Music appreciation

In North America, music appreciation courses often focus on Western art music, commonly called “Classical music“. Usually music appreciation classes involve some history lessons to explain why people of a certain era liked the music that they did. “Appreciation,” in this context, means the understanding of the value and merit of different styles of music. Music appreciation classes also typically include information about the composers, the instruments and ensembles, and the different styles of music from an era. Music appreciation courses are widely available in universities and colleges. Typically, these courses are designed for non-music majors. A significant part of music appreciation courses is listening to recordings of musical pieces or excerpts from pieces such as symphonies, opera arias and concertos. In some music appreciation classes, the class may go out to hear a live musical performance by an orchestra or chamber music group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_appreciation

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Classical Music Forums – Talk Classical

Lyric Coloratura Soprano: Beverly Sills, Natalie Dessay, Lily Pons,
Dramatic Coloratura Soprano: Joan Sutherland, Edda Moser, Rita Shane
Light Lyric Soprano: Annick Massis, Dawn Upshaw, Barbara Bonney,
Full Lyric Soprano: Anna Moffo, Renee Fleming, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kiri Te Kanawa
Spinto Soprano: Martina Arroyo, Leontyne Price, Sondra Radvanovsky, Renata Tebaldi
Dramatic Soprano: Ghena Dmitrova, Kirsten Flagstad, Helen Traubel, Eva Marton

coloratura mezzo: Joyce di Donato, Cecilia Bartoli, Malena Ernman
lyric mezzo: Janet Baker, Jennifer Larmore, Elina Garanca
dramatic mezzo: Elena Obraztsova, Viorica Cortez, Dolora Zajick, Milla Edelman

contralto: Ewa Podles, Maureen Forrester, Kathleen Ferrier, Marian Anderson

tenor leggiero: Juan Diego Flores, Rockwell Blake, John McCormick
lyric tenor: Luciano Pavarotti, Nicolai Gedda, Giuseppe di Stefano, Jussi Bjorling
spinto tenor: Jonas Kaufmann, Franco Corelli, Anatoly Solovyanenko, John Alexander
dramatic tenor: Mario del Monaco, Giuseppe Giacomini, Enrico Caruso,

lyric baritone: Herman Prey, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Mattei, Thomas Allen
dramatic baritone: Tito Gobbi, Cornel Macneil, Mykola Kondratyuk, Nicolae Herlea

bass-baritone: Byrn Terfel, Willard White, Hans Hotter, Ilabrando D’arcangelo
basso cantante: Samuel Ramey, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Jerome Hines
basso profondo: Paul Robeson, Boris Shtokolov, Boris Christoff

https://www.talkclassical.com/38991-lyric-vs-dramatic-voices-2.html

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A command to list all users? And how to add, delete, modify users?

Some more useful user-management commands (also limited to local users):

To add a new user you can use:

sudo adduser new_username

or:

sudo useradd new_username

See also: What is the difference between adduser and useradd?

To remove/delete a user, first you can use:

sudo userdel username

Then you may want to delete the home directory for the deleted user account :

sudo rm -r /home/username

(Please use with caution the above command!)

To modify the username of a user:

usermod -l new_username old_username

To change the password for a user:

sudo passwd username

To change the shell for a user:

sudo chsh username

To change the details for a user (for example real name):

sudo chfn username

And, of course, see also: man adduser, man useradd, man userdel… and so on.

To add a user to the sudo group:

usermod -aG sudo username

Source: A command to list all users? And how to add, delete, modify users? – Ask Ubuntu

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Tempo

Larghissimo – very, very slow (24 bpm and under)
Adagissimo – very slowly
Grave – very slow (25–45 bpm)
Largo – broadly (40–60 bpm)
Lento – slowly (45–60 bpm)
Larghetto – rather broadly (60–66 bpm)
Adagio – slowly with great expression[8] (66–76 bpm)
Adagietto – slower than andante (72–76 bpm) or slightly faster than adagio (70–80 bpm)
Andante – at a walking pace (76–108 bpm)
Andantino – slightly faster than andante (although, in some cases, it can be taken to mean slightly slower than andante) (80–108 bpm)
Marcia moderato – moderately, in the manner of a march[9][10] (83–85 bpm)
Andante moderato – between andante and moderato (thus the name) (92–112 bpm)
Moderato – at a moderate speed (108–120 bpm)
Allegretto – by the mid 19th century, moderately fast (112–120 bpm); see paragraph above for earlier usage
Allegro moderato – close to, but not quite allegro (116–120 bpm)
Allegro – fast, quickly, and bright (120–156 bpm) (molto allegro is slightly faster than allegro, but always in its range)
Vivace – lively and fast (156–176 bpm)
Vivacissimo – very fast and lively (172–176 bpm)
Allegrissimo or Allegro vivace – very fast (172–176 bpm)
Presto – very, very fast (168–200 bpm)
Prestissimo – even faster than presto (200 bpm and over)
Source: Tempo – Wikipedia

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virtualbox – How to change UUID in virtual box

The following worked for me:

  1. run VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid “VDI/VMDK file” twice (the first time is just to conveniently generate an UUID, you could use any other UUID generation method instead)
  2. open the .vbox file in a text editor
  3. replace the UUID found in Machine uuid=”{…}” with the UUID you got when you ran sethduuid the first time
  4. replace the UUID found in HardDisk uuid=”{…}” and in Image uuid=”{}” (towards the end) with the UUID you got when you ran sethduuid the second time

Source: virtualbox – How to change UUID in virtual box – Stack Overflow

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Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n

This could better be done as

x=”\n”
echo -ne $x

-e option will interpret backslahes for the escape sequence
-n option will remove the trailing newline in the output

PS: the command echo has an effect of always including a trailing newline in the output so -n is required to turn that thing off (and make it less confusing)

This could better be done as x=”\n” echo -ne $x -e option will interpret backslahes for the escape sequence -n option will remove the trailing newline in the output PS: the command echo has an effect of always including a trailing newline in the output so -n is required to turn that thing off (and make it less confusing)

Source: Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n – Stack Overflow

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read Man Page – Linux

ead

Read one line from the standard input, (or from a file) and assign the word(s) to variable name(s).

Syntax
read [-ers] [-a aname] [-p prompt] [-t timeout] [-n nchars] [-d delim] [name…]

Key
-a aname
The words are assigned to sequential indices of the array variable aname, starting at 0.
aname is unset before any new values are assigned. Other name arguments are ignored.

-d delim
The first character of delim is used to terminate the input line, rather than newline.

-e If the standard input is coming from a terminal, readline is used to obtain the line.

-n nchars
read returns after reading nchars characters rather than waiting for a complete line of
input.
-p prompt
Display prompt on standard error, without a trailing newline, before attempting to read
any input. The prompt is displayed only if input is coming from a terminal.

-r Backslash does not act as an escape character. The backslash is considered to be part
of the line. In particular, a backslash-newline pair can not be used as a line continuation.

-s Silent mode. If input is coming from a terminal, characters are not echoed.

-t timeout
Cause read to time out and return failure if a complete line of input is not read
within timeout seconds. This option has no effect if read is not reading input from
the terminal or a pipe.

-u fd Read input from file descriptor fd.

This is a BASH shell builtin, to display your local syntax from the bash prompt type: help [r]ead

One line is read from the standard input, and the first word is assigned to the first name, the second word to the second name, and so on, with leftover words and their intervening separators assigned to the last name.

If there are fewer words read from the standard input than names, the remaining names are assigned empty values.

The characters in the value of the IFS variable are used to split the line into words.

The backslash character `\’ can be used to remove any special meaning for the next character read and for line continuation.

If no names are supplied, the line read is assigned to the variable REPLY. The return code is zero, unless end-of-file is encountered or read times out.

Examples

#!/bin/bash
read var_year
echo “The year is: $var_year”

echo -n “Enter your name and press [ENTER]: ”
read var_name
echo “Your name is: $var_name”

Source: read Man Page – Linux – SS64.com

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terminal + ssh doesn’t display UTF correctly – Ask Ubuntu

I have a remote server, to which I connect via SSH.

On separate Mac OS and Gentoo computers, when I connect to this server, unicode works fine. On my brand new Ubuntu installation, I don’t see unicode on this server correctly and I can’t seem to insert them correctly either.

I have a file with a letter “ž”. When I less it locally, on Ubuntu, in Terminal, I see correct “ž”. When I less the same file on the aforementioned server via SSH, I see just – both in Terminal and xterm.

locale on the server shows me this

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_NUMERIC=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_TIME=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_MONETARY=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_PAPER=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_NAME=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Terminal has UTF8 encoding (and as I wrote, the unicode file is opened correctly when opened locally).

What can be wrong?
ssh gnome-terminal unicode
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This answer to a similar question helped

https://askubuntu.com/a/144448/9685

Commenting out SendEnv LANG LC_* in the local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file fixed everything.
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