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Page 201
... instruments . Counters . The Geiger counter , the oldest of the cosmic - raydetection instruments , produces an electrical pulse whenever an ionizing particle passes through its gas - filled chamber . Though it played a vital role in ...
... instruments . Counters . The Geiger counter , the oldest of the cosmic - raydetection instruments , produces an electrical pulse whenever an ionizing particle passes through its gas - filled chamber . Though it played a vital role in ...
Page 216
... instruments in opposition to the sounds of a large battery of percussion instruments . This approach probably grew directly out of earlier experiments with polytonality , but here tone colours , rather than keys or tones , are ...
... instruments in opposition to the sounds of a large battery of percussion instruments . This approach probably grew directly out of earlier experiments with polytonality , but here tone colours , rather than keys or tones , are ...
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... instrument becomes almost a soloist , as in a vast chamhence the more tenuous nature of the work of Wagner's ber ... instruments should be predominantly hypersensitive being like Debussy himself — a poet , a lyrical . The pizzicato ...
... instrument becomes almost a soloist , as in a vast chamhence the more tenuous nature of the work of Wagner's ber ... instruments should be predominantly hypersensitive being like Debussy himself — a poet , a lyrical . The pizzicato ...
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