...that
Japanese
taiko drums (pictured) are played with wooden sticks called
bachi?
... that
major-thirds
guitar tuning is a
repetitive tuning in which
chords are raised an octave by shifting all notes by three strings on the same frets?
...that
Frank Zappa won a
Grammy Award for the album
Jazz from Hell, which was composed using, and entirely performed by, the
Synclavier synthesizer?
...that the
Industrial Workers of the World's
Little Red Songbook has helped spread that group’s message?
...that
Kassav' is the most popular band to ever emerge from the islands of
Martinique and
Guadeloupe?
...that the
Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the
British Invasion, with rock bands from
Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in
Argentina?
...that the bass player
Jaco Pastorius was killed by a night club bouncer, after being refused entry to a
Santana concert?
...that Austrian composer
Alban Berg encoded names and messages in his works using the
Twelve-tone technique, and wrote
program music referring to his secret love for
novelist
Franz Werfel's sister?
...that French singer
Alizée's performance of her song
J'en ai marre! was the inspiration of the female
Night Elf dance in
World of Warcraft?
...that, in the 1940s, the female fans of the Soviet tenor
Sergei Lemeshev often quarrelled with the fans of his rival,
Ivan Kozlovsky?
...that an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer
Mikhail Bulgakov was found in
Isaak Dunayevsky's archive after his death in 1955?
...that the symphony said to have been written in 1809 by Ukrainian landowner
Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was later proven to be a hoax?
... that the
Agung, a
Philippine set of
gongs, was repeatedly hit during
earthquakes for it was believed its
supernatural powers would halt the earth's reverberations?
...that the first performance of
Glinka's opera
A Life for the Tsar (1836) was conducted by
Catterino Cavos, who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
...that composer
Veniamin Fleishman was killed at the beginning of the Second World War before he could complete his opera
Rothschild's Violin, but that his teacher
Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad and completed the opera?
...that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired the jazz-guitarist
Ralph Patt to invent
major-thirds tuning?
...that the composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a son,
Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, who was a noted composer himself?
...that the composer
Arnold Schoenberg once said of his music: "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"?
...that according to the
Guinness Book of World Records,
Queen albums have spent more time on the UK album charts than those of any other musical act?
...that
the Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert on August 20, 1966?
...that "
Lady Marmalade" was a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label?
...that
Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that
Jully Black is a Canadian
R&B singer best-known for her Top 40 hit "Rally’n"?
...that Russian composer
Boris Sobinov was abducted from the
Berlin American Zone by the
NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the
Soviet Union?
...that Austrian composer
Alban Berg died from an insect bite that caused blood poisoning?
...that the composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a son,
Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, who was a noted composer himself?
...that the composer
Arnold Schoenberg once said of his music: "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"?
...that according to the
Guinness Book of World Records,
Queen albums have spent more time on the UK album charts than those of any other musical act?
...that
the Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert on August 20, 1966?
...that "
Lady Marmalade" was a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label?
...that
Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that
Jully Black is a Canadian
R&B singer best-known for her Top 40 hit "Rally’n"?
...that Russian composer
Boris Sobinov was abducted from the
Berlin American Zone by the
NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the
Soviet Union?
...that Austrian composer
Alban Berg died from an insect bite that caused blood poisoning?
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...that
Japanese
taiko drums (pictured) are played with wooden sticks called
bachi?
... that
major-thirds
guitar tuning is a
repetitive tuning in which
chords are raised an octave by shifting all notes by three strings on the same frets?
...that
Frank Zappa won a
Grammy Award for the album
Jazz from Hell, which was composed using, and entirely performed by, the
Synclavier synthesizer?
...that the
Industrial Workers of the World's
Little Red Songbook has helped spread that group’s message?
...that
Kassav' is the most popular band to ever emerge from the islands of
Martinique and
Guadeloupe?
...that the
Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the
British Invasion, with rock bands from
Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in
Argentina?
...that the bass player
Jaco Pastorius was killed by a night club bouncer, after being refused entry to a
Santana concert?
...that Austrian composer
Alban Berg encoded names and messages in his works using the
Twelve-tone technique, and wrote
program music referring to his secret love for
novelist
Franz Werfel's sister?
...that French singer
Alizée's performance of her song
J'en ai marre! was the inspiration of the female
Night Elf dance in
World of Warcraft?
...that, in the 1940s, the female fans of the Soviet tenor
Sergei Lemeshev often quarrelled with the fans of his rival,
Ivan Kozlovsky?
...that an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer
Mikhail Bulgakov was found in
Isaak Dunayevsky's archive after his death in 1955?
...that the symphony said to have been written in 1809 by Ukrainian landowner
Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was later proven to be a hoax?
... that the
Agung, a
Philippine set of
gongs, was repeatedly hit during
earthquakes for it was believed its
supernatural powers would halt the earth's reverberations?
...that the first performance of
Glinka's opera
A Life for the Tsar (1836) was conducted by
Catterino Cavos, who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
...that composer
Veniamin Fleishman was killed at the beginning of the Second World War before he could complete his opera
Rothschild's Violin, but that his teacher
Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad and completed the opera?
...that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired the jazz-guitarist
Ralph Patt to invent
major-thirds tuning?
...that the composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a son,
Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, who was a noted composer himself?
...that the composer
Arnold Schoenberg once said of his music: "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"?
...that according to the
Guinness Book of World Records,
Queen albums have spent more time on the UK album charts than those of any other musical act?
...that
the Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert on August 20, 1966?
...that "
Lady Marmalade" was a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label?
...that
Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that
Jully Black is a Canadian
R&B singer best-known for her Top 40 hit "Rally’n"?
...that Russian composer
Boris Sobinov was abducted from the
Berlin American Zone by the
NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the
Soviet Union?
...that Austrian composer
Alban Berg died from an insect bite that caused blood poisoning?
...that the composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a son,
Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, who was a noted composer himself?
...that the composer
Arnold Schoenberg once said of his music: "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played"?
...that according to the
Guinness Book of World Records,
Queen albums have spent more time on the UK album charts than those of any other musical act?
...that
the Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert on August 20, 1966?
...that "
Lady Marmalade" was a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label?
...that
Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that
Jully Black is a Canadian
R&B singer best-known for her Top 40 hit "Rally’n"?
...that Russian composer
Boris Sobinov was abducted from the
Berlin American Zone by the
NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the
Soviet Union?
...that Austrian composer
Alban Berg died from an insect bite that caused blood poisoning?
![]() | This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. DYK section has been automated. |
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This very slow Toolserver query returns a list of talk pages that have been tagged by Wikiproject Music or its sub-projects and have the standard box describing a DYK appearance.
The portal used to display one page for each day of the week. These old pages are accessible though Portal:Music/Did you know