Among his publications are new editions of early sources of music for vihuela and lute, studies on interpretation, music analysis, tablature printing in the renaissance, and the role of plucked instruments in Renaissance society.
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Like any plucked instrument, mandolin notes decay to silence rather than sound out continuously as with a bowed note on a violin, and mandolin notes decay faster than larger stringed instruments like the guitar.
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On a guitar, mandolin, ukulele, or similar plucked instrument, the fingerboard appears flat and wide, but may be slightly curved to form a cylindrical or conical surface of relatively large radius compared to the fingerboard width.
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This collection, regarded as the world s largest private collection of baroque music for plucked instruments, is particularly rich in works by French composers, such as E . and D . Gaultier, St . Luc, Ch.
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The Music Archive alone contains more than 5, 000 printed editions and manuscripts of 17th-, 18th-and 19th-century scores, also performing parts, libretti, sheet music, and baroque tablatures ( a form of musical notation ) for plucked instruments.
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It initiated festivals such as Complexity ? ( 1990 ), Rules & Games ( 1995 ), Improvisations ( 1996 ), the multi-cultural Festival of Plucked Instruments ( 1998 ) and The Refined Ear on microtonality ( 2003 ).
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Among them were the erhu and gaohu, both small, bowed instruments; the dizi, a flute; several varieties of the zheng, a large plucked instrument that resembles the Japanese koto; the pipa, a lute; and the yangqin, a zitherlike instrument played with delicate hammers.
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Instruments with holes cut into the sides include the Ducal Palace Studiolo cittern and the citole labeled " Plate 4 : Toro Collegiate : West Door, ca 1240 " on Christian Rault's web page : " The emergence of new approaches to plucked instruments, 13th-15th centuries ".
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He has conducted many different orchestras, including the Chinese Bow String Youth Orchestra, the Chinese Plucked Instruments Youth Orchestra, the China Music Conservatory Chinese Orchestra, the New Music Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Guangdong Traditional Music Ensemble and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
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All aspects of ergonomics are being considered, such as : Sitting supports for orchestra instruments and keyboard instruments ( adaptable in height and angle of inclination ); endpins, adaptable in shape, length and dimension; chin rests and shoulder pads for stringed instruments; belts, thumb or knee supports for wind and plucked instruments.
