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2. Ornament (music) - Wikipedia

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   Extreme example of ornamentation as a fioritura from Chopin's Nocturne in D ♭ major. In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity ...

3. Pierre-Philippe Choffard - Wikipedia

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   Pygmalion, book vignette from 1770. Pierre-Philippe Choffard (19 March 1731 – 7 March 1809) was a French draughtsman and engraver.. Choffard was born in Paris in 1731. While still very young he showed great aptitude for drawing flowers and ornaments, and was placed with an engraver of maps named Dheulland, but he afterwards received lessons from Babel, an engraver of ornaments, and is said ...

4. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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   The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin) [1] is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. [1] It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale steps below the marked note and "slide" upward—that is, move stepwise diatonically between the initial and ...

5. Hubertus Quellinus - Wikipedia

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   Hubertus Quellinus was born in Antwerp on 15 August 1619 as the son of Erasmus Quellinus the Elder and Elisabeth van Uden. His family was a family of sculptors and painters which included, amongst others, his father and his brothers, the Rubens pupil Erasmus Quellinus the Younger and the prominent sculptor Artus Quellinus the Elder. [1]

6. Hairwork - Wikipedia

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   Though hairwork had gone out of fashion more than a half century earlier around Europe, the people of Våmhus (where much hairwork was created) began to realize what a treasure the knowledge of the trade was.

7. Proposed Illyrian vocabulary - Wikipedia

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   This article contains information about Illyrian vocabulary. No Illyrian texts survive, so sources for identifying Illyrian words have been identified by Hans Krahe [1] as being of four kinds: inscriptions, glosses of Illyrian words in classical texts, names—including proper names (mostly inscribed on tombstones), toponyms and river names—and Illyrian loanwords in other languages.