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1999 studio album by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
Ancient Tones is an album by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, released through Skaggs Family Records on January 26, 1999. In 2000, the album won the
Ancient_Tones
Overview of ancient Greek music theory
octave species of thirteen tones (Dorian, Lydian, etc.) can be declined into a system of seven tones by selecting particular tones and semitones to form genera
Musical system of ancient Greece
Musical_system_of_ancient_Greece
Musical interval
which itself is half a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches. Quarter tones have their roots in the music
Quarter_tone
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
other tones. It may cause downstep, or it may combine with other tones to form contours. These are called floating tones. In many contour-tone languages
Tone_(linguistics)
Band that plays with Ricky Skaggs
Rules! 1999 Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Ancient Tones 2000 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Ricky Skaggs
Kentucky_Thunder
Cradle of civilization in North Africa
reddish brown and jet black skin tones. Seti I fighting Libyans, a relief at Karnak. The culture and monuments of ancient Egypt have left a lasting legacy
Ancient_Egypt
vowels and consonants—but also tones, and each syllable has one. In addition to the four main tones, there is a neutral tone that appears on weak syllables
Standard_Chinese_phonology
History of African people in the Roman Empire
with very dark skin tones and tightly-curled hair are depicted in various artistic modes. Other words for people with other skin tones were also used.[citation
Black people in ancient Roman history
Black_people_in_ancient_Roman_history
British composer
Twelve Ancient Tones, Edmund Hart Turpin (Chiswick Press, London, 1879) Accompanying Harmonies to the tones for the Psalms in the twelve ancient church
Edmund_Hart_Turpin
Use in music of microtones (intervals smaller than a semitone)
third tones (18ET) and quarter tones (24ET) most particularly) Giacinto Scelsi (Italy, 1905–1988, intuitive linear tone deviations, quarter tones, eighth
Microtonality
Chinese guqin melody
and others. Its notation first appeared in a Ming dynasty tablature Ancient Tones Authenticated (古音正宗, Gu Yin Zheng Zong)compiled by Zhu Changfang. The
Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank
Wild_Geese_Descending_on_the_Sandbank
Perceived tones when real tones are sounded
types of combination tones: sum tones whose frequencies are found by adding the frequencies of the real tones, and difference tones whose frequencies are
Combination_tone
Attitudes and behaviors towards sex in ancient Rome
Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such
Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome
Language that uses pitch changes for accent
of three tones: high, mid, low. The tones have a contour in isolation, but for the following purposes, it can be ignored. However, low tone always occurs
Pitch-accent_language
Musical interval
lesser tones (or major and minor tones). For instance, this is true for 15-ET, 22-ET, 34-ET, 41-ET, 53-ET, and 72-ET. Conversely, in twelve-tone equal
Major_second
American extraterrestrial visitation television series
Ancient Aliens is an American television series produced by Prometheus Entertainment that explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts
Ancient_Aliens
American country and bluegrass singer, musician and composer (born 1954)
Train 1999 Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Ancient Tones 2000 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Ricky Skaggs
Ricky_Skaggs
Class of music scales with seven notes
is a heptatonic (seven-note) scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps
Diatonic_scale
Question of the race of ancient Egyptians
variable is skin tone. North Africans, we know today, had a range of skin tones, from light to dark. In this case, we selected a medium skin tone, and we say
Ancient Egyptian race controversy
Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy
Musical traditions of ancient Greece
the placement of tones. Modern Western scales use the placement of whole tones, such as C to D on a modern piano keyboard, and half tones, such as C to C-sharp
Music_of_ancient_Greece
System of pitch organization in Gregorian chant
(Mixolydian). The tenor, or dominant (corresponding to the "reciting tone" of the psalm tones), is a fifth above the final of the scale, with the exception of
Gregorian_mode
Type of musical scale
tones, of which four are emphasized in classical music. Another scale, pelog, has seven tones, and is generally played using one of three five-tone subsets
Pentatonic_scale
Phonology of the Cantonese language
non-high-level and non-mid rising tone (i.e. only tones 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Yale and Jyutping romanizations may have changed tones). However, in certain specific
Cantonese_phonology
Ancient Greek musical scale
all three categories of ancient Greek scales (enharmonic, chromatic, and diatonic), and in ancient Greek music, the fixed tones relative pitches were very
Enharmonic_scale
a Journey (Atlantic Records) 1997: Bluegrass Rules! (Rounder) 1999: Ancient Tones (Skaggs Family) 1999: Soldier of the Cross (Skaggs Family) 2014: When
Bryan_Sutton_discography
Capital of early medieval Armenia
capital of early medieval Armenia. It was situated north of the previous ancient capital of Armenia, the city of Artaxata, along the banks of the Metsamor
Dvin_(ancient_city)
Swiss-born TV presenter and producer
He is a ufologist and a promoter of the ancient astronauts hypothesis. He is host and producer of Ancient Aliens, a History Channel series. Tsoukalos
Giorgio_A._Tsoukalos
American musician (1966–2024)
Woman (Bass Mountain Boys) (1998) Southern Flavor (James Price) (1999) Ancient Tones (Ricky Skaggs) (1999) Grass is Blue (Dolly Parton) (1999) Soldier of
Jim_Mills_(banjo_player)
Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult
Ancient_Greek_religion
Social attitudes to nakedness
clothing, and in a number of ancient cultures, the athletic and/or cultist nudity of men and boys was a natural concept. In ancient Greece, nudity became associated
History_of_nudity
Classification in ancient Greek music theory
whole tone as the difference between a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth, and then divides that tone into semitones, third-tones, and quarter tones, to
Genus_(music)
Lange Best Country Album — Fly, Dixie Chicks Best Bluegrass Album — Ancient Tones, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Best Country Male Artist — Paul Brandt
1999_in_country_music
Collection of Hokkien dialects
and [k̚], respectively. There are seven tones: Most people in the urban area do not pronounce the dark level tone as high-level, but slightly mid-rising
Zhangzhou_dialects
Sexuality in ancient Rome
Homosexuality in ancient Rome is a subject of research and scholarly debate. Conceptions of homosexuality in ancient Rome differed from the contemporary
Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome
2000 award ceremony for music
– George Jones Forget About It – Alison Krauss Best Bluegrass Album Ancient Tones – Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza –
42nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards
Austroasiatic language
tones (typically only five). In Vietnamese poetry, tones are classed into two groups: (tone pattern) Words with tones belonging to a particular tone group
Vietnamese_language
Ancient Greek string instrument
string to produce higher tones, while releasing the finger gave the string a greater vibrating length, thereby producing a tone lower in pitch. This is
Lyre
Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
opinions and "philosophical beliefs of ancient Rome and Greece". Rather than writing in harsh or accusing tones, he addressed issues with humor and clever
Satire
Set of melodic formulas, figures, and patterns
simply sets forth a sequence of intervals (in Western music, half tones and whole tones), and from a scale (the notes of a mode in rising order of pitch)
Melody_type
Tones generated by wind passing through or over objects
tone is sound that is produced by wind when it passes over or through objects. Historically, Aeolus was the Greek ruler of the winds, and the Ancient
Aeolian_sound
Type of musical scale and characteristic behaviors
since more than two quarter-tones are never heard in succession." Depending on the positioning (spacing) of the interposed tones in the tetrachords, three
Mode_(music)
Jin Chinese dialect of Shaanxi, China
with a high tone (Chinese: 陰平; pinyin: yīnpíng). Most tones are similar to those spoken in Guanzhong. The Zhi-Yan dialect retains checked tones found in
Zhi-Yan_dialect
Figure of speech referring to a superficial means of appeasement
The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome. University of California Press. p. 8. hdl:2027/mdp.39015049512638. By J. P. Toner full quote at p.69. Erdkamp
Bread_and_circuses
Abugida script for languages spoken in Thailand
Thai is a tonal language, and the script gives full information on the tones. Tones are realised in the vowels, but indicated in the script by a combination
Thai_script
above. In this practice of closely imitating the tones of word accents in the melodies of songs, Ancient Greek resembles many living Asian and African languages
Ancient_Greek_accent
Sino-Tibetan language
tones to distinguish words. A few dialects of north China may have as few as three tones, while some dialects in south China have up to 6 or 12 tones
Chinese_language
Multiple states under one central authority, usually created by conquest
the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, ruled by Thutmose III, was ancient Africa's major force upon incorporating Nubia and the ancient city-states of the
Empire
Mythical ghosts of Hawaiian warriors
battle, carrying spears, clubs, and some are beating war drums and blowing tones from conch shells, to announce the advancing of their march. According to
Nightmarchers
Middle Eastern string instrument
While Armenian kanuns now employ only equidistant half-tones and Arabic qanuns exact quarter-tones as a result, Turkish kanun-makers went so far as dividing
Qanun_(instrument)
Romanization scheme for Standard Chinese
pinyin system also uses four diacritics to mark the tones of Mandarin. In the pinyin system, four main tones of Mandarin are shown by diacritics: ā, á, ǎ, and
Pinyin
Musical mode
diatonic genus, a whole tone (paramese to mese) followed by two conjunct inverted Lydian tetrachords (each being two whole tones followed by a semitone
Mixolydian_mode
Phonology of the Vietnamese language
14 vowel nuclei, and 6 tones that are integral to the interpretation of the language. Older interpretations of Vietnamese tones differentiated between
Vietnamese_phonology
District in Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
as major communication way in daily life. This language retains many ancient tones and words, culture value of research Chinese development is very high
Shangyu,_Shaoxing
2020 video game
generating the highest opening weekend sales for the franchise to date. The Ancient Gods, a two-part standalone campaign DLC set after the events of the main
Doom_Eternal
light skin tones, and Indian cinematographers have used graphics and intense lighting to achieve more "desirable" skin tones. Fair skin tones are advertised
Human_skin_color
1943 film
out of the sky" and refers to a melody sung by a shepherd as Urtöne (ancient tones) which "sleep on forest floors; God knows who found them." The character
Immensee_(film)
1953 jazz music theory book by George Russell
first seven tones on the circle of fifths starting with C, the desired Lydian Tonic. This process would yield C, G, D, A, E, B, F♯. If these tones are voiced
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
Lydian_Chromatic_Concept_of_Tonal_Organization
Interval in music
from Ancient Greek: δίτονος, "of two tones") is the interval of a major third. The size of a ditone varies according to the sizes of the two tones of which
Ditone
Decorative style in ancient Rome
Painting in ancient Rome is a rather poorly understood aspect of Roman art, as there are few survivals, which are mostly wall-paintings from Pompeii,
Painting_in_ancient_Rome
Composed of one color
black and white or, more likely, grayscale, but may also be used aying tones from light tan to dark brown or cyanotype ("blueprint") images, and early
Monochrome
Chinese pronunciation system (601 AD)
even tone, which had the most words, and one volume each for the other tones. The pitch contours of modern reflexes of the four Middle Chinese tones vary
Middle_Chinese
Book by Lewis Henry Morgan
appear to non-speakers be "monosyllabic", use tone to distinguish morphemes, One syllable in different tones has different meanings. No language today is
Ancient_Society
Indonesian traditional musical instruments
two sarons. It is considered an ancient and sacred ensemble, and is used for temple and funeral rites. It uses seven tones. "Sejarah dan Fungsi Gamelan Gambang:
Gamelan_gambang
Observance in Eastern Christianity
service. The Lamentation Praises are chanted to very movingly beautiful ancient tones and words which reflect the lament of the Theotokos over her son Christ
Great_Lent
(historical jargon). Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq)
List_of_ancient_great_powers
Seven-note series in musical notation
(diatonic) scale of seven notes or tones. Most of the ancient greek lyres had 7 strings. Early lyres originate in ancient Mesopotamia. Two intervals are possible:
Heptachord
Afrocentrist group of African Americans
and scholarly understanding that ancient Egypt was a diverse civilization consisting of people of various skin tones and backgrounds, including those
Hoteps
Perceptions of aesthetic standards in the Ancient World
Ancient aesthetics refers to the perception of beauty and form in the ancient world and the importance it was given in many ancient cultures. Aesthetics
Ancient_aesthetics
Hollow formation inside a rock
A geode (/ˈdʒiː.oʊd/; from Ancient Greek γεώδης (geṓdēs) 'earthlike') is a geological secondary formation within sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Geodes
Geode
Mineral, quartz variety
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. Ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication
Amethyst
Serbian-Swedish composer
Messiaen's second mode, however the Ancient Scale has nine tones, with dense half steps around the central tone. The central tone is not 'finalis', neither the
Đuro_Živković
Greek mythology character, daughter of Agenor
In Greek mythology, Europa (/jʊəˈroʊpə, jə-/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, romanized: Eurṓpē; Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) was a Phoenician princess
Europa_(consort_of_Zeus)
Shade of brown derived from the common cuttlefish
the common cuttlefish Sepia. The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word σηπία (sēpía), meaning cuttlefish. Sepia ink was commonly used
Sepia_(color)
Mental state
markedly Christian moral tone. In modern times, it has been taken up by literary figures and connected to depression. In Ancient Greece, acedia originally
Acedia
reading of ancient mythology. In his 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World Bachofen
History_of_human_sexuality
Authentic Gregorian mode
semitones. In the enharmonic genus, it is a major third and two quarter tones. A diatonic-genus octave species built upon D is roughly equivalent to playing
Phrygian_mode
Literature written in the Egyptian language
Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. It represents
Ancient_Egyptian_literature
Ethnolinguistic group native to northern Sudan and southern Egypt
valley. Parts of Nubia, particularly Lower Nubia, were at times part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt and at other times a rival state representing parts of
Nubians
Phonetic notation for Middle Chinese
reading of classic texts. The dictionary divided characters between the four tones, which were subdivided into 193 rhyme groups and then into homophone groups
Karlgren–Li reconstruction of Middle Chinese
Karlgren–Li_reconstruction_of_Middle_Chinese
Political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic
French Revolution and through the First French Republic of 1792–1804. In Ancient Greece, several philosophers and historians analysed and described elements
Republicanism
Northern Tai language of Southern China
six tones, corresponding to the eight sheng of Middle Chinese: all six in open syllables or with a final /n/ or /ŋ/, reduced to two "entering" tones with
Bouyei_language
Phonology of the Hokkien language
Hokkien, there are only 7 distinct citation tones, as some of the 8 traditional tones merge into a single tone. Certain dialects (the Lengna dialect or the
Hokkien_phonology
Soldier who fights for hire
Stephanus of Byzantium recorded the existence of an ancient city called Daedala or Daidala (Ancient Greek: Δαίδαλα) in India, which he described as Indo-Cretan
Mercenary
Arabic music's tones are divided into quarters. The songs of this period were similar in sound and simple, within a small range of tones. Egyptian song
Music_of_Egypt
residents use seven or eight tones. According to a study by Qiu Chunan, the Zhenjiang dialect has five citation tones: Tone 1 (42) (a sharp fall from pitch
Zhenjiang_dialect
Religious interjection
Eight Tones the Alleluia is to be chanted in. The response of the choir is always the same: "Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia." What differs is the tone in which
Hallelujah
Egyptian god of the desert, storms, violence, and foreigners
deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Sēth (Σήθ). Set had a
Set_(deity)
Kra–Dai language of Myanmar
family and is related to Thai. It has five tones, which do not correspond exactly to Thai tones, plus a sixth tone used for emphasis. The term Shan is also
Shan_language
Musical mode
subjects: one of the ancient harmoniai (characteristic melodic behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it); one of another ancient musical modes;
Dorian_mode
Group of eight American universities
athletic conference. At times, they have also been referred to as the "Ancient Eight". The eight members of the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia
Ivy_League
religious leaders while at other times being used as a punitive symbol. Both ancient art and archaeological finds of possible tattoo tools suggest tattooing
History_of_tattooing
Branch of the Chinese language family
Middle Chinese level tone and non-aspirates in other syllables. Of the four tones of Middle Chinese, the level, rising and departing tones have also developed
Mandarin_Chinese
Relationship among tones of the chromatic scale
in flats. Starting at any pitch and ascending by a fifth generates all tones before returning to the beginning pitch class (a pitch class consists of
Circle_of_fifths
Ancient Chinese musical instrument made of bells
0 in) in height and weighs 2.4 kilograms (5.3 lb). Each bell can play two tones with three degrees' interval between them. The tonal range of Zenghouyi
Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng
Bianzhong_of_Marquis_Yi_of_Zeng
Mexican multi-day holiday
ancestral tones. One of these would be the Catholic Día de Muertos which, during the 20th century, appropriated the elements of an ancient pagan rite
Day_of_the_Dead
Fear and dislike of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange
Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos) 'strange, foreign, or alien' and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the fear or dislike of people who are perceived
Xenophobia
Ancient Greek deity and herald of the gods
boxes, or other symbols. Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald
Hermes
System of phonetic notation
level tones, and only two for contour tones. Unicode supports default or high-pitch ⟨ˉ ˊ ˋ ˆ ˇ ˜ ˙⟩ and low-pitch ⟨ˍ ˏ ˎ ꞈ ˬ ˷⟩. Only one mid-pitch tone is
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Device to resolve the plot of a dramatic work
impossible to imagine our taking delight in tragedy; perhaps the conciliatory tones from another world echo most purely in Oedipus at Colonus. Now, once tragedy
Deus_ex_machina
Musical scale set of twelve pitches
and white keys in one octave on the piano—form the chromatic scale. The tones of the chromatic scale (unlike those of the major or minor scale) are all
Chromatic_scale
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Hindu
Name of a star, Well starred, From the Nakshatra Kritika
Boy/Male
German English Teutonic
Friend.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Eternal
Female
Chamoru
, polite speaker.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Greek Baltasar, BALTHASAR means "Ba'al protect the king." Early Christians assigned names to the three Magi ("wise men from the east") who visited the baby Jesus. They are mentioned but not named in the bible; Balthasar is one of them, the other two are Casper and Melchior.Â
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Intelligent
Girl/Female
American, British, English, French, German
Blond Ruler; A Blend of Aubrey and Ana; Rules with Elf-wisdom
Male
Russian
Variant spelling of Russian Prokopiy, PROKOPY means "advance, progress."
Girl/Female
Indian
One of the kauravas, Unconquerable woman, Undefeated or name of a flower
Male
Italian
Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form of Latin Robertus, ROBERTO means "bright fame."
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a.
About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.
n.
The ancients; the people of ancient times.
v. t.
To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
n.
Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
n.
The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
a.
Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).
n.
An ensign or flag.
n.
Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.
n.
The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
n.
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
a.
Over against; as, he lives anent the church.
a.
Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
n.
Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
adv.
In an ancient manner.
a.
Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
adv.
In ancient times.
a.
Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls.
a.
Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
n.
Antiquity; what is ancient.