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  2. Gregorian chant - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance music →. v. t. e. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.

  3. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    Elements of art. Elements of art are stylistic features that are included within an art piece to help the artist communicate. [1] The seven most common elements include line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality. [1] [2] When analyzing these intentionally utilized elements, the viewer ...

  4. Igneous rock - Wikipedia

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    Igneous rocks are classified on the basis of texture and composition. Texture refers to the size, shape, and arrangement of the mineral grains or crystals of which the rock is composed. [citation needed] Texture Gabbro specimen showing phaneritic texture, from Rock Creek Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada, California

  5. Normal mapping - Wikipedia

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    Normal mapping used to re-detail simplified meshes. This normal map is encoded in object space. In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a texture mapping technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping.

  6. Loam - Wikipedia

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    Loam (the high-humus definition, not the soil texture definition) may be used for the construction of houses, for example in loam post and beam construction. Building crews can build a layer of loam on the inside of walls, which can help to control air humidity. Loam, combined with straw, can be used as rough construction material to build walls.

  7. Porphyry (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A waterworn cobble of porphyry. Rhyolite porphyry from Colorado; scale bar in lower left is 1 cm (0.39 in) Porphyry ( / ˈpɔːrfəri / POR-fə-ree) is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate -rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass. In its non ...

  8. Fugue - Wikipedia

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    Fugue. In classical music, a fugue ( / fjuːɡ /) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.

  9. Diorite - Wikipedia

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    Diorite ( / ˈdaɪ.əraɪt / DY-ə-ryte) [1] [2] is an intrusive igneous rock formed by the slow cooling underground of magma (molten rock) that has a moderate content of silica and a relatively low content of alkali metals. It is intermediate in composition between low-silica ( mafic) gabbro and high-silica ( felsic) granite .