composed by Rimsky-Korsakov
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Tu Pauperum Refugium (file info)
- Four bassoon ensemble performing from Josquin Des Prez's Magnus es tu, Domine
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Technical examples
A collection of samples demonstrating the bassoon's range, abilities, and tone.
Solo music
Ensemble music
Media
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A Blue Whale, recorded in the Atlantic (1) (file info)
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A Blue Whale, recorded in the Atlantic (2) (file info)
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A Blue Whale, recorded in the Atlantic (3) (file info)
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A Blue Whale, recorded in the Northeast Pacific (file info)
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A Blue Whale, recorded in the Western pacific (file info)
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A Blue Whale, recorded in the South pacific (file info)
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Media
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Cor Mio Mentre Vi Miro (file info)
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Cruda Amarilli (file info)
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Non Si Levav'ancor (file info)
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Christmas carol media
- Deck the Halls (file info)
- Oh Holy Night (file info)
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Angels We Have Heard On High (file info)
- Angels We Have Heard On High, performed by Clarinet and French Horn
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Media
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Moonlight Sonata (file info)
- Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, 1st movement
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Pathetique Sonata (file info)
- Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, 1st & 2nd movements
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Opus 111, movement 1 (file info)
- Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, 1st movement
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Opus 111, movement 2 (file info)
- Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, 2nd movement
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Piano Sonata 3, movement 1 (file info)
- From Piano Sonata no. 3
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Laendler in C Minor (file info)
- Hess 68
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Symphony 5, movement 1 (file info)
- From Symphony no. 5
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Symphony 5, movement 2 (file info)
- From Symphony no. 5
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Symphony 5, movement 3 (file info)
- From Symphony no. 5
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Symphony 5, movement 4 (file info)
- From Symphony no. 5
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Ode to Joy (file info)
- Excerpt, Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 4th movement
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Opus 62 (file info)
- Overture - Coriolan
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Piano Concerto 4, movement 1 (file info)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, 1st movement
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Piano Concerto 4, movement 2 and 3 (file info)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, 2nd and 3rd movement
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Komm' o Hoffnung (file info)
- The Komm' o Hoffnung aria from Fidelio, performed by Alice Guszalewicz
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[[Media:|Opus 30, movement 1]] ([[:Image:|file info]])
- Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, 1st movement
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[[Media:|Opus 30, movement 2]] ([[:Image:|file info]])
- Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, 2nd movement
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[[Media:|Opus 30, movement 3]] ([[:Image:|file info]])
- Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, 3rd movement
- Opus 47, movement 1 (file info)
- Opus 47, movement 2 (file info)
- Opus 47, movement 3 (file info)
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Fugue in B Flat Minor, arranged for String Quintet (file info)
- From Well-Tempered Clavier (Book One) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Hess 38
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Piano solo
Orchestral
Chamber
Media
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Handel's Messiah, And the Glory of the Lord (file info)
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Handel's Messiah, For unto us a child is born (file info)
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Handel's Messiah, Hallelujah (file info)
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Gigue - HWV 433 (file info)
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