In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).

Some comparisons of its typology and musical functions with similar instruments throughout the world ".

Cukor had declined to direct the earlier film because it was too similar to his 1932 What Price Hollywood ?, but the opportunity to direct his first Technicolor film, first musical, and work with screenwriter Moss Hart and especially Garland appealed to him, and he accepted.

The koto ( 箏 ) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese zheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese đàn tranh.

With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamalot, Idle announced that he would be giving Life of Brian a similar treatment.

The Beatles developed along similar lines, creating various modernist musical effects on several albums, while musicians such as Frank Zappa, Syd Barrett and Captain Beefheart proved even more experimental.

These are similar in musical structure to the estampies but consensus is divided as to whether these should be considered the same.

A musical act with as few as one or two members, each operating multiple MIDI-enabled devices, can deliver a performance which sounds similar to that of a much larger group of musicians.

This is done in a similar fashion to a musician modulating a tone ( a periodic waveform ) from a musical instrument by varying its volume, timing and pitch.

In 1968, the duo recorded their second album, All Of Us, which featured a similar broad range of musical styles as their first album.

The typical symphony orchestra consists of four proportionate groups of similar musical instruments called the woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.

Their approach was similar to classical music ; each instrument played its own melodic line to generate a grand musical theme.

Buben ( Бубен in Russian, Бубон in Ukrainian, boben in Slovenian, buben in Czech, bęben in Polish ) is a musical instrument of the percussion family similar to a tambourine.

Timbrel or tabret ( the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the deff of Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain ), the principal musical instrument of percussion of the Israelites, similar to the modern tambourine.

The score is made more of musical fragments, similar to the first five games of the Tomb Raider series with less constant music than in Legend.

A number of keyboard musical instruments using constructions similar to tuning forks have been made, the most popular of them being the Rhodes piano, which has hammers hitting constructions working on the same principle as tuning forks and uses electric amplification of the generated sound.

Wild Gift, like their debut album, was released on Slash records, and was similar in musical style, although Wild Gift featured shorter, faster songs ; arguably their most stereotypically punk-sounding record.

From about 1900, the term género ínfimo (" degraded " or " low genre ") was coined to describe an emerging form of entertainment allied to the revista (" revue "): these were musical works similar to the género chico zarzuela but lighter and bolder in their social criticism, with scenes portraying sexual themes and many verbal double entendres.

Gualeguaychú in the east of Entre Ríos province is the most important Carnival city and has one of the largest parades, with a similar afro-American musical background to Brazilian or Uruguayan Carnival.

The first ever true carnival expression of this Brazilian festivity, officially recognized by Carnaval historians in Brazil, took place in Rio de Janeiro, with the " préstitos ", very similar to a musical processions, in 1641, when D. João IV was crowned in Portugal as a King and parties were celebrated in Rio public streets.

These bucolic, nostalgic, home-loving operettas were officially preferred over Berlin-style operettas after 1933, when the Nazis came to power and instituted the Reichsmusikkammer ( State Music Institute ), which deprecated and banned " decadent " music like jazz and similar " foreign " musical forms.

As a musical form, however, the so-called French overture begins with the court ballet and operatic overtures of Jean-Baptiste Lully, which he elaborated from a similar, two-section form called Ouverture, found in the French ballets de cour as early as 1640.

In 1946 Piazzolla formed his, Orquesta Típica, which although having a similar formation to other tango orchestras of the day, gave him his first opportunity to experiment with his own approach to the orchestration and musical content of tango.

During his monologue, he did a musical bit with James Belushi that was similar to the Blues Brothers, but neither Aykroyd nor Belushi donned the famous black suit and sunglasses.

Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.

The cartridge was intended as a pass-through device ( similar to the later Game Genie ).

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

The various services all took on a common interface device, an " i-bar " branded with the BBCi logo, which sought to emphasise the brand across different technologies by providing similar navigation.

Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel are developing a different device called the BioPen, essentially a " Lab-in-a-Pen ", which can detect known biological agents in under 20 minutes using an adaptation of the ELISA, a similar widely employed immunological technique, that in this case incorporates fiber optics.

The concept was similar in principle to the bucket-brigade device ( BBD ), which was developed at Philips Research Labs during the late 1960s.

The concept is similar to the LGH device originally only fired from a rifle, as a plastic retrieval line is attached.

This certainly was a successful device as water clocks of similar design were still being made in Baghdad when the Mongols captured the city in 1258 A. D. A variety of automatic devices have been used over the centuries to accomplish useful tasks or simply to just entertain.

For example, CP / M used a command syntax similar to RT-11's, and even retained the awkward PIP program used to copy data from one computer device to another.

A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.

The Interrotron is a device similar to a teleprompter: Errol and his subject each sit facing a camera.

Transmission electron microscopes function in a manner similar to overhead projector, with a beam of electrons passing through a slice of material then being projected by lenses on a photographic slide or a charge-coupled device.

* Vagus nerve stimulation ( US manufacturer Cyberonics ) consists of a computerized electrical device similar in size, shape and implant location to a heart pacemaker that connects to the vagus nerve in the neck.

* Deep brain stimulation ( US manufacturer Medtronic ) consists of a computerized electrical device implanted in the chest in a manner similar to the VNS, but electrical stimulation is delivered to deep brain structures through depth electrodes implanted through the skull.

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

An injection port is a small disposable device, similar to the infusion set used with an insulin pump, configured to accept a syringe.

It's similar to an interrupt because it causes some work to be done by the device, however the doorbell region is sometimes implemented as a polled region, sometimes the doorbell region writes through to physical device registers, and sometimes the doorbell region is hardwired directly to physical device registers.

The Intellivoice was original in two respects: not only was this capability unique to the Intellivision system at the time ( although a similar device was available for the Odyssey2 ), but the speech-supporting games written for Intellivoice actually made the speech an integral part of the gameplay.

In 1953, Charles Hard Townes and graduate students James P. Gordon and Herbert J. Zeiger produced the first microwave amplifier, a device operating on similar principles to the laser, but amplifying microwave radiation rather than infrared or visible radiation.

The General MIDI ( GM ) standard was established in 1991, and provides a standardized sound bank that allows a Standard MIDI File created on one device to sound similar when played back on another.

The magnet producing a field parallel to the long axis of the device is not shown. A similar magnetron with a different section removed.

Napalm is a thickening / gelling agent generally mixed with petroleum or a similar fuel for use in an incendiary device, primarily as an anti-personnel weapon.