Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectroscope successfully scanned a tiny dot in the solar disc. Liller stated that the information which the instrument relayed back to earth would be correlated and released in the near future...
...instrument will circle the earth aboard an observatory satellite, OSO II, which will collect data on the sun in two ways. First, it will again concentrate on a small dot in the center of the sun. It will also scan the entire disc of the sun in alternating east-to-west and north-to-south directions. Each complete scan will take about four and one-half minutes...
Bechtold was therefore forced to use the Instrument Landing System alone...
...midi d'un Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began to understand that Debussy was attempting something new in opera; by reducing the vocal parts to declamation-close...
...Apostles. At the mention of God's name he sank into a swoon of adoration and could not be wakened by blows, by needles stuck into his limbs, by live coals held against his flesh. Soon he was little more than a holy idiot; yet through this simple instrument, like lightning through a kitestring, a mysterious energy...