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Easley Blackwood, Jr. — Easley Blackwood, (born April 21, 1933), the son of Easley Blackwood Sr., is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the… … Wikipedia
Easley Blackwood, Sr. — Easley R. Blackwood (June 25, 1903 March 27, 1992), the father of Easley Blackwood Jr., invented the Blackwood convention used in bidding in contract bridge. From 1968 to 1971 he was executive secretary of the American Contract Bridge League.… … Wikipedia
Blackwood (surname) — Family name name =Blackwood image size= caption= pronunciation = meaning = region = language =English related names = footnotes = Blackwood is a locational Scottish surname meaning black wood . [cite web… … Wikipedia
Blackwood convention — The Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention in contract bridge that was developed by Easley Blackwood Sr. It is used to explore the partnership s possession of aces, kings and (in some cases) the queen of trumps, in order to judge… … Wikipedia
Blackwood Convention — Contract Bridge A system of cue bidding to reach slams, invented by Easley Blackwood … The official rules of card games glossary
Blackwood, Easley — ▪ American composer born April 21, 1933, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. American composer whose music combined rhapsodic and romantic passion with chromatic materials and modified serial techniques. Besides composing for standard ensembles and … Universalium
blackwood convention — ˈblak.ˌwu̇d noun Usage: usually capitalized B Etymology: after Easley F. Blackwood, 20th century American who devised it : a bidding method used in reaching slam contracts in contract bridge and consisting of the use of four no trump as an asking … Useful english dictionary
The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge — 6th edition cover The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (OEB) presents comprehensive information on the card game contract bridge with limited information on related games and on playing cards. It is official in reference to the American Contract… … Wikipedia
Microtonal music — Composer Charles Ives chose the chord above as good possibility for a fundamental chord in the quarter tone scale, akin not to the tonic but to the major chord of traditional tonality.(Boatright 1971, 8 9) … Wikipedia
15 equal temperament — In music, 15 equal temperament, called 15 TET, 15 EDO, or 15 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 15 equally large steps. Each step represents a frequency ratio of 21/15, or 80 cents. Because 15 factors into 3 times 5, it … Wikipedia
