Musical box - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A musical box (UK usage; music box in US English) is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pl...
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To Switzerland however, we owe the music box. No one knows for certain who invented the first music box movement, but for the most part, it is believed that Louis Favre, a watchmaker from Geneva, was responsible for making the first unit in the eighteenth century.
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www.lambertcastle.org/musicbox.html
www.lambertcastle.org/musicbox.html
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Myth has it that the first music box was designed for the amusement and entertainment of Marie Antoinette. History, on the other hand, reveals the availability of musical clocks constructed in the 16th century for royalty and the wealthy.
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www.worldofmusicboxes.com/history/index.html
www.worldofmusicboxes.com/history/index.html
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The first simple musical movements are found in watches made in Switzerland in the 16th century, and the invention of the first true music box in 1796 is credited to Anton Favre, a Swiss watchmaker, who invented the “music comb”.
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www.bsrgroup.org/music_box_repair.htm
www.bsrgroup.org/music_box_repair.htm
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The Web Magazine from the American Music Center ... Inside the Box: The computer comes out to play ... Some software, such as Ableton Live, is useable right out of the box; others, such as Max/MSP, provide musicians with a language to learn, but one with which they might craft their own software tools.
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www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4659
www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4659
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The Web Magazine from the American Music Center ... Cage used to say that all music was tonal since it was made of tones, but he wasn't defining it as the "arrangement of all the tones and chords of a composition in relation to a tonic."
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www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=53hf02
www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=53hf02
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The “Music Box Dancer” was a hugely successful non-vocal hit song that took the musical world by storm in the late 1970s and, consisted mainly of a piano theme accompanied by other instruments. ... Finding an Anastasia Music Box...
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www.ownways.com/music_box/Music_Box_Dancer_A_Huge_Non-V...
www.ownways.com/music_box/Music_Box_Dancer_A_Huge_Non-Vocal_Hit_Song.html
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The Web Magazine from the American Music Center ... Further, the chromatic uncertainty, by some strange process of invented logic, "infects" the bass (the flight of meaning); it begins to wobble between C-flat and B-flat:
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newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=5426
newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=5426
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First Appeared at The Music Box, ... Like Harry Smith's Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music, this is music from a completely invented place, outside of time. It sounds like it fell out of some opening between the past and the future; as dependable as the former, but as unpredictable and lively as the latter.
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www.musicbox-online.com/gans-int.html
www.musicbox-online.com/gans-int.html
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